{"id":54353,"date":"2014-08-04T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54353"},"modified":"2014-08-05T08:08:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T12:08:51","slug":"a-bit-of-federal-debt-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54353","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Federal Debt Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Total Federal Debt, 20 January 2009<\/span>:\u00a0 $10,626,877,048,913.08<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Total Federal Debt, 31 July 2014<\/span>:\u00a0 $17,687,136,723,410.59<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Elapsed time<\/span>:\u00a0 5 years 6 months 12 days<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Total additional Federal debt during this period<\/span>:\u00a0 $7,060,259,674,497.51 ($7.060 trillion)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Average additional Federal debt incurred per year<\/span>:\u00a0 $1,277,246,085,245.28 ($1.277 trillion)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Average<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> additional<\/span> Federal debt incurred per day<\/span>:\u00a0 $3,496,909,199.85 ($3.497 billion)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Average<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> additional<\/span> Federal debt incurred per hour<\/span>:\u00a0 $145,776,752.45<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Average<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> additional<\/span> Federal debt incurred per <em>minute<\/em><\/span>:\u00a0 $2,429,612.54\u00a0 (It should take around 1 or 2 minutes to read this article.\u00a0 During that time, Uncle Sam went between $2.4 million and $4.9 million farther in debt.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Average<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> additional<\/span> Federal debt incurred per<strong><em> second<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 $40,493.54<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/terence-p-jeffrey\/706025967449751-federal-debt-7t-under-obama\">this article<\/a><\/em>, plus basic arithmetic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that US economy is chugging right along.\u00a0 Happy days are here again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total Federal Debt, 20 January 2009:\u00a0 $10,626,877,048,913.08 Total Federal Debt, 31 July 2014:\u00a0 $17,687,136,723,410.59 Elapsed time:\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"A Bit of Federal Debt Math\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54353\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Bit of Federal Debt Math<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}