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...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 year ago
The National Debt Clock was designed to show figures of up to 10 trillion U-S dollars. When the figure rose above that amount at the end of last month the clock failed to cope.
News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
So were he still with us, he'd be unimpressed to learn that National Debt Clock has now run out of room. The ballooning US national debt has now broken through the $10 trillion mark to reach $10,299.299,050,383 at the time of typing...Perhaps...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 year ago
The digital counter marks the national debt level, but when that passed the $10 trillion point last month, the sign could not display the full amount. The board was erected to highlight the $2.7 trillion level of debt in 1989. The clock's owners say...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 year ago
In a sign of the times, the legendary National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing debt. The Times Square -area ticker needs two additional digits to track a national debt 100 times larger than the current $10.2...