The National Debt has grown so large that it can no longer be displayed properly on the National Debt Clock in Times Square in New York.
The sign was originally put up in 1989 to highlight the then-staggering $2.9 trillion US debt. The debt, which now exceeds $10 trillion, is simply too large for the clock, which has run out of digits.
Douglas Durst, son of the late Seymour Durst, the clock’s inventor, says a new version will be installed sometime next year that can hold all the necessary digits. In the meantime, the dollar sign has been removed and replaced with a “1”.
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