It's ironic that the recent government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis came at a time when America's debt situation is improving. Over the next decade, a combination of faster GDP growth and only a gradual rise in interest rates will contain the debt problem. Solving the long-term issue, however, will probably require a combination of austerity, financial repression and perhaps inflation.
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