It was certainly a knee-jerk reaction and totally my fault. I see the concepts of debt and deficit so frequently mixed that it's already in my muscle memory. Y

It was certainly a knee-jerk reaction and totally my fault. I see the concepts of debt and deficit so frequently mixed that it's already in my muscle memory. Your knee-jerk reaction was half right, by the way: I'm somewhere in Europe where billions and trillions have different meaning.