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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (421559)7/1/2003 9:04:41 PM
From: Peter O'Brien  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
And, if you want to talk about total debt:

At the end of WW2:
total debt was 120% of GDP
(i.e., 1.2x the size of the economy at that time)

Today:
total debt is about 60% of GDP
(only half of the level at the end of WW2,
when normalized for the size of today's economy)
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