Expert decries U.S. debt surpassing 35 trillion USD "unhealthy"

ISTANBUL, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. federal government's public debt has surged beyond 35 trillion U.S. dollars for the first time, a threshold that an expert has described as a sign of problematic borrowing.

Sant Manukyan, an analyst at Is Yatirim, the investment banking division of Isbank Group in Istanbul, told Xinhua that this borrowing does not benefit the economy and is far from healthy.

"If this