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Trivia about national debt

  • First turned on in 1989 in Times Square, the "clock" measuring this ran out of digits in October 2008
  • It's what this device keeps track of; Treasury Sec'y Nicholas Brady has one on his desk:$4,001,985,469,429
  • Budget deficits cause this, the money owed by the U.S. government, to rise
  • Now totaling over $1 trillion, it began 11 days after Treasury was established in 1789