From Gonzalo Lira:
Last week, a bit of news came out that – weirdly – didn’t garner the attention or the reaction one would have thought it would:
The U.S. Federal government deficit for fiscal year 2011 was revised to $1.645 trillion. That revision was up from the previous estimate of $1.4 trillion, which itself was a revision just a couple weeks ago by the Congressional Budget Office from the White House's earlier projection of $1.267 trillion in December.
... These deficit numbers are huge. Huge. HUGE.
As for the total debt, as of January 2011, the U.S. Treasury had $8.965 trillion in outstanding securities, plus an additional $5.166 trillion in "non-marketable" securities – that is, intra-government debts. The total outstanding debt of the U.S. Federal government is $14.131 trillion.
The U.S.'s gross domestic product in 2009 was $14.29 trillion.
So this current deficit is over 11.5% of 2009 GDP. Even if we take Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) rosy predictions for 2010’s GDP, the deficit is still 10.9% of GDP.
As to the rolling debt? It’s just about 100% of GDP.
These are Third World numbers: Deficits that are in the double-digits vis à vis the gross domestic product – and total debts that equal the GDP – are numbers that Argentina, Greece, Zambia gets:
These numbers aren't supposed to happen to the good ol’ U.S. of A.!
Oh, but they are...
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Editor's Note: The Daily Crux warned of this terrible situation nearly two years ago.
Click here to read our original assessment.]
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