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gave a mixed message, added to the fact that the display not being designed to properly run backward. In May 2000, it was reported that the clock was planned to be unplugged on September 7, 2000, what would have been Seymour Durst's 87th birthday. Douglas said that the decision to unplug the clock was made because "it was put up to focus attention on the increasing national debt, and it's served its purpose." In September, the clock was unplugged and covered with a red-white-and-blue curtain, with the national debt standing at roughly $ 5.7 trillion. However, less than two years later in July 2002, the curtain was raised and the clock once again picked up tracking a rising debt, starting at $ 6.1 trillion.
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In June 2017, the Durst Organization announced that the National Debt Clock would be moved again so that a new entrance for 1133 Avenue of the Americas could be built. The clock was moved to the western side of the Bank of America Tower, facing an alley in the middle of the block between Sixth Avenue
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In early 2000, the clock started to run backward because the national debt was actually decreasing. It showed a national debt of $ 5.7 trillion and an individual family share of almost $ 74,000. With the original purpose of the clock being to highlight the rising debt, the reversal of the figures
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Seymour's son Douglas said his father had been toying with the basic idea of drawing attention to the growing national debt since at least 1980, when during the holiday season he sent cards to senators and congressmen that said "Happy New Year. Your share of the national debt is $ 35,000". In the
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campaign employing an electronic billboard; instead of a debt, it tracked the supposed additional cost of using a rival chip. In 2010, a "death clock" modelled after the debt clock was erected in Times Square, counting how many maternal deaths happen worldwide every 90 seconds.
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that year. The original 11-by-26-foot (3.4 m Ă— 7.9 m) clock was constructed at a cost of $ 100,000. It cost $ 500 per month to maintain the display's 305 lightbulbs. It was mounted on a now-demolished Durst building at Sixth Avenue near 42nd Street (a block from
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could be built. An updated model was installed one block away on the side of a Durst building at 1133 Avenue of the Americas, facing Sixth Avenue near the southeast corner of the intersection with West 44th Street. The new clock is located next to an
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early 1980s, when Seymour first developed the idea of a constantly updated clock, the technology required to implement the project was not yet available. Back then, the debt was quickly approaching $ 1 trillion.
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emulating the then-typical character resolution of 5-by-7. Similar to the second clock, the updating mechanism was such that the display was set to the estimated speed of debt growth (
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An overhaul or complete replacement adding two more digits to the clock's display was being planned as of 2008. The clock would be able to show a debt of up to $ 1 quadrillion.
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reported that politicians were citing the clock to advocate for a reduction to the national budget. Various tracking counters of national debt are also kept online.
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Up until the week before his death in May 1995, Durst himself adjusted the tally via modem. After his death, his son Douglas became president of the
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In 2004, the original clock was moved from its location near 42nd Street, and the building where the sign had been mounted was demolished so the
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As of September 2009, Douglas Durst's cousin Jonathan "Jody" Durst was taking over the day-to-day operations as president. In an interview with
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The clock's first incarnation was installed in 1989 on Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets, one block away from
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The National Debt Clock has also been credited as the inspiration behind other running totalizers, such as an
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on September 30, 2008. In the farthest-left space, the debt clock displayed the digit "1" in place of the
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The idea of conveying a message through a periodically updated clock found an earlier expression in the
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and each American family's share of the debt. As of 2017, it is installed on the western side of the
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said that the clock represented the "unprecedented fiscal recklessness of the Obama administration."
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The first National Debt Clock was installed on February 20, 1989. The national debt stood at
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and 44th Street in February 2017, at which time it read $ 19.9 trillion in national debt
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German national debt clock at the Berlin headquarters of taxpayer watchdog group
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with multiple LEDs per segment, allowing the numbers to be read more easily.
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office. The new clock, which can run backward, is outfitted with a brighter
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Durst said in 2006 that the clock was a non-partisan effort to think about
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The first clock at the original location near Times Square (March 1989)
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Two displays related to the national debt were shown during the
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The clock is mentioned on the April 4, 2021, episode of
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Examples for online debt tracking resources include:
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Marino, Vivian; Herring, Hubert B. (July 14, 2002).
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Photo of the National Debt Clock at Sixth Avenue and 44th Street, at which time it read $ 19.9 trillion in national debt
Sixth Avenue
running total
display
United States gross national debt
Bank of America Tower
Sixth Avenue
42nd
Manhattan
New York City
debt clock
Times Square
Seymour Durst
intergenerational equity
Photo of the first National Debt Clock at the original location near Times Square
trillion
Times Square
Bryant Park
Artkraft Strauss
segment display
odometer
United States Treasury
Durst Organization
federal government shutdown
Photo of the National Debt Clock on September 24, 2004, at which time it read approximately US$ 7.3 trillion in national debt
Bank of America Tower
Internal Revenue Service
seven-segment display
financial crisis beginning in 2007

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