Guess When We Hit $15 Trillion in Debt

renman95 · October 28, 2011 5:21AM

$15,000,000,000,000.00

ksammut · October 28, 2011 5:34AM

November 30, 2011 at 10:45 AM EST. LOL

JimDepot · October 28, 2011 6:06AM

12 zeros,,, kinda like the "super committee".

Wingsrule · October 28, 2011 6:15AM

11/28/11 02:13:15 am ET (adjusted for daylight savings)

PerryHall · October 28, 2011 6:22AM

Before the next election.

roadrunner · October 28, 2011 6:34AM

December 12th....4 PM eastern time.

Better question, on what date will the debt be fully repaid, repudiated, or forgiven?

roadrunner

fivecents · October 28, 2011 6:43AM

Christmas eve.

Justacommeman · October 28, 2011 6:49AM

Geez, that is scary. It reminded me of the taxi meter going from the Malpensa airport to the center of Milan. MJ

pragmaticgoat · October 28, 2011 6:51AM

like age, the older we get the faster it seems to go!

cohodk · October 28, 2011 7:36AM

I like this one

Or this one

But I really wish there was one that showed the total of global govt, municipal, corporate and personal (consumer) debt. I think the total is something like $350 TRILLION.

stevek · October 28, 2011 9:45AM

Reminds me of an auction....10 trillion, 12 trillion, 14 trillion...do I hear 15 trillion?...and the politicians just keep saying "Yes" to the next amount.

MsMorrisine · October 28, 2011 12:52PM

there is no way all this global debt is repaid.

I guess we will all have a "global haircut day" one day soon. (similar to Greece where everyone gets a lot less money, but no one defaults)

All those fearing financial turmoil will just have to be out of anything owning global gov't debt.

renman95 · October 28, 2011 3:09PM

<< Geez, that is scary. It reminded me of the taxi meter going from the Malpensa airport to the center of Milan. MJ >>

I've done that ride and know what you mean.

piecesofme · October 28, 2011 8:31PM

Famous line applies for this question..."in my mind, i'm already there."

2ndCharter · October 28, 2011 9:06PM

Better question, on what date will the debt be fully repaid, repudiated, or forgiven?

Why does the date April 1st come to mind?

MsMorrisine · October 29, 2011 6:18AM

My figerin' is Dec 11th.

jmski52 · October 29, 2011 12:32PM

Comrade, I'm scared to even think about it. Do you remember the old joke about Congressional spending? It goes, "a million here, a million there - pretty soon it starts adding up to REAL MONEY".

Well, we are long beyond that joke.

renman95 · October 30, 2011 1:45AM

<< Comrade, I'm scared to even think about it. Do you remember the old joke about Congressional spending? It goes, "a million here, a million there - pretty soon it starts adding up to REAL MONEY".

Well, we are long beyond that joke. >>

It's more like a Shakespearean tragedy. King Lear comes to mind.

cladking · October 30, 2011 5:59AM

April 27, 2012.

It will accelerate so I'll guess April 15.

roadrunner · October 30, 2011 9:54AM

Didn't realize how fast the interest accrues on this. So much for linear estimates. Now getting about 26 days to go which jumps it to just before Thanksgiving. That's several weeks
ahead of Friday's guess where it was adding about $1.7M per minute. Now it's up to around $2.3M/min. Will probably end up being mid-November if not earlier.

roadrunner

renman95 · November 7, 2011 5:47AM

$14.98 Trillion now.

Comrades, this snuck up on us fast.

No one was close.

MsMorrisine · November 7, 2011 6:17AM

only 35billion left

linear it ain't

roadrunner · November 7, 2011 9:52AM

<< $14.98 Trillion now.
Comrades, this snuck up on us fast.
No one was close. >>

But some were much closer than others. Heck, even a 5th grader knows how compounding interest works.....

roadrunner

Justacommeman · November 7, 2011 2:29PM

<< $14.98 Trillion now.

Comrades, this snuck up on us fast.

No one was close. >>

Wow. it will hit 15 trillion before the 25th Anniversary ASE's even ship. That was fast. Bummer. MJ

Wingsrule · November 7, 2011 7:27PM

$14.967T as of 6:25 ET 11/08.

renman95 · November 7, 2011 7:40PM

Is anyone going to watch the crossover?

renman95 · November 7, 2011 7:45PM

Just had a thought. This will occur very close to the EAS test/shutdown of 3 minutes. Coincidence.

Baley · November 8, 2011 1:00AM

I'll predict 13 days from right now: 9am on 11/21/2011

cohodk · November 8, 2011 1:07AM

November 18 at 6:44pm EST

MsMorrisine · November 8, 2011 6:48AM

little under $31 billion left

it's going fast.

WinPitcher · November 8, 2011 10:04AM

Does Mr. Rothschild really expect to collect on this debt and for that matter the worlds?

renman95 · November 8, 2011 10:04PM

<< Does Mr. Rothschild really expect to collect on this debt and for that matter the worlds? >>

No, he was expecting a constant cash flow...

renman95 · November 9, 2011 6:33AM

<< little under $31 billion left

it's going fast. >>

One day later $26.7B left. At this rate the crossover should be in less than 7 days...around the 15th or 16th.

Wingsrule · November 9, 2011 9:29AM

Clicking along at ~$38,000 per second. New estimate of 11/17 11:02pm

MsMorrisine · November 9, 2011 12:17PM

<< Clicking along at ~$38,000 per second. New estimate of 11/17 11:02pm >>

that rate is accelerating at a very quick clip.

renman95 · November 13, 2011 9:32AM

$14.988T

2ndCharter · November 13, 2011 10:07PM

$9 Billion to go as of a few minutes ago....

stevek · November 13, 2011 11:44PM

I'm looking forward to 20 and then 100 and more because it might be fun bringing a wheelbarrow full of money to the supermarket to buy a loaf of bread.

johnny9434 · November 14, 2011 3:21AM

the next erection errr election sorry

renman95 · November 15, 2011 10:03PM

$14.998T

jmski52 · November 15, 2011 11:11PM

Just in time for the supercommittee report.

cladking · November 16, 2011 12:17AM

<< Does Mr. Rothschild really expect to collect on this debt and for that matter the worlds? >>

No. He already owns everything several times over and is now just trying to suck
up all the errant wealth. When you put a dollar in his hands he gives you .5%
interest and then loans that same dollar to as many as twenty other people at
interest rates as much as 50 times what he pays you. He already owns all the
gold in the world and has sold it to ten or twenty people as well. A lot of people
think they own their stash but it's really just on loan until he wants it back.

cladking · November 16, 2011 12:20AM

14.999

There goes my guess unless Congress finds some self restraint in the next few hours.

DrBuster · November 16, 2011 12:28AM

Mil every 32 seconds, so today then basically.

Wingsrule · November 16, 2011 1:17AM

~$43,500 per second. At that rate, it will happen just after the markets close this afternoon. (4:04:15 ET)

Wingsrule · November 16, 2011 4:10AM

Too late. Already happened.

roadrunner · November 16, 2011 8:23AM

roadrunner

renman95 · November 16, 2011 8:48AM

Congratulations Comrades!!!!

renman95 · November 16, 2011 9:10AM

Okay, now what? Predict $20T? When is that going to be? Second year of Dear Leader's second term?

jmski52 · November 16, 2011 9:16AM

Okay, now what? Predict $20T? When is that going to be? Second year of Dear Leader's second term?

I did not know that the bankers were going to give him a 2nd term! Have I been out of touch this last half $trillion?

ksammut · November 16, 2011 9:51AM

Fed Now Largest Owner of U.S. Gov’t Debt—Surpassing China

Guess When We Hit $15 Trillion in Debt

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