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2024-12-10 16:39:26

DanDjarin on Nostr: While doing some research for a presentation I’m preparing, I had the idea of ...

While doing some research for a presentation I’m preparing, I had the idea of plotting the US national debt over time on a log scale. It really surprised me when plotted like this how linear it appeared.
If you take out the major wars it was pretty flat prior to 1971 (when Nixon left the gold standard), but with the wars, it was almost growing faster than it is now.
In other words the national debt has been growing fairly consistently in the past 200 years at an exponential rate.
P.S. I didn’t put much effort into the chart, I just used default settings in Excel and changed it to a log scale. Someone with better graphic design skills and more time could/should put this in a more shareable format if they find it interesting.
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