The Buck Stops Here.

"NYC National Debt Clock runs out of digits

Wed Oct 8, 10:03 PM ET

NEW YORK - In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.

As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure — the "1" in $10 trillion. It's marking the federal government's current debt at about $10.2 trillion.

The Durst Organization says it plans to update the sign next year by adding two digits. That will make it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars.

The late Manhattan real estate developer Seymour Durst put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $2.7 trillion debt."

Information Courtesy Of: News.Yahoo.Com


CHRIS LIVE AKA SHAKER SAYS: They have plans of adding 2 more digits to this iconic New York City sign thereby making it capable of "tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars"?  Remember when numbers that sounded like that were strictly the domain of sarcastic kids and Dr. Evil?  LOL.  I might have to create a "Sad But True" category here @ Livestyle. As if I had to tell Y.O.U. again - shit is very real.