Although ballots are being cast and the field is narrowing, voters still don't know a lot about what the presidential candidates would do in the White House. This is especially true when it comes to the national debt.
One of the biggest challenges the next president will face is the soaring increase in budget deficits. The Congressional Budget Office recently forecast that deficits will return to the $1 trillion level by 2022 and continue growing indefinitely. The end of the era of declining deficits means that the national debt, already higher than it's ever been (with the exception of...