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One of the most jaw dropping, and completely depressing, animations of U.S. National Debt I’ve ever seen.

Perhaps I’m overly melancholy after seeing that it would take 12 plus football fields of 100 dollar bills stacked 8 feet high to pay our national debt, but isn’t it just a little ironic …

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Leave it to Warren Buffett to distill U.S. national debt, the world’s worst trade deficit and something as boring riveting as Economics 101 in two minutes of easy to understand animation.

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So the question remains… if the concept of national debt is so easy to understand, and …

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What could be more eye opening than the National Debt Clock with a few trillion dollars up for display?

Try the new Carbon Counter courtesy of Deutsche Bank.

According to Deutsche Bank’s website:

The Carbon Counter displays the running total amount of long-lived greenhouse gasses (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and …

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You know it’s bad when folks get nostalgic and fondly reminisce about a time in history when our National Debt was only 9 Trillion Dollars!

It could be worse ya know… how does $10 Trillion and growing look?

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Photos by:
Digiart2001 and Kevin Krejci
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In late summer, I wrote about the first non-snoozefest documentary on economics ever produced — I.O.U.S.A. The Movie.
It has now been released in a 30 minute condensed version and placed on YouTube.com (see video below) for all to see.
If you haven’t watched it yet, it is probably the most jaw …

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With near saturation of Doom & Gloom headlines in the previous week, I feel that it’s important to focus on some of the positives.
Last night, amid the round the clock media coverage of the global financial crisis, CNBC aired some fairly recent data released by the Federal Reserve Board with …

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It may not be as hot a ticket as The Dark Knight, but the new documentary I.O.U.S.A is my must see movie of the summer.
As the title suggests, the implication of an I.O.U. (an acronym for “I owe you”) being permanently stamped on any American symbol is alarming to say …