Carmen M. Reinhart, Columnist

Of Debt, Growth, Interest Rates and History

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The blog of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently featured a chart plotting the U.K.’s ratio of government debt to gross domestic product against the nominal yield on long-term government bonds from about 1700 to the present. See Figure 1.

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