Remember the US National Debt Clock in Times Square?
 

http://static.userland.com/sh4/image...lDebtClock.jpg

Nowadays it would read about $9.700.000.000.000, guess the subprime bailout will add some more zeros to that figure:Oh crap

Soon there would not have been enough room for all the digits anyway...

Yeah, they'll be having to upgrade that to a new digital clock that can withstand the addition of at least one more 0.... probably more, if history is any indication.

did they take it down?

Yeah, it probably wouldn't be very uplifting now

Thats the point. It should not be uplifting people should be pissed.

Brutal.


If people ran their personal and business finances that way, people all over the country would be foreclosing on their mortgages, drowning in debt, and going bankrupt. Huge companies would be insolvent overnight and would be forced to sell for pennies on the dollar or just to go bankrupt.

Oh... wait. Hmmmm.

If someone ran their business like the FED runs they would be in jail.....

vote with a bullet

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fJF547Mv62A

The figure could probably eliminate world poverty at a stroke. Then all the people could go online and buy porn and we could all live happily ever after:)