all with the latest data
9.8T in bailouts
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok
11T in government debts
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
17T in corporate debts
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/business/economy/04charts.html?em
1T in credit card debts
http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/opinion-americans-1-trillion-in-cr...
11T in mortgages
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aGq2B3XeGKok
52T in social security/medicare obligations
http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Medicare--Social-Security-Ow...
Like other government trust funds (highway, unemployment insurance and
so forth), the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds exist purely
for accounting purposes: to keep track of surpluses and deficits in
the inflow and outflow of money. The accumulated Social Security
surplus actually consists of paper certificates (non-negotiable bonds)
kept in a filing cabinet in a government office in West Virginia.
These bonds cannot be sold on Wall Street or to foreign investors.
They can only be returned to the Treasury. In essence, they are little
more than IOUs the government writes to itself.
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba616
200T in derivatives in banks
http://www.occ.treas.gov/deriv/deriv.htm
Not including derivatives; 101T. including it, 301T
Can't really pay it off anytime soon....
2.3T budget deficit this year. 10T in the next 10 years.
http://www.cnsnews.com/Public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=45528
The same goes for derivatives. Every liability on someone's books is an asset on someone else's. The real problem is that with all these financial firms going belly-up, we don't know who's holding the debt and who owes it.