ECO 372 Principles of Macroeconomics Week 5 Assignment

National Debt Paper

Discuss within your Learning Team the size of the U.S. federal government's national debt and why it continues to grow each year.  Identify potential problems for future generations associated with the debt.  Describe measures that need to be taken to balance the budget and start to shrink the size of the debt.  How are these measures likely to affect the economy?

Write a 750- to 950-word paper summarizing the results.