A few excerpts from the Wolfram|Alpha blog: Today the president’s Office of Management and Budget raised its projected 10-year budget deficit to $9.05 trillion dollars. Therefore, the current US national debt of $11.13 trillion dollars is expected to grow to around $20 trillion dollars by 2019. That’s a lot of money. So much money, that [...]
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