{"id":291065,"date":"2026-01-18T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/291065\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:14:08","slug":"national-debt-is-already-killing-the-american-dream-says-economist-kurt-couchman-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/291065\/","title":{"rendered":"National debt is already killing the American Dream, says economist Kurt Couchman – Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. National debt is already killing the American Dream, says economist Kurt Couchman<\/a>  Fortune<\/li>\n
  2. US debt: Deficits inflate profits and stocks, so reducing red ink could trigger a financial crisis<\/a>  Fortune<\/li>\n
  3. America\u2019s $38 trillion national debt is so big the nearly $1 trillion interest payment will be larger than Medicare soon<\/a>  Fortune<\/li>\n
  4. Opinion | Forget Venezuela and Greenland \u2013 here is the real trillion-dollar question<\/a>  South China Morning Post<\/li>\n
  5. As U.S. debt soars past $38 trillion, the flood of corporate bonds is a growing threat to the Treasury supply<\/a>  Fortune<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National debt is already killing the American Dream, says economist Kurt Couchman  Fortune US debt: Deficits inflate profits and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,6046,356,18,7034,27270,19,17,51081],"class_list":{"0":"post-291065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-debt","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-government-debt","13":"tag-government-spending","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-national-debt"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115916994480873669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}