Debt obligations of the United States reached a new record

According to the U.S. Treasury, foreign debt reached a record $ 13 trillion and accounts for 90% of GDP. Remarkably, only in the last decade it has increased three-fold. And for two presidential terms of George W. Bush, it rose by 4.9 trillion dollars, during the reign of Barack Obama, January 2009 - another 2.4 trillion dollars. Also according to the U.S. Treasury, federal budget deficit in April 2010 amounted to 82.69 billion dollars, compared with 20.9 billion a year earlier. Recall that in the beginning of April the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the budget deficit threatens U.S. economic recovery and must be taken to its rapid decline.