What will happen if the US debt continues to increase?

Will anything happen when the United States national debt hits $20 trillion or $30 ... In fact, debt can and likely will continue going up forever in dollar-value terms. ... What would be unsustainable would be if debt were increasing forever in ...

Congress is running up against a deadline to raise the debt ceiling, ... And what happens if the U.S. hits it? ... He predicts if the debt ceiling's not increased, the government will run out of cash somewhere between November 10 and 19. ... fails to raise the debt limit, the government would likely continue to ...

As the U.S. approaches the deadline to raise its debt limit, ... The government must be able to issue new debt as long as it continues to run a budget deficit. ... If Congress does not act to raise the debt limit despite such ...

With U.S. economic growth still below 3 percent, it wouldn't take that ... "If the Treasury and related securities were in default, one does not know ...

U.S. government debt is, after all, supposed to be the safest ... invoke the 14th Amendment and simply continue paying our debts. That doesn't mean, warned Bell, that it won't happen. But if it does, those payments will go out under a cloud of ... The damage to the economy now would increase the deficit, as ...

Publicly held debt in the United States will exceed 76 percent of gross ... and thus reduce the continued buildup of debt and the expected harmful ... which 20 lasted for more than a decade, the research shows that even if such ...

Even as deficits have fallen, debt has continued to rise, more than doubling as a percent ... Deficits Fell From Record Levels But Will Rise Again.