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U.S. debt clock surges past $18 trillion

U.S. debt clock surges past $18 trillion ‘Up 70% under Barack Obama’ The U.S. debt clock has swept past $18 trillion without so much as a flicker of hesitation. But what is $18 trillion? How about figuring it in exotic supercars, like those 253-mph, 1,001-horsepower (and 8 miles per gallon) $1.9 million Bugatti Veyrons? For the national debt, you get just a handful short of 9.5 million of the cars. How about air-hours for a major jet like Air Force One, assuming operating costs of about $275,000 per hour? You’d have to rack up 65 million hours of flight, give… View Article