National Debt reads $40.03T as of 2026-08-20. Change from prior reading: +0.02. Current value sits at the 100th percentile of the trailing 5 years. Sourced from treasury, refreshed every 6 hours, and free to access via the JSON API.
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Integrated Brief
Debt to the Penny — total public debt outstanding, published daily by the US Treasury. It is the sum of debt held by the public and intragovernmental holdings, so it is larger than the figure most deficit discussions use. Updated every business day with a two-to-four-day lag. A stock, not a flow: it is displayed as fiscal context and is not part of the DLI score.
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Current Interpretation
National Debt is currently 40.03 (daily change +0.02). Based on its standardized history position (z-score), the current read is "Tightening bias". Check related indicators to confirm whether this is isolated noise or a broader liquidity shift.
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National Debt is a core liquidity signal used to track funding conditions and risk appetite in US dollar markets.
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