i'm just trying to highlight some important factors beyond debt ratios that tell the story of an economy and quality of life for its participants: education lev

i'm just trying to highlight some important factors beyond debt ratios that tell the story of an economy and quality of life for its participants: education levels, trade policy, portability and reliability of health insurance, population growth trends, murder rates, etc. we are "the new Japan" in only a very rough sense. i guess we might say we're the new Italy and the new Portugal and the new France, too? IDK.