FAQ About the Budget and the National Debt The U.S. Treasury's Office of Public Correspondence tries to answer some of the safer questions on the National Debt. http://www.ustreas.gov/opc/opc0037.html

Debt Clock A Java-based national debt clock, calculates the Debt, including your own portion of it and many similar things, every second. http://www.toptips.com/debtclock.html

U.S. National Debt Clock Another National Debt clock, this one not in Java, with many useful links, and a National Debt FAQ. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

Deficits, the National Debt, and Economic Growth A new, optimistic view on an old subject. This website emphasizes the importance of economic growth and seeks to dispel some myths about deficits. http://web2.airmail.net/scsr/

Budget Explorer: The Complete U.S. Federal Budget Explore the entire U.S. Federal Budget quickly and easily. Find solutions to reduce the National Debt. Learn how others have balanced the budget, and how your Federal taxes are spent. http://www.kowaldesign.com/budget/

The Public Debt To the Penny The United States public debt--to the penny http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm

Grandfather Federal Government Debt Report by MWHodges Information on the National Debt, including who the money is owed to, how much worse it is than ever before, how the "budget surplus" is fake, and how the debt is still growing. http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/debt.htm

Federal Budget Spending, National Debt, Deficit Is there a budget surplus? You can find out for yourself. If the National Debt is increasing, then the Treasury Department is borrowing, and there must be a deficit. http://www.federalbudget.com/

Flashback - The Balanced-Budget Debate The Atlantic Monthly's review of its own century of articles takes a look at Federal deficits and debt. As always, they lean toward the "Liberal" viewpoint, but "Conservatives" should find also it fascinating nonetheless. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/budget/budgint.htm

The Mechanics of Inflation A detailed analysis of the mechanics of "the great modern government swindle known as inflation." http://www.abelard.org/inflation.htm

A Better Auction Mechanism, And Why Governments Should Sell Futures Rather Than Debt Paper outlining the need for governments to stop selling debt through their current, primitive methods, and a suggestion for a replacement. http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/finmkts/auctionette.html

Coalition on Human Needs Budget Page Federal budget issues page of the Coalition on Human Needs, a coalition of major U.S. anti-poverty organizations. Includes status of major budget legislation. http://www.chn.org/issues/maintopic.asp?iss=1

CCER National Budget Simulation This is a creative and interactive page presented by UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research (CCER). A new on-line National Federal Budget Simulator lets anyone on the World Wide Web attempt to balance the budget. Your choices and the actual budget can be shown graphically also. http://www.budgetsim.org/nbs/

Internet Taxes ban supported by President Bush George Bush promises to hold back on the implementation of Internet Taxation in the face of a projected of $5 trillion dollar budget surplus. http://www.infinisource.com/features/internet-tax.html