Ouch. The clock in America that has been counting up the ‘budget deficit’ – the overdraft of the US government – has run out of digits! They’re going to have to build a new one with two more digits… which will mean they can count up to numbers a hundred times bigger than the last one!
Hmmm… The clock ran out when it went up to $10 trillion dollars. That’s $10,000,000,000,000. Or about $82000 per family in the US. That’s a lot of money! Now it’ll be measuring up to $1,000,000,000,000,000 – a quadrillion dollars!
See original story here. And if you want an up-to-date figure of how much the debt has got to right now, then click on the live link here!
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