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The chart is for deficit, not debt (see the inky dinky text at the bottom of the infographic)



I don't think that's correct. The text at the top refers to "Holders of Treasury Securities" and the legend on the side says each $ equals 10m of Treasury Securities. I.e. debt.

In addition the graphic seems totally screwy. There are 32 rows of 35 dollar signs (total of 1120) which means that $11.2 billion are represented. Which bears no resemblance to either the number at the top nor the one at the bottom.

In addition, the number at the top ($3.4 billion) seems quite small in relation to the one at the bottom.

Seems screwed up.


Perhaps it's just a completely fucked graphic then? If it takes this many HNers to try to decipher its meaning, I doubt there's any hope for the average population.




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