How much debt is the US in? Here is a small glace of how much debt we are in and the scale by a few presidents.
Here's where I got the image http://www.macrotrends.net/2023/national-debt-by-president
I do find it funny that families in the US we live below our means and if we go into debt we try our bests to pay them off as we go. It seems by certain presidents is to spend spend spend and let the bills ride to the next guy. The current level of the national debt as of March 2017 is 19,846,420.00 million dollars.
Here's another chart showing US debt levels increasing over the years. http://www.macrotrends.net/2496/national-debt-growth-by-year
this makes you think is the dollar really the save haven.
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