News Source: Charlotte Observer Online
| about 1 year ago
In fact, the digital counter has been moving so much that it recently ran out of digits to display the ballooning figure: $10,150,603,734,720, or roughly $10.2 trillion, as of Saturday afternoon. The clock was put up by the late real estate mogul...
News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 year ago
In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure...It's marking the federal government's current debt at about $10.2 trillion. The Durst Organization says it plans to update the sign...
News Source: Turkish Press
| about 1 year ago
Shares in General Motors recovered slightly Friday a day after plunging to their lowest levels since the 1950s on concerns the giant automaker will struggle to fund its operations. At about 1520 GMT, GM's shares were up 3.36 percent at 4.92 dollars.
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| about 1 year ago
Initial results for Friday's settlement of the credit default swaps on Lehman Brothers have undershot expectations, setting the recovery rate on the firm's senior debt at 9.75 cents on the dollar. Expectations had ranged in the double-digits, with...
News Source: Valleywag
| about 1 year ago
In 1989, real estate developer Seymour Durst installed an electronic billboard in Times Square that tracks both America's national debt and your family's share, back before San Francisco destroyed the family. The clock has been modified by replacing...
News Source: Asian Age
| about 1 year ago
A replacement for the clock with two additional digits that would be able to account for up to a quadrillion dollars of debt is expected only by the next year. The existing clock can accommodate up to 9,999,999,999,999 dollars (just one dollar short...