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Angus King: “If interest rates go to anything close to historic levels--call it 5 percent; in 2000 it was 6 percent--we are talking…”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2014
If interest rates go to anything close to historic levels--call it 5 percent; in 2000 it was 6 percent--we are talking about $850 billion a year just to pay interest.
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Angus King
Independent · Maine

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Senator King warns about the financial burden of rising interest rates on national debt.

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