{"id":6660,"date":"2017-05-05T19:31:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T19:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/05\/the-debt-ceiling-crisis\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:56:52","slug":"the-debt-ceiling-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-debt-ceiling-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The debt ceiling &#8216;crisis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Associate Economics Professor Jason Jones answers the question &#8220;when is a crisis really a crisis?&#8221; in a piece he wrote for <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirabelsmagazinecentral.com\/DigitalEdition\/index.html?id=a7a9a91b-5410-4869-9f00-c017c88f1716\">Greenville Business Magazine<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(see page 11).\u00a0Jones unpacks the so-called debt ceiling &#8220;crisis&#8221; by identifying where the bulk of U.S. debt originates, and he offers an historical perspective on the U.S. debt to GDP ratio. Jones proffers a way to avert a looming disaster, but for now, he\u00a0says the debt ceiling debate &#8220;has done nothing to address the real issues surrounding our national debt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Associate Economics Professor Jason Jones answers the question &#8220;when is a crisis really a crisis?&#8221; in a piece he wrote for Greenville Business Magazine\u00a0(see page 11).\u00a0Jones unpacks the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-economics","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}