Following the National Debt on Twitter
Posted by Jim Harper
I’ve done a couple posts here on the national debt – the inability of the national debt clock in New York City to handle the rollover to $10,000,000,000,000.00, and the freezing of the Treasury Department’s online national debt clock, now resolved.
The other day, through the WashingtonWatch.com Twitter feed, I discovered a service that will send [...]
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National Debt Clock: Up and Running Again
Posted by Jim Harper
The world was rocked a couple of weeks ago when I reported here that the National Debt Clock was broken.
Not the big sign in New York City – that one’s working, though it needs a new digit. The Treasury Department’s “Debt to the Penny and Who Holds It” feature was stopped. Stopped on [...]
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National Debt Clock – Broken!
Posted by Jim Harper
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 [...]
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National Debt Clock Runs Out of Space
Posted by Jim Harper
In case you missed the news, the National Debt Clock has run out of room.
The national debt recently crossed through ten trillion dollars, requiring the Durst organization, which maintains it in New York City, to drop the dollar sign and make room for the “1″ in the tens of trillions column.
Ten trillion looks like this, [...]
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