US Public Debt Reaching Record Highs
The total public debt of the USA, the most indebted country in the world, reached an enormous 38.57 trillion dollars (or 38,570,000,000,000 dollars) in February this year, an increase of more than 2.8 trillion dollars compared to last year, according to data from the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress. In March, it already broke the 39 trillion dollar mark.