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Debt clock runs out of spaces

       Updated: 10/7/2008 12:49:33 PM  Posted: 10/7/2008 7:51:27 AM
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Remember when gas stations ran out of the number "4" to put on their signage when prices skyrocketed? Well, there's a similar predicament in Times Square.

The National Debt Clock has run out of spaces to display $10 trillion in red numerals.

By adding $100 billion to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and $700 billion to bail out banks and the credit market, there's no room for more zeroes.

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