Quote from: bryant.coleman on June 20, 2015, 12:27:49 PM

Russia:
Net Debt: $243 billion
Forex Reserves: $370 billion
Surplus: $127 billion

United States:
Net Debt: $18,315 billion
Forex Reserves: $121 billion
Deficit: $18,194 billion

Now, from these stats, who seems to be in financial trouble?

You should have expressed yourself in a different manner (i.e. the numbers). I actually thought at first that you wrote $18.315 billion and wanted to correct you. To clarify, we are talking about $18 Trillion USD debt. According to wikipedia it is 72.50% of the GDP while for Russia it is only 11.42%

Quote from: bitnanigans on June 20, 2015, 05:03:18 PM

Wow. The US net debt is a really huge number. How on earth did it get up to that?

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

From what I understand they plan to do a gas deal with them in addition to their help.