National Debt Clock

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

by Samuel Arbesman  · 31 Aug 2012  · 284pp  · 79,265 words

the Real Time Statistics Project and acts as a clearinghouse for the sorts of estimated real-time counters we have likely seen, such as the National Debt Clock near Times Square in New York City, which counts the U.S. debt. Worldometers aggregates counters from numerous organizations for such quantities as the current

The New Class Conflict

by Joel Kotkin  · 31 Aug 2014  · 362pp  · 83,464 words

,’” The Saeculum Decoded, June 20, 2012, http://blog.lifecourse.com/2012/06/dear-graduating-class-of-2012-you-are-so-not-special. 14. U.S. National Debt Clock, http://www.usdebtclock.org. 15. Walter Russell Mead, “Time to Occupy State Pensions?” American Interest, June 25, 2012, http://www.the-american-interest.com/wrm

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/2012/06/25/time-to-occupy-the-pension-funds. 16. U.S. National Debt Clock; Bruno Waterfield, “Germany to Impose Tax on the Young to Help the Old,” Telegraph (UK), April 4, 2012; Mariko Kato, “Experts Say Japan Must Change

Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy

by Gregory Brandon Salsbury  · 15 Mar 2010  · 261pp  · 70,584 words

, 2009. 12 The American, “Debt Be Not Proud: The Sorry Tale of America’s Out-of-Control Spending,” September 7, 2009. 13 Brillig, U.S. National Debt Clock, as of January 14, 2010. 14 Market Watch, “Financial fears grow,” March 20, 2009. 15 Market Watch, “Financial fears grow,” March 20, 2009. 16 Market

I'm a stranger here myself: notes on returning to America after twenty years away

by Bill Bryson  · 6 Jun 2000  · 303pp  · 93,545 words

grasping. On Sixth Avenue in New York there is an electronic billboard, erected and paid for by some anonymous source, that announces itself as “The National Debt Clock.” When I was last there, it listed the national debt at $4,533,603,804,000—that’s $4.5 trillion—and the figure was

The Social Life of Money

by Nigel Dodd  · 14 May 2014  · 700pp  · 201,953 words

together “just as accomplices are tied by their crime” (Baudrillard 1997: 39). It is a common destiny served on credit. Baudrillard frames it using the national debt clock on 42nd Street in New York. The total on the debt clock rises inexorably; indeed, it ran out of digits in 2008 when the U

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

by Niall Ferguson  · 13 Nov 2007  · 471pp  · 124,585 words

been conspicuous by its absence under President Clinton’s successor, George W. Bush. Just months before President Bush’s election, on 7 September 2000, the National Debt Clock in New York’s Times Square was shut down. On that day it read as follows: ‘Our national debt: $5,676,989,904,887. Your

Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis

by Johan Norberg  · 14 Sep 2009  · 246pp  · 74,341 words

real-estate tycoon Seymour Durst put a digital counter on the sidewall of a building near Times Square in New York City. It was a "national-debt clock," and Durst's aim was to highlight the fact that the U.S. national debt had attained an unbelievable $2.7 trillion and kept growing

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reached its upper limit as the debt passed $10 trillion for the first time. That meant the display had run out of digits. A new national-debt clock will soon be put up, with room for two more digits, just to make sure. During the Bush presidency, billions of dollars of support was

The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Coming Currency Crisis With Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments

by Charles Goyette  · 29 Oct 2009  · 287pp  · 81,970 words

jump in Pentagon spending, to $595 billion, and $18.2 billion to cover FDIC-insured deposits contributed to the deficit. Meanwhile, the counter on the National Debt Clock whirled past $10 trillion. The famous thirteen-digit clock installed in Times Square in 1989 couldn’t properly accommodate the higher numbers when the national

The Post-American World: Release 2.0

by Fareed Zakaria  · 1 Jan 2008  · 344pp  · 93,858 words

, the national debt stood at $3 trillion. By the end of 2008, it had climbed into the eleven-digit realm, surpassing $10 trillion. The famous National Debt Clock in New York City ran out of space to display all the figures. (Its owners plan to install a new and expanded clock.) Thanks to

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Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk

by Satyajit Das  · 14 Oct 2011  · 741pp  · 179,454 words

) of the human race from global nuclear war. In 1989 Seymour Darst, a New York real estate developer, created the financial equivalent. He installed the national debt clock—a billboard-size digital display on Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in Manhattan, New York, that constantly updates to show the current U.S

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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

by Stephanie Kelton  · 8 Jun 2020  · 338pp  · 104,684 words

Fed Up!: Success, Excess and Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader

by Colin Lancaster  · 3 May 2021  · 245pp  · 75,397 words