Free Parking - We owe $22Trillion and we only have

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2. Money vs. wealth

I guess the author is saying there's $1.7 trillion in currency, or bank deposits or some such.

But according to the Fed, the total wealth in the U.S. (which includes such things as houses, which are not money, but are wealth) is something north of $100 trillion.

Which seems to me to put a slightly different cast on the size of the national debt.

Not particularly arguing with the point of the piece. I'm entirely down with the fact that wealth distribution in this country (and the world in general) is all messed up.

But it seems to me to hurt the argument when you use dubious comparisons to kick it off.