As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.
Lynne Parramore interviews James K. Galbraith at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website, The Greek Revolt Against Bad Economics Threatens European Elites. Interesting interview, which (as Yves Smith pointed out at Naked Capitalism) confirms Evans-Pritchard's claim that Syriza leaders expected a "Yes" vote in the referendum.
Doug Henwood interviews journalist and grad student Natina Vgonzas and then economist Mark Blythe (who is on our list of bloggers at Triple Crisis) for his great radio program Behind the News. Vgonzas has been in Athens, so gives an interesting on-the-scene account of the referendum; Blythe is particularly good on the history of the crisis and why it doesn't make sense to blame the Greeks (and as usual his accent is awesome). [Added later--I meant to link also to Mark Blyth's Foreign Affairs piece that is mentioned in the Henwood interview: A Pain in the Athens: Why Greece Isn't to Blame for the Crisis. On his own website, Blyth calls his piece "an antidote to the 'it's all Tsipras' fault' meme." Yves Smith, take note.]