text:  Over the period, the consumer added over $5 trillion in debt, businesses added over $8 trillion, and our government added over $25 trillion, really the result of big deficit spending since then. So the economy needs to go through its fiscal transition, wherein each participant, the consumer, businesses, and our government manage higher debt costs and perhaps rein in debt levels. And recently, the Congressional Budget Office did provide updated data on the fiscal year 2024 budget. What did we learn?