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I thought the US GDP was around $14 trillion give or take what is in fact irrelavent.........and that the debt load for the Federal govt alone was something around $14 trillion...
The original historical chart only tracks “Federal Debt held by the public”.
The over 14 trillion debt that you are referring to is “Total Federal Debt”.
This includes:
1) Federal debt held by public
2) Debt held by the Federal government (e.g. Social Security IOU’s)
3) Monetized debt (e.g. debt held by Federal Reserve)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt