Thursday, April 21, 2011

Debt Ceiling Shattered April 15

Much attention is directed to the approaching congressional vote on raising the debt limit, which makes the following mysterious.

According to the U.S. Treasury, the $14.294 trillion limit was exceeded on April 15. See it for yourself here.

The latest figures to the penny:

Total Public Debt Outstanding

April 14: $14,270,792,119,184.89

April 15: $14,305,336,580,992.11

April 18: $14,309,159,097,877.65

April 19: $14,320,468,555,091.68

HT: Ken Sturzenacker

3 comments:

Neverfox said...

Tyler Durden solves the mystery.

Sheldon Richman said...

Thanks! It's government. What did we expect?

Kevin Eggers said...

Debt is directly related to bureaucracy, where, like the dog that can never catch its tail, there is never enough bureaucracy to solve the problem that more bureaucracy created in the first place to solve the problem that more bureaucracy created in the first place to solve the problem that more bureaucracy created in the first place to solve the problem...