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  2. US national debt hits a new record: $36 trillion - AOL

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    The U.S. national debt broke a new record after crossing the $36 trillion mark for the first time as the federal government's mounting budget deficits cause the debt to surge.

  3. National debt of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States public debt as a percentage of GDP reached its highest level during Harry Truman's first presidential term, during and after World War II. Public debt as a percentage of GDP fell rapidly in the post-World War II period and reached a low in 1974 under Richard Nixon .

  4. The US Debt Is at $34 Trillion: Why Are We Struggling To Pay ...

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    The U.S. government's spending habits have reached a new record, and it's currently more than $34.5 trillion in debt. But owing money is nothing new -- it's a part of the country's historical...

  5. List of countries by external debt - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by external debt: it is the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in internationally accepted currencies, goods or services, where the public debt is the money or credit owed by any level of government, from central to local, and the private debt the money or credit owed by private households or private corporations based on the country under ...

  6. America is now paying more in gross interest on its record ...

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    Intragovernmental debt accounts for about $6.8 trillion of the national debt, the CRFB reported in September when the debt crossed the $33 trillion mark. The much bigger piece of the debt is held ...

  7. Financial position of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Foreign holdings of US assets are concentrated in debt. Americans own more foreign equity and foreign direct investment than foreigners own in the United States, but foreigners hold nearly four times as much US debt as Americans hold in foreign debt. Of all US debt, 15.2% is owed to foreigners. [13]

  8. America's national debt is well over $33 trillion — but here ...

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    At $33 trillion and counting — actually, it's presently above $33.75 trillion — America’s national debt is astonishingly high. But government deficits don’t exactly work like household ...

  9. Global debt - Wikipedia

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    There is more debt in the world than there is money in circulation. [9] The ratio of total debt to money supply ranges from 1.7 in Japan and Switzerland to 4.7 in Denmark and Iceland. The ratio for the world total is 1.8, according to the above table. A high ratio of public debt to money cannot be sustained, according to some models. [10]