National Debt Clock - Broken!
On Saturday, I wrote here about how the National Debt Clock in New York City had run out of space. Things have taken a turn for the worse.
The U.S. Treasury’s version of the national debt clock is broken!
A visitor to this site emailed me today to point out that TreasuryDirect’s “Debt to the Penny and Who Holds It” feature is stopped. Stopped on Friday, October 10th.
Query what the national debt was on Monday, and it tells you about Friday, October 10th. Query what the national debt was on Tuesday, and it tells you about Friday, October 10th. Query any day after Friday, October 10th and it tells you about Friday, October 10th.
This may be great news: the national debt has stopped growing!
This may be dreadful news: The national debt is so high that computers can no longer compute it.
This may be sinister news: the U.S. Treasury is trying to conceal the debt numbers from the public!
Most likely, this is not really news: something is wrong with the Web site that displays this national debt clock.
But since we’ve had huge spending bills in Congress the last few weeks, this is no time for debt clocks to go out of whack. The public needs to see what’s going on from every direction, and the total national debt is a very important one.
By the way, just so you know, the national debt today is three or four days higher than:
$10,294,381,432,306.11
That’s $33,706.56 per man, woman, and child in the United States. $105,507.30 per average family.
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