national debt

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With Venezuela saddled with about $160 billion in outstanding national debts, she also put a high priority on reintegrating into the global capitalist order that her government had long shunned.

From The Wall Street Journal

As the government paid down national debt and stored up cash, its ability to fill future gaps in the Social Security trust funds’ budget was becoming that much greater.

From MarketWatch

“Hamilton understood that if you put the national debt together, you create an America,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal

He believes Beijing is keen to collect taxes "wherever it can" as it battles a housing market slump and growing national debt.

From BBC

In January of 2001, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the budget surpluses of President Bill Clinton’s second term would continue throughout the next decade, totaling $5.6 trillion and erasing the national debt.

From The Wall Street Journal