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It's Official: $16,015,769,788,215.80

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A week ago, following the unsettled auction of the just concluded 2 Year bond issue, we calculated that the total US debt just crossed a psychological boundary that it will never cross to the downside ever again. Today, we just got the official confirmation courtesy of all auctions from last week finally settling. Sure enough, as of Friday, the official debt tally is now $16,015,769,788,215.80.

And for those who care about such things, the total debt/GDP is now, assuming the same GDP growth in Q3 as in Q2, at 102%, up from 76.5% when President Obama took office.

 

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Tue, 09/04/2012 - 17:56 | 2762063 monad
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engineered

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 16:54 | 2761815 alfred b.
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     Now just think, what is these were mex pesos....we would be laughing all the way to the proverbial bank!   But, also consider, that somewhere down the line that's what they'll probably become.

 

 

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 16:55 | 2761820 ParkAveFlasher
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Long zeroes!

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 16:58 | 2761828 FubarNation
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Its only Federal Reserve Notes.  What is the big deal?

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 17:03 | 2761849 asteroids
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Hyperinflation, continuous money printing. The end result is the same. The FIAT currency becomes worthless. Only good as toilet paper or burning. Hyperinflation events only last a few years, yet this money printing can last a long time.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 17:06 | 2761857 phoolish
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AS IF the US GDP is $16T.  LOL.  It would be remarkable if it actually exceeded $10T.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 17:09 | 2761866 GlomarHabu
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Let's count our blessings. The Democratic Party convention is underway and I'm sure,positively sure, they have seen this number and have an easy to follow map on how to cut it down by 80-90% with an obama re-election. I mean he is as bad as Shaft and Superfly all in one package.

We are blessed.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 17:25 | 2761874 Jlmadyson
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I'm not exactly sure how Timmy G has done it but the run rate was coming in at $125B for the past months (meaning this is what would be left before we hit the ceiling) now he has it at $189B for the last two months before the election. $379B left before ceiling hit equals $126B in deficit spending for 3 months.

He has bought himself one month somehow.

Which means in November we will run out in which I guess he thinks he will be able to salvage Fed pensions until he can walk out the door in Jan.

Wishful thinking.

But he is trying. That is for sure.

A whole lot of financial engineering going on here.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 17:12 | 2761878 _SILENCER
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16 trillion in phony debt?  I assure you, folks, you didn't build that.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 17:26 | 2761918 yogibear
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WoooHoo! On to 20 trillion for the next bankster wealth transfer program. Bernanke and the Fed are all set for continuation of QE to Infinity bankster initiative.

Seems like reason enough for food and commodity producers to start raising prices by 20 to 40%.

 

Obama did over 5 trillion in less than 4 yeat\rs how about doubling that in the next 4years and going for $10 trillion. Make it $26 trillion by the end of the 2016? Krugman and the rest of modified Keynesians would have a debt-love fest with more and more debt. 

With all the printing and devaluing let's go for the gold! Hyperinflation as the goal.

 

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 17:41 | 2762002 Pancho Villa
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As Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say: "Well, Jane, it just goes to show you, it's always something--if it ain't one thing, it's another."

If people aren't paying sky-high prices for dotcom stocks with no earnings, they are rushing to loan money to home buyers with no income and 120% LTV ratios. Then they rush to buy USGBs that are paying negative interest rates. It seems that the financial world just jumps from one crazy scheme to another.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 17:54 | 2762057 q99x2
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Kick the FED, along with all the debts they owe, out of the country.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 18:31 | 2762195 Bunga Bunga
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Well done Mr B.B., for every dollar of debt added we get five more pennies in GDP.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 18:40 | 2762243 Getting Old Sucks
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I don't fear for myself but for my children and grandchildren.  While ZH keeps me abreast and worried of the financial woes of the world, I've also been following a website that's a little scarier for a year now.  Very little MSM is being paid to what's happening in Japan and spreading across the Pacific.  One scientist says Fukishima will contaminate the Pacific Ocean forever, they can't stop it.  The news on http://enenews.com/ is very disturbing.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 18:46 | 2762270 YesWeKahn
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Who cares, Bernakidiot can print that in one single shot.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 19:17 | 2762410 syntaxterror
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Looks like a 50% decrease to me, no? Anyone from the Owebama cult care to confirm?

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 19:26 | 2762454 syntaxterror
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Looks like a chart from a Madoff Prospectus! Impressive work.

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 19:31 | 2762475 gavroche76
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Wow... can you imagine how much it represents in vietnamese dong terms.... Mr. Gartman ?

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 19:32 | 2762479 MachuPicchu
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American Banana Republic

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 20:02 | 2762618 The Fonz...befo...
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Now THIS is where he should say...

"you didn't do that...the govt made that happen"

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 21:52 | 2762971 Slightly Insane
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I doubt that we could get a more recked economy if we let Putin, and Chairman Mao run this freakin Government!  Wait a minute, we did one better.  We got the guy who is "both".

 

We are all freakin nuts .... the question is .... when do we labotomize all the criminal asswipes that brought us here?

The judicial system is broken, beyond any reasonable repair, the crooks are running the government right into the shit hole.  The money .... that's a freakin joke .... I'm seeing a day when the peasants turn "UGLY".

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 22:25 | 2763045 cjbosk
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Watching the DNC now, holy shit, I'm scared mommy!  These people are completely out of their effing minds!

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 22:26 | 2763047 cjbosk
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Watching the DNC now, holy shit, I'm scared mommy!  These people are completely out of their effing minds!

Tue, 09/04/2012 - 23:19 | 2763120 BlackholeDivestment
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Can't wait for the next Earthquake to hit the big penis, now that nobody inside will get killed when it is fallen ...is fallen. When is the next White House ''raise the debt ceiling'' speech again?  http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-govt-open-for-business/2011/04/08/AF94Vw4C_video.html LMAO!!! ...that never will get old. You may want to take the kids out of D.C. metro area Union day care, AKA schools, leave the area and never come back after the next debt ceiling White House speech. Why?  http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2012-08-23-East%20Coast%20Quake/id-c7f04308bb6744488ce86e45132c2316   

...and Iran so far away.

...ewe, so close to 9/11/2012, that 12/3/2012 Mercury Venus Saturn Giza Morning Show, 12/21/2012 solstice and solar galactic center this time too. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-debt-ceiling-d-day-september-14-2012 Kinda gives yuh the Jim Willie's now don't it? Lol. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-eFbJsprf4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWi5heq5mw&playnext=1&list=PL2B2F1CC59BC37ED2&feature=results_video

 10 days away from another Zero Hour Late Night ''the penis is open for business'', at Zero Interest, post debt POTUS Seal of approval, last years April 8, 2012 White House speech.

Beware of February 6, 2013, the pulse pattern quake cycle, and a butt load of other things, does not look good for that time of year as of late. 

 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2004/us2004slav/ 

1, 2, 3 and

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2007/us2007hear/  

1, 2, 3 and

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010tfan/ 

1, 2, 3 and 

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Wed, 09/05/2012 - 06:23 | 2763683 BlackholeDivestment
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P.S. As a reminder of just what this $16 Trillion mark of the beast (meaning nation(s) and Antichrist) Debt ''Note to self'' means, lol, take another look at Rosemarys Baby a little closer, one last time. It may ''change'' your perspective, Lol. 

Berlin Germany Before Rosemary's Baby Entered Into Executive Power Status http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZIRv0weNA  

 Talking About His Faith >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gDLjaHHqCg >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K9dS9wl7U <<< 

In FDR's (as an FRD reminder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYACjkyXS3Q ) White House Basement War Room   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvPhSUZgzxo&feature=related and Over POTUS's Shoulder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAcmaKSCdhI When He Gave His Pre Washington Monument Permanent Shutdown 5.8 Earthquake 5 Miles From The Lake Ann Nuclear Plant After Last Years Fukushima Quake and Tsunami China Syndromes Zero Hour at Zero Interest Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAyWvcIFfy4 LMAO

In Egypt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsP052z5hLk  

And His Sex ''Change You Can BeLIEve In'' Based On His Christian Marriage Now Become Satanic Sacred Sacricife and Abortion of God In Christ For The Sake of The New Secular Faith Pandering Principle Vote  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQGMTPab9GQ 

To His Command Power and Military Pride Over The Troops http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H7RpRjVtss  

His Apollyon Rising 2012 Profile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQkcs7NPRa8 

And The ''Irony ?'' Of His Name http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sftVKpuQ_A LMAO 

2012-2016 Capstone Timing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEsVPFdNju4  

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 01:41 | 2763449 Bastiat009
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When will it start to really matter?

When will the media start saying that this is a bigger problem than Fluke's sex life or Romney's underwear or Obama's father's skin color?

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 03:58 | 2763593 EmileLargo
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Obama deserves a second term. Why saddle someone else with his pile os $hit? Let the guy who created the pile of $hit sort it out himself.  

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 04:09 | 2763603 Kingbingo
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When is $16.394 trillion due?

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 09:20 | 2764117 blunderdog
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Forever.

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