In case you were wondering

This sent in from London by an institutional credit salesperson, a friend and former colleague.

A Visualization of United States debt

We have not verified the analysis, but thought it intriguing enough to share.

Update on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 08:23AM by hb

And let us quote from today's (7/27/11) Rates Strategy ! Treasury Morning Call of William O'Donnell of RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland).

•       "Secondly, this link was given to me by a friend in Asia and it will help to "frame" the debt ceiling debate: http://www.wtfnoway.com/  ..."
  

We stipulate the link has been making the rounds, but we're feeling a bit snippy this morning so we'll leave to our readers the assessment of the quality, timeliness, insight & hygiene eminating from capital constrained, self liquidating, opaquely risk stuffed financials owned by distressed soverign states.