The USA's Debt Burden edged up slightly since last month, and so did the inflation rate. Also, I added a few more countries from the list in the CIA Factbook.
This chart is as current as I can make it from the official data available. For that reason, you'll notice a slight difference in the Debt Burden on this chart versus the number on the cause-of-change chart ("Why the Debt Burden increased in 2004"); there's a two-month difference, Feb-05 vs Dec-04, between the two different analyses. [Original article explaining the Debt Thermometer.]
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