Total US Debt Hits $16,369,548,799,604.93; Debt Ceiling Just $63 Billion Away!

• Total US Debt Hits $16,369,548,799,604.93; Debt Ceiling Just $63 Billion Away! 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  And so the US debt ceiling of $16.394 trillion is now just $63 billion away.
  Furthermore, once Thursday’s Bill auction adds another $26 billion in net debt, the ceiling will be a tiny $40 billion off, or just one week’s worth of net debt issuance away, which is why the Treasury just warned the debt ceiling will be breached in a few weeks. At that point, just like in August 2011, the Treasury will have no choice but to start raiding the G-fund, and other sundry government retirement funds, until such time in February or latest March, when the debt ceiling debate, and hike, can be no longer postponed.
  –
  Most importantly, since the debt ceiling is still in place, all wishes by Timmy G and other believes in Magic Money Trees notwithstanding, this is the one true deadline to get a joint Fiscal Cliff-cum-debt ceiling deal done. Which also means that despite all hopes to the contrary, it is now a virtual certainty that the US will enter 2013 without a Fiscal deal done, and will delay until the last possible moment, when America will have to once again add $2-3, maybe more, trillion to its debt ceiling, probably taking it as high as $21 trillion, which is where it will be by the time America will be preparing to usher in the next Wall Street pawn also known in polite circles as “president.”

end