The national debt road trip

By Prieur du Plessis, on July 13th, 2009 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

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How do the Obama deficits compare with past presidents? And how did the national debt get so big anyway. This novel video by Political Math tries to answer those questions by looking at the debt as a road trip …

Source: Political Math (via YouTube), May 15, 2009 (hat tip: James Korman).

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