Another interesting exercise would be to show total debt for both the federal AND state governments. Wondering what the percentage of debt/GDP would be then? Do other countries exclude state/regional debt when determining their total debt?

Taking this even further, it would be interesting to see federal, state and municipal debt compounded. If the data is readily available it might take a while to compile such a thing, but I’d be interested to see how much is there.

Do you have figures or comparison of what is the private sector’s VS public sector’s portion of the debt?

I plan on doing another piece on debt sometime within the next week. This would be a good question to explore.