Considerable (but not definitive) evidence indicates that national debts beyond 90% of nations' economies harm economic growth. Many media outlets have reported on a 2013 paper that supposedly disproved this, but it actually showed what previous studies had found: economic growth typically declines by about 30% when government debt exceeds 90% of an economy. The authors of this study, however, buried this fact on the tenth page of their paper and published a misleading overview, which the media uncritically parroted. The U.S. national debt currently stands at 105% of its economy.