Graphing the US national debt
Posted on October 8, 2003
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I like simple, concise explorations of complicated concepts. Over at die.net Aaron Hopkins has done just that for the US national debt by graphing it:
Spurred by Dubya’s recent economic stimulus plan (dubbed “Reaganomics II” by some of the media), I started playing with historic financial data for the United States. So I dug up national debt, inflation, census and population estimates, and gross domestic product component data and started graphing to see if I could find anything interesting about how we’ve interacted with debt in the past.
It’s a bit disconcerting that every US citizen owes over $20 000, were each person to shoulder an equal part of the current debt. For a precise accounting of the exact value, check out the U.S. National Debt Clock).
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