https://evan.wtf/tags/debt-ceiling/Recent content in Debt Ceiling on Evan HoffmanHugoen-USEvan HoffmanWed, 27 Jul 2011 13:14:10 +0000https://evan.wtf/2011/07/27/us-public-debt-historical/Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:14:10 +0000https://evan.wtf/2011/07/27/us-public-debt-historical/<p>In a recent &ldquo;debate&rdquo; with a friend, I looked for historical data about the US public debt. I found <a href="http://www.google.com/publicdata/overview?ds=z6tggkh2adod2s_">Google Public Data</a>, which has info about the annual budget deficit/surplus, but apparently (oddly) doesn&rsquo;t have the debt. Odd because this info is available <a href="http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/histdebt/histdebt.htm">on the Treasury website</a>.</p> <p>I copied &amp; pasted the data into Google Docs and made <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Arz9JIGL5KjodGlHZjZyRE9YXzBRd0JpVDRKWkE1d0E&amp;hl=en_US">a chart of my own</a> and some basic comparisons over time. Here are some of them rendered as images, though the scale makes the horizontal access kind of useless. I tried embedding the interactive Flash-based graph but it didn&rsquo;t work. Oh well.</p>