Debts and Debt ceiling are the talk of the hour. Debt ceiling measures the amount of debt that the Government of a country can afford at any given point of time. The amount is like an upper limit and the country at any point of time cannot afford to go beyond this. Even lingering somewhere close to the debt ceiling limit is not a good sign for the financial state of a country.
The debt ceiling limit is not a static value and is usually increased when the total debt comes closer to this value. The real cause of worry in this case is the fact that it has already been raised seven times in the last 8 years for U.S. The whole purpose of debt ceiling is to ensure that the debts for the country don’t go beyond limits and debt ceiling is used as a technique to curb and control this. For a country like U.S where the current outstanding is $14.3 trillion is giving a shocking picture of the effect it can have on the economic growth of the Country and the market which is entirely dependent on it. The results of an increasing debt are not known completely but this can bring undesirable results like inflation, higher interest rates. This can also result in the dollar being replaced as the reserve currency.
The increasing debts directly affect the value of the dollar and continuously increasing the upper limit of the debts will not help in any way. This would indirectly mean that there is no acceptance of the current situation and the debt ceiling limits have been increased to portray that the country is still within its limits. Rather, a country should be taking proactive measures to accept the situation and find ways to bring it below the bars.