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 U.S. public debt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The U.S. public debt, commonly called the national debt or the gross federal debt, is the amount of money owed by the United States federal government.
Unlike the debt of a corporation though, a holder of the debts owed by governments can't force the government into bankruptcy to pay the debt.
Intragovernmental debt includes money for government trust funds, such as pension plans and the debt for social security which is about $1.7 trillion as of May 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._national_debt   (2938 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - National Debt
Today, the finances involved in contracting and redeeming the public debt of a country are a sizable proportion of its government budget.
National public debts are contracted chiefly by incurring interest-paying loans, in the form of bonds, bills, or notes.
Public debts tend to be large-scale credit operations and are contracted on a national scale by central governments and on a lesser scale by provincial, regional, district, and municipal administrative bodies.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761562370/National_Debt.html   (1055 words)

  
 debt, public - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about debt, public
Public debt is advantageous in that part of the national funds are secured at an interest rate lower than that provided to private industry and in that the financial operations of government are funded on a permanent basis.
The largest public debts are incurred to meet emergencies, such as war debts that arise when it is difficult to finance the extended activities of the government by new or increased taxes, or when the government must borrow abroad to finance the war effort..
Public debts may be paid by a sinking fund sinking fund, sum set apart periodically from the income of a government or a business and allowed to accumulate in order ultimately to pay off a debt.
http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/debt,%20public   (955 words)

  
 Sustainable Public Debt
While fiscal deficits and the public debt and have always been contentious political issues, most economists recognize that a government should be able to safely and reasonably finance at least some part of its spending through the issuance of debt in lieu of taxation.
For the debt to be at the level where the primary budget is balanced (i.e.,
less than the public debt as a percentage of national income (the right-side term) then the public debt and/or the deficit spending rate is unsustainable.
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 Public ownership - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
Public sector institutions have access to finance at government interest rates, which are (almost) always lower than even the most financially secure private sector firms, because the government cannot go bankrupt, which means less risk to the lender.
Public ownership of profitable services may lead to "gold-plating" (over-investment in assets) if decisions are driven by engineering ideals and not efficiency concerns.
Public ownership can protect consumer interests in sectors where competition is low, where choices are important but made infrequently, and/or where consumers do not have the expertise to make good decisions (such as in health care).
http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/government_ownership.htm   (1000 words)

  
 National Debt UPDATE
The Public Debt is the financial liability for the Government's borrowing.
The National Debt or Gross Federal Debt = Debt Held by the Government + Debt Held by the Public.
43.9% of the total public debt was foreign-held at the end of fiscal year 2004.
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 Chapter 14: Deficit spending and the public debt
Note that public debt is the total of all outstanding debt owed by the treasury to its individuals and institutional lenders.
The net public debt is the gross public debt minus all government interagency borrowings.
The gross public debt is all Federal government debt.
http://www.gsu.edu/~ecomaa/chap14.htm   (615 words)

  
 U.S. Public Debt vs. GDP
Public Debt Data (1929 - 2003), Bureau of Public Debt, http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/.
The main sources of the U.S. public debt are: (1) Wars; (2) Recessions; (3) Tax-rate cuts.
It is more meaningful to measure the public debt in relation to an economy's GDP than to measure the public debt along.
http://faculty.hacc.edu/jhuang/econdata/htm/debtgdp/debtgdp.htm   (81 words)

  
 Online Learning Center
A budget deficit is an excess of government expenditures above tax revenues in a particular year; the public debt is the total accumulation of budget deficits minus surpluses through time.
The U.S. public debt as a percentage of GDP is less than it was in 1950 and is in the lower range of such debt among major industrial nations.
Usually the public debt is not a means of shifting economic burdens to future generations.
http://www.mhhe.com/economics/mcconnell/student/olc/review19.htm   (331 words)

  
 U.S. Public and Private Debt 1790-2000
Fewer people know that the debt of the US Federal government is the tip of a debt iceberg.
Debt in all categories of the economy has been growing explosively - the debt for state and local governments, farmers, consumers, home buyers and, largest portion of all, debt for corporations.
After 200 years of debt money, total public and private debt has grown to about $20,000,000,000,000.
http://www.siue.edu/~rblain/usdebt.htm   (1915 words)

  
 National Debt
Although the site uses budget publications for 2001 as examples, the government is fairly consistent in naming its publications and these titles can be used to find the appropriate fiscal year in most cases.
The debt is “the sum of what America has borrowed over the years to finance deficit.” We also forget that America earns an annual income greater than the national debt, which means our economy can support it.
In addition to providing a useful table called “Revenues, Outlays, Deficits and Debt Held by the Public, Fiscal Years 1962-1993 (In billions of dollars),” it also analyses the spending and revenue options of the government during the fiscal years 1995-1999.
http://www.geocities.com/j_milojevic/debt.html   (3612 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Glossary > public debt
The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government).
The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
public debt - Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account.
http://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/public_debt.htm   (182 words)

  
 U.S. National Debt Clock FAQ
The National Debt is the total amount of money owed by the government; the federal budget deficit is the yearly amount by which spending exceeds revenue.
The remaining 60% of the Debt, roughly $3.3 trillion, is privately held.
I, or rather the CGI code I wrote for the Debt Clock, then calculate the current value of the Debt by a simple linear extrapolation between the recent date's value and the value for the debt about a year previously.
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/faq.html   (1040 words)

  
 Africa’s Debt: Statement by U.S. Public Officials
The debt is owed to Western governments, including our own (bilateral debt) and international institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (multilateral debt).
Much of this debt was incurred at the urging of Western governments, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund for failed and misguided projects.
The statement comes as Congress is considering the level of funding for bilateral debt cancellation and multilateral debt relief through the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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 Taylor (MS05) - U.S. Public Debt Exceeds $7 Trillion
Public Debt on May 9, 2001 when Congress passed the President’s 1st Budget:
Sources: Monthly Statement of the Public Debt, January 2004; http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm
Increase in Public Debt Outstanding Since May 9, 2001:
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ms04_taylor/debt200401.html   (49 words)

  
 Bureau of the Public Debt : U.S. Savings Bonds Online
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt
Public Debt will expedite replacement of missing or destroyed bonds for people in affected areas.
If the area in which you live was affected by Hurricane Katrina, you may be eligible to cash your savings bonds within their minimum 12-month holding period, including those held electronically in TreasuryDirect.
http://www.treasuryscams.gov/sav/sav.htm   (170 words)

  
 U.S. Treasury - Duties & Functions of the Bureau of Public Debt
The Bureau of the Public Debt borrows the money needed to operate the Federal Government.
It accomplishes its mision of administering the public debt by issuing and servicing U.S. Treasury marketable, savings and special securities.
U.S. Treasury - Duties and Functions of the Bureau of Public Debt
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/duties/bureaus/public-debt.html   (160 words)

  
 Foreign Ownership
The public debt total includes all U.S. Treasury public debt securities except for savings bonds, nonmarketable securities held by the Federal Reserve System and state and local government series securities.
Demand by private investors was influenced by a variety of factors, including the positive outlook for the value of the U.S. dollar and the strong likelihood of a reduction in the budget deficit.
Private investors held nearly $3.0 trillion of U.S. public debt securities at mid-year 1995, with the foreign and international investor sector increasing its participation sharply.
http://www.bondmarkets.com/newsletters/historical/GOV11541.shtml   (592 words)

  
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 public debt - definition of public debt by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
public debt - the total of the nation's debts: debts of local and state and national governments; an indicator of how much public spending is financed by borrowing instead of taxation
debt - money or goods or services owed by one person to another
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 The U.S. Public Debt
It was produced last fall by economists and budget analysts at the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Congressional Budget Office.
WASHINGTON, May 29 -- The Bush administration has shelved a report commissioned by the Treasury that shows the U.S. currently faces a future of chronic federal budget deficits totaling at least $44 trillion in current U.S. dollars.
U.S. Department of the Treasury Bureau of the Public Debt Online
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 Bureau of the Public Debt : The United States Debt Outstanding
U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt
Bureau of the Public Debt : The United States Debt Outstanding
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http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opd.htm   (153 words)

  
 DIOSA.NET - National Debt (USA)
Bureau of the Public Debt "to the penny" (U.S. Dept. of the Treasury)
"Interest on National Debt" - Detailed analysis of how uncontrolled spending and huge tax cuts put the government deeply in debt, so all U.S. citizens end up paying long-term interest+principal far greater than what we would have simply paid in taxes.
Conservative hardball attack on federal spending excess, the "other half" of the problem.
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 U.S. DEBT REDUCTION, OR "BUY OUT OF U.S. FEDERAL RESERVE"
Further, these are matters to be addressed by "Responsible, Knowledgeable U.S. House of Representatives and Senate Members who abide by their Oath of Office" not individuals who have allowed themselves to become a "part of the problem by conflict of interest" instead of Resolution of the Problems as required by their Offices of Public Trust.
LTD;) HOLDING TRUST the amount OF DEBT REDUCTION (credited to the National Debt) of 1T$USDA whereas it can be "re-invested" into the U.S. Markets of Housing, Manufacturing, Industry, Health Care, Education, Infra-structure as defined pre 1992's "privatization", Jobs, Research and Development and for other purposes.
We are "prepared" to provide a "cushion" equal to the current DEBT which should allow the AMERICAN CONTINENT to clean up her act and get on with the business of DOING THE BUSINESS OF THE "PEOPLE" instead of Corporations.
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 A National Debt Clock
The outstanding public debt as of 08/05/98 at 10:06:03 A.M. PDT was:
Since $5.5 trillion is a number that is hard to comprehend, we can calculate the per capita national debt by dividing the population of the U.S. into the national debt figure.
The private sector does not have a balanced budget either.
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 U.S. National Debt Clock
The Treasury Department's Bureau of Public Debt also has their own Public Debt FAQ.
Also, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Bureau of the Public Debt provides daily, monthly, and yearly figures for the Debt--to the penny!
U.S. The Outstanding Public Debt as of 09 Nov 2005 at 09:34:45 AM GMT is:
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