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> one of the lowest rates of family formation, and a high rate of suicide among young people

Which is comparable with South Korea.

And looks to be tied to poor work-life balance, lack of workplace flexibility, lack of parental leave, high cost of living etc rather that macro-enonomic issues like debt levels.

They're talking about the US Fed, aka the US debt, and now you're talking about Japan.

Anyway lets be real, the reason why sudden think pieces on the debt are coming out is that it's going to be election season soon, and a Democrat is the incumbent.

OP was talking about Japan having 220% public debt to GDP - which is what I was responding to.

Red Team and Blue Team both pearl clutch about the national debt when it is politically expedient for them to do so. Remember all the hullabaloo about the national debt clock back when it needed an extra digit around 2008?

What does that have to do with the debt?