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FWIW:
Service of the federal debt as a percentage of GDP in 1990 was 4.6%. Service of the federal debt as a percentage of GDP in 2010 (20 years later) is 2.7%.
This is the historic low for the U.S.
Is this supposed to mean something. The Fed is buying up Fed debt at a record rate and has kept interest rates at historic lows.
Another way to look at it is that our deficit is running about $1.6 trillion, if interest rates were close to normal the deficit would be about $2 trillion.