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Re:55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Deb... by 5874-4b22-a4e0 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:21AM (#17566515)
19k could be paid off by a single person, has this increased in the last two years?
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Re:55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Deb... by bannable on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:35AM (#17566657)
Take another look at the table - the values are denominated in millions of dollars, and that second symbol is a comma, not a period, so it's 19 million million.
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Re:55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Deb... by sp332 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @10:23AM (#17566540)
In tiny print above that: (Millions of dollars)
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