Thursday, January 06, 2011

Visualizing the US debt in #100 bills :(

The graphic, from here, is a visualization of the US public debt in stacks of one hundred dollar bills (ht)
It needs updating with a few more stacks--data used is almost two years old, and in those months we have spent a whole lot of money that we don't have.

First, visualize $100 million as a stack of hundred dollar bills:
In the debt visualization below, the tiny speck in the bottom left is this guy--helps you scale things :)

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