{"id":57719,"date":"2021-12-31T20:41:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T00:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=57719"},"modified":"2022-01-09T20:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T00:45:19","slug":"is-national-debt-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/is-national-debt-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Is National Debt a Problem? Don\u2019t Believe the Hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is national debt a problem in the United States? Why does Stephanie Kelton believe that government officials are promoting debt hysteria?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephanie Kelton is an economist, a believer of modern monetary theory, and the controversial author of <em>The Deficit Myth. <\/em>In her book, she argues that there is no threat from the national debt and that conversations surrounding the United States debt are full of fearmongering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continue reading to learn why Kelton thinks the United States could wipe its debt at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-there-s-no-threat-from-the-national-debt\"><strong>There\u2019s No Threat From the National Debt<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephanie Kelton writes that <strong>fearmongering about the U.S. national debt has long been a staple of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/political-discourse\/\">political discourse<\/a>. <\/strong>Politicians from both major parties seem to be constantly hyping the danger from the debt\u2014that it threatens to eat us alive with escalating borrowing costs, that it constitutes a mortgaging of the country\u2019s future, and that we\u2019ll never be able to pay it back without either significant tax increases (Democrats\u2019 preferred solution) or massive budget cuts (Republicans\u2019 preferred solution).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Kelton argues that this debt hysteria is both factually wrong and counterproductive for the nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/health-of-an-economy\/\">economic health<\/a>. In reality, the national debt poses no threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Is the Debt-to-GDP Ratio a Threat to the Economy?<\/strong><br><br>Is national debt and its ratio to GDP a problem? Many economists have argued that the threat from the national debt <em>is <\/em>very real, and can even be precisely quantified. In a famous 2010 paper, Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff argued that <a href=\"https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1\/11129154\/Reinhart_Rogoff_Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt_2010.pdf?sequence=1\">there was a specific threshold of debt-to-GDP above which a nation\u2019s economy would begin to stagnate<\/a>. They were particularly focused on the portion of the national debt owed to foreign creditors. Reinhart and Rogoff argued that once a nation\u2019s debt-to-GDP ratio reach 60%, it could expect to see annual growth decline by 2%. Once it reached 90%, that country\u2019s expected GDP growth would be cut in half\u2014although it\u2019s worth noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/GFDEGDQ188S\">the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio in 2021 stood at 125%<\/a> and has consistently been over 90% for over a decade, and nothing like what Reinhart and Rogoff predict has come to pass.<br><br>The Reinhart-Rogoff theory exerted significant influence over the policy views and actions of center-right governments during the 2010s, who claimed that social spending needed to be slashed in order to bring the debt ratio under control and avoid economic stagnation.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-u-s-debt-the-cornerstone-of-global-finance\"><strong>U.S. Debt: The Cornerstone of Global Finance<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelton notes that American national debt is created through the sale of U.S. Treasury bonds. Because the federal government can never default on these bonds (because it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/monetary-sovereignty\/\">monetary sovereignty<\/a> that enables it to always create the dollars it needs to make the interest payments), they are considered risk-free securities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, <strong>Treasuries are the backbone of the global financial system, used as a hedge against riskier investments<\/strong> by banks, insurance companies, states, foreign governments, pension funds, and private individuals. Thus, every dollar of U.S. debt represents a corresponding asset held by someone else. To put it another way, measures of the national <em>debt <\/em>are really just measures of national <em>savings <\/em>held by the private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, Kelton argues that if the U.S. government <em>were <\/em>to actually retire the debt in full (which it could do at any time by simply creating new reserves of dollars), it would in effect eliminate the global market for U.S. securities. <strong>This would likely have the effect of destabilizing the entire global financial system by eliminating all those interest payments<\/strong>, having a net effect of taking money <em>out <\/em>of the economy. Worse, without marketable debt securities, the Fed would have no tool to set interest rates\u2014it would not have them to buy or sell to banks to create or subtract new reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>The Threat of Life After Debt<\/strong><br><br>Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. federal government was experiencing fiscal surpluses, policymakers did indeed worry about precisely what Kelton warned about\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2011\/10\/secret-government-report-what-if-the-us-paid-off-all-its-debt\/247094\/\">that the government would eliminate the outstanding national debt by 2012<\/a>, leading to a world in which international investors had no place to make low-risk investments. In 2000, the government actually drafted a report called \u201cLife After Debt,\u201d in which it warned of the potentially destabilizing financial consequences of a global economy without a market for U.S. Treasuries. The authors of this report noted in particular that there would be no place for surpluses from the Social Security Trust Fund to be safely invested (potentially diminishing future benefits), nor would there be any way to determine home mortgage rates, since these are also tied to long-term federal debt.&nbsp;<br><br>Of course, these fears of a debt-free America did not come to pass\u2014by 2012, the country would experience two overseas wars, large tax cuts, new social spending, and two recessions that would put the federal government\u2019s books solidly back in the red.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is national debt a problem in the United States? Why does Stephanie Kelton believe that government officials are promoting debt hysteria? Stephanie Kelton is an economist, a believer of modern monetary theory, and the controversial author of The Deficit Myth. In her book, she argues that there is no threat from the national debt and that conversations surrounding the United States debt are full of fearmongering. 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