64 days and $1.485 trillion dollars

Friday, November 14th, 2008

From July 28th to Oct 4th 2008 the Congress and the Senate raised the US debt ceiling limit from $9.815 trillion to $11.3 trillion. That is a staggeringly bone crushing 1.485 trillion dollars of new debt in just 64 days. That is $23,203,125,000 a day. At that rate Washington will add ...