Wednesday, October 8, 2008

US dept clock needs a new digit

The National Debt increased $1.36 billion per day since September of 2006:
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$10,187,754,347,408.87
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— US debt as of October 6, 2008
* ** * * Eleven Trillion * * * * *
htttp://www.thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/us_debt.html
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Telegraph (UK) - Financial crisis: US debt clock runs out of numbers

The US National Debt Clock was installed in Manhattan by late real estate developer Seymour Durst in 1989 to highlight what was then a $2.7 trillion debt. But when the total crept over 10 trillion on September 30, owners of the clock realised they had reached a watershed moment - they needed another digit, a fourteenth.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/3162951/Financial-crisis-US-debt-clock-runs-out-of-numbers.html

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