美国经济二战后债务/GDP比率要高得多，但经济增长也快得多，如今的比率低于任何其他主要工业化国家（大约只有希腊的一半，用它来作类比是荒谬的，极易引人入歧途 ） 。
The US economy grew rapidly for several years after WWII with a higher debt/GDP ratio, and today’s ratio is lower than in all other major industrial countries (and roughly half that of Greece, analogies to which are absurd and misleading).