http://www.startupaddict.com A haven for entrepreneurial Superheroes Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:27:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.startupaddict.com/business-musings/united-states-national-debt-clock/282 http://www.startupaddict.com/business-musings/united-states-national-debt-clock/282#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 02:35:38 +0000 Tod Whipple http://www.startupaddict.com/blog/?p=282

The United States national debt has reached nearly 11 trillion dollars and counting. I have been tracking the government’s mindless intervention into the private markets like most of you.

What is truly astounding is how trivial a trillion dollars has become in reference to a normal denomination. A trillion is the new billion in terms of throwing numbers around in conversation. Just to put it in perspective…if you started counting to a trillion dollars when you were an infant, it would take 4 generations to count to a trillion.

It’s easy to print money today, it’s not so easy to pay it back tomorrow.

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