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Some of these graphs are much more confusing than they need to be. The money scales should remain more consistent. Most of the graphs are scaled in billions of
by samdk 17y ago
Some of these graphs are much more confusing than they need to be.
The money scales should remain more consistent. Most of the graphs are scaled in billions of dollars, but one is in trillions, and one is (completely inexplicably) in millions of dollars.
The 'Strategic Petroleum Reserve' chart doesn't tell me much. It tells us a value of the strategic petroleum reserves once, and then gives two values for the price of a barrel. Which is being used to calculate the total value?
The brown/grey background also makes several of the charts much more difficult to read. It's very hard to see any but the darkest-colored countries on the map of foreign countries that hold US national debt.
- joe_the_user 17y agoYes, it's a terrible page. I have no idea how it got to the front page. Half the debt figures are future projected values and we know how dubious those are. Even more, the time scale isn't consistent. It starts with ten year jumps and then shifts to one jumps and then goes into the future. One interesting thing is showed was that China seemed to hold no more than about 5% of US debt - but since it only gave visual illustration, the figure is sadly inexact.