public debt
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Senegal's public debt is alarming, although similar situations have played out elsewhere in Africa.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Suppose the sovereign remains solvent and its debt remains safe. Can a larger stock of safe public debt nevertheless become a drag on aggregate demand?”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Treasurys toward alternative assets amid uncertainty clouding the fixed income market and growing concerns about the sustainability of U.S. public debt, XS.com senior market analyst Samer Hasn says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The country’s “total public debt outstanding” officially hit $40.047 trillion, the Treasury Department reported—a threshold that carries symbolic weight but isn’t, by itself, economically significant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The public debt had doubled in the ten years between 1860 and 1870 and now reached the enormous figure of over forty million dollars, nearly $150 for each inhabitant in the country.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
