Bellingham talk: Government debt continues to weigh heavily as economy moves forward

Is rising government debt putting countries like the United States in the danger zone?

It's a topic Dennis Murphy tackled at the Northwest Business Club meeting Wednesday, May 9, in Bellingham. Murphy, an economics professor at Western Washington University and dean emeritus at the College of Business and Economics, is a longtime local speaker who has the ability to take a complex topic, show the data, then boil it down to information that everyone can understand.