And Now For A Moment of Zen…
February 29th, 2008 Posted in alert!, fyi, list-o-mania, the good, the bad, and the otherwise, what's going on??
National Account Balance estimates from the CIA World Fact Book (published 12th February 2008)
- 1st: China $363,300,000,000
- 5th: Russia $74,000,000,000
- 14th: Canada $28,460,000,000
- 161st: United Kingdom $-111,000,000,000
- 163rd (last place): United States $-747,100,000,000
Not on this list but notable is Iraq ($7.802 billion – 2007 est.), Iran ($19 billion – 2007 est.) and Cuba (-$750 million – 2007 est.).
Tags: sad state
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I hear all the time about how the U.S. is in debt, but last place??? Wow.