The U.S. Debt Graph Up Until 2020

It took the USA 218 years to grow its national debt to 9 Trillion dollars. Take a look at the graph above. From 1792 to 1980, the national debt, while rising as the 20th Century progressed, was still under 1 Trillion dollars.

Between 1980 and 2010, the debt ballooned to that 9 Trillion dollar figure…

…but what’s scary is that in the space of just 7 years, between 2010 and 2017, successive US government administrations …

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