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by akgerber 4805 days ago
Note the phrase "associated" in the excerpt: "They, too, find lower growth associated with periods when debt is over 90%"

This episode emphasizes that the original study found no causality; one would expect a country with low growth to need to rely more on debt and less on tax revenues to fund government, especially if expenditures were planned based on a higher-growth scenario.