Governments around the world owe trillions of dollars, yet they continue to function, grow their economies, and provide public services. To many people, this seems impossible. If an individual carried this level of debt, bankruptcy would be inevitable. However, governments operate under a fundamentally different financial system. Understanding how government debt works helps explain why large debt levels are not automatically a crisis and why comparisons to household debt are

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