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Nothing about the real world of war, famine, politics, unless someone famous was caught doing something they shouldn't, with someone they wouldn't, in a place their mother would be shocked to find them.
BBC: A Hamster ate my Granny!
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Bond investors have lost comparable sums only as a result of big wars or big inflations or both (such as during and after the first world war, or between the second world war and 1981, when real bond returns fell by 66%).
ECONOMIST: Buttonwood
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The data only go back to 1955 but I am betting the real burden in 1990s was on par with the burden right after World War II, when the US government also ran a surplus on the back of high taxes and declining military expenditure.
FORBES: How Heavy Is the Federal Debt