'I think the point here is if you weren't worried before about the debt before, you should be - and if you were worried before, you should be even more worried,' Zidar said.
Bond prices also fell sharply, sending their yields higher, after a report showed inflation decelerated only to 8.3% in August, instead of the 8.1% economists expected.
And while President Joe Biden has touted his administration's deficit reduction efforts this year and recently signed the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which attempts to tame 40-year high price increases caused by a variety of economic factors, economists say the latest debt numbers are a cause for concern.
"I think the point here is if you weren't worried before about the debt before, you should be - and if you were worried before, you should be even more worried," Zidar said. In full, this year's deficit will decline by $1.7 trillion, representing the single largest decline in the federal deficit in American history, the Office of Management and Budget said in August.
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