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Old 04-16-2016, 12:05 PM   #8 (permalink)
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A child is born $53,000 in debt, about 20 times what it was in 1971.
Are you sure? Is that like 1989 or whatever for climate change? What happens if you start from 1789?

I suspect that that is a share of the Corporate America National debt. I would include the opportunity cost from the front-running of seven generations' collective future.
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