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发帖数: 29846 | 1 US Closes 2011 With Record $15.22 Trillion In Debt, Officially At 100.3%
Debt/GDP, $14 Billion From Breaching Debt Ceiling
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/03/2012 16:49 -0500
While not news to Zero Hedge readers who knew about the final debt
settlement of US debt about 10 days ahead of schedule, it is now official:
according to the US Treasury, America has closed the books on 2011 with debt
at an all time record $15,222,940,045,451.09. And, as was observed here
first in all of the press, US debt to GDP is now officially over 100%, or
100.3% to be specific, a fact which the US government decided to delay
exposing until the very end of the calendar year. We wonder, rhetorically,
just how prominent of a talking point this historic event will be in any
upcoming GOP primary debates. And yes, technically this number is greater
than the debt ceiling but it excludes various accounting gimmicks. When
accounting for those, the US has a debt ceiling buffer of... $14 billion, or
one third the size of a typical bond auction. |
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