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by Diederich 2203 days ago
This is all true and on target. Comparing US federal debt to personal debt beyond anything but the most surface level is inappropriate.

Another class of entities that have a kind of 'forever debt' are large corporations. In general, they never want to be debt free. As I said elsewhere, it's about the percentages and trends.

To be clear: even this comparison has weaknesses. Indeed, US federal debt truly has no direct parallels.