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The “clock” ticks real-time government data showing the ever-growing national debt — $36.9 trillion as of this writing — the most owed by any country or empire in human history.

Wall Street is now ‘aggressively’ tracking an asset that’s outpaced U.S. debt since the Obama era Wall Street is now closely tracking the asset once dismissed as a joke.

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Economics correspondent Paul Solman explains the ballooning national debt, how we got here and what it means for our economy and future generations.