anything to do with it. I mean, comparing GDP to debt by subtraction? How does that make sense? One of the posters there makes the point better than I could: "You’re comparing debt to GDP. This makes sense to ratio (i.e., the US government debt / GDP = 10.5 Bil / 13.8 Bil = 76%), but the subtraction is meaningless. The “per capita net worth” of a country would be total assets - total liabilities / # people. You’ve used GDP for assets. I don’t know what the total assets of the US are, I’ve looked but haven’t found a good source." I'm quite deathly curious to see how the actual numbers break down, but of course most of the debt of the companies in the U.S. is offshored to accounts in tax havens, so it'd be damn hard to tell what the actual breakdown would be.

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