Thread: U.S. Debt
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Old 05-13-2003, 08:17 PM   #4
smoothmoniker
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it's not really fair to compare government debt to consumer debt. It's more in line with corporate debt, where it would not be at all unusual for a corporation, even a large and well established corporation, to owe as much as 80 or 90% of it operating capital in debt.

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