Understanding the national debt and the risks of a fiscal crisis

What are the sources of the unprecedented rise in U.S. government debt? Join The Journalist’s Resource and EconoFact, a non-partisan website from Tufts University, on July 14 at noon ET to find out.

Tune in to learn:

• What are the sources of the rise in U.S. federal debt?
• How was high debt brought down after World War II and are there lessons for today from that experience?
• How do higher debt, interest rates, and the structure of debt maturity affect the interest burden of the debt?
• How does high debt tie the government’s hands and limit its ability to address challenges?
• Does high debt lead to inflation?
• How and when does a fiscal problem become a fiscal crisis, and what happens then?