Between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, trillions of dollars have been poured into extra government spending ostensibly in response to the pandemic. Even aside from concern about inflation, one wonders whether this will have pushed America’s dire fiscal condition over the edge toward catastrophe.

A new report from the Mercatus Institute offers only the cold comfort that recent profligacy has not brought on disaster only because we were heading for disaster decades before that.

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