The National Debt and You: What it Is, How it Works, and Why it Matters

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

About The Book

In this short book, the Libertarian Institute's Joseph Solis-Mullen takes readers behind the headlines to the nuts and bolts of the national debt, detailing what the debt consists of, how the debt is originated, bought, and sold, and why this mounting fiscal liability matters. Beyond this, he provides a primer on understanding Federal Reserve jargon, a history of money and banking in the United States since World War II, and a review of several recent works that attempt to provide templates for reforms to the present system.

About the author

Author of The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger, Joseph Solis-Mullen is a political scientist, economist, and Ralph Raico Fellow at the Libertarian Institute. A graduate of Spring Arbor University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Missouri, his work can be found at the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Libertarian Institute, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Journal of the American Revolution, and Antiwar.com. You can contact him via joseph@libertarianinstitute.org or find him on Twitter @solis_mullen.
Joseph Solis-Mullen

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