This was posted on the Wall Street Journal’s email Opinion Journal – Best of the Web Today. I thank Todd Ryan for adding it to the collection.

The “debt clock” is back. The late New York developer Seymour Durst erected the clock — actually a billboard — in midtown Manhattan in 1989 to track the total level of federal debt as well as “your family’s share.” It went dark in 2000, as the debt was decreasing, but the recent deficits … Read the rest...