Federal debt
The 11th hour
http://innovation.cq.com/media/debt_components/
An interactive chart from our colleagues at Congressional Quarterly shows who holds the federal debt
AMERICA'S federal debt is so vast that it is hard to think about: a few billion here or there seems to make little odds. One way to make it manageable is to look at the other side of that deal-the bondholders to whom the land of the free is in hock. That is what our colleagues at Congressional Quarterly have done in this interactive graphic, which is so good that we decided to link to it rather than create our own version. Readers can also explore the history of the debt ceiling, which has been raised so frequently that a new term ought to be coined to describe it.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/federal-debt
The 11th hour
http://innovation.cq.com/media/debt_components/
An interactive chart from our colleagues at Congressional Quarterly shows who holds the federal debt
AMERICA'S federal debt is so vast that it is hard to think about: a few billion here or there seems to make little odds. One way to make it manageable is to look at the other side of that deal-the bondholders to whom the land of the free is in hock. That is what our colleagues at Congressional Quarterly have done in this interactive graphic, which is so good that we decided to link to it rather than create our own version. Readers can also explore the history of the debt ceiling, which has been raised so frequently that a new term ought to be coined to describe it.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/federal-debt
