Centuries of Financial Folly, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff use historical data from 66 countries between 181

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enue sufficient to support entitlement spending + interest payments until ZOG0E — 35 years later than current projection. Note: *Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff observed from 3,700 historical annual data points from 44 countries that the relationship between government debt and real GDP growth is weak for de