http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/06/05/number-of-the-week-us-debt-nears-key-threshold/
88%: Gross U.S. public debt as a share of annual economic output.
There’s little doubt that the U.S. needs to get its mounting debts under
control. But at what point do they become a clear and present danger?
By some measures, we’re reaching that point about now. As of Friday, our
total national debt – the sum of all outstanding IOUs issued by the U.S.
Treasury – stood at a bit more than $13 trillion, or al
