Economics 311: Government Debt and Deficits
For interest:
Fiscal sustainability: A Primer, Cecchetti and Schoenholtz, July 2, 2018 (This is a nice guide to the math.)
Great balance budgeting game: Fiscal Ship
Federal Budget Basics- Brookings Institution, June 1, 2016
A 100% debt/GDP ratio means nothing! (Robert Shiller, Slate, July 21, 2011)
Greek government bonds are seeing their interest rates jump around
Thomas Sargent's 2012 Nobel Prize lecture
Steve Colbert on the Reinhart-Rogoff 90% Debt/GDP theshold (April 23, 2013)
Graphs of the history of US government debt levels
Tax revenues move with the strength of the economy (Slate, July 13, 2010)
Higher marginal tax rates don't seem to have an observable effect on RGDP growth. (Elliot Spitzer, Slate, Feb. 23, 2010)
Who is buying all of these US government bonds? (James Hamilton, July 11, 2010)
Bugs Bunny selling US Treasury bonds during WWII
England had trouble selling the debt it needed to finance World War I...and things go interesting, and secretive.
Then things got bad for the English economy.