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The Numbers

The Numbers

Markets, the national debt, and the same year-to-date signals that run in the geopolitical report — straight from Treasury, FRED and the exchanges. No spin, just the arithmetic.

Market Tape

Live index levels versus the prior close. Refreshes every two minutes.

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The National Debt

Total public debt outstanding, extrapolated live from the last Treasury settlement at the trailing-year accrual rate.

U.S. Gross National Debt
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The Dollar

What a dollar is worth abroad — and what it still buys at home. Index quotes are live; the cross rates are the European Central Bank’s daily reference fixing.

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What the Dollar Buys

The other half of the story. Every figure is the CPI-U ratio — the same index the government uses to index its own obligations.

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Year-to-Date Signals

The charts that ship with the daily geopolitical report — crime, rates & credit, labor, housing, commodities and the dollar.

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Sources: U.S. Treasury “Debt to the Penny”, Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), Real-Time Crime Index, WARN Firehose, European Central Bank reference rates, and exchange quotes.
Denominators are official estimates; the per-taxpayer figure assumes the IRS filing rate.