Over at SeekingAlpha, they’ve updated their US National Debt visualizations and come up with some new charts like the one above. While at first it may not seem so bad, look closer at that left axis: It’s logarithmic.
The national debt data used in the charts above is for the United States’ total public debt outstanding, which includes the so-called intragovernmental holdings category, which mostly represents where surplus Social Security tax collections have gone since the early 1980s.
Looking at linear axes make for near right-angle graphs.
via Visualizing the U.S. National Debt: 1791-2010 – Seeking Alpha.
