The United States Public Debt – Click here for Live Status If
our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill.
The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good, also.
Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers
and the other helps the people. (Thomas Edison, The New York
Times 6 December 1921) - Debt Held by the Public, representing
all federal securities held by institutions or individuals
outside the United States Government; - Intragovernmental
Holdings, representing U.S. Treasury securities held in accounts
which are administered by the United States Government, such as
the OASI Trust fund administered by the Social Security
Administration; and - Total Public Debt Outstanding, which is
the sum of the above components. As of May 6, 2011, the Total
Public Debt Outstanding of the United States of America was
$14.32 trillion and was approximately 98% of calendar year
2010′s annual gross domestic product (GDP) of $14.66 trillion.
Using 2010 figures, the total debt (96.