Eli5 Can someone explain national debt to me? What is public debt?

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Is public debt the money the government owes us (the citizens) or ?

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Search the sub. Comes up every week. In short it’s the way to fund public spending when it’s over the revenue collected. Usually it’s owed to institutional investors like banks, funds and insurance companies , and less to individual citizens . Ultimately it is being paid off by the future tax payers.

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