Editorial log
What’s new
A record of the work done on this site: pages added, articles rewritten, features built. Every entry has a date and points at the thing that changed. It is the short answer to the question of whether anyone is still minding the place.
2026
- Rewritten
Ten state pages got an editorial note of their own
Each of the ten state pages now says what its four figures show and what they do not, written per state rather than from a template.
- New page
The monthly debt report
A written account of the month just closed: what the debt did, what it cost, and what to watch next. First edition covers September 2026.
- New feature
Review dates and a revision log on every explainer
Each article now shows when it was last reviewed, and what changed in that version.
- Rewritten
All nine explainers rewritten and expanded
Each one is now three to four times longer, with the sections a reader actually asks for, and a visible note on what changed.
- New page
Debt limit tracker
The statutory ceiling, the debt subject to it and the room left, updated every business day.
- New page
Corrections log
Every change to a published item, shown with the before and after text and the reason.
- New feature
Cite this page
APA, MLA and Chicago formats under every explainer and every glossary entry, generated from the page itself.
- New page
Eight glossary entries became pages of their own
Average interest rate, rollover, the Treasury General Account, the federal funds rate, bid-to-cover, marketable debt, the CBO and the Monthly Treasury Statement.
- New page
US debt by year
Every fiscal year since 1790, with the yearly change and the debt as a share of the economy.
- Rewritten
Editorial notes on the data pages
A short hand-written note under the numbers on nine pages, saying what they show and when a person last read them.
- Rewritten
The site has a named author
Articles are written and reviewed by Roman & Team, and say so. The same name carries the structured data.
- New page
Twelve calculators
Mortgage, car loan, savings, inflation, a rate shock and your share of the debt, all running in the browser.
- New page
News and data releases
Auction results, the monthly deficit and Fed decisions, each generated from an official source with a link to it.
- New page
The Fed section and the state pages
The balance sheet, policy rate, yield curve and projections, plus federal money in and out of each state.
- New feature
The glossary
One hundred terms, each defined in a sentence and linked wherever it appears.
- New page
The site goes live
The live debt clock, per-person figures, interest, debt to GDP and the printable one-pager.
Three different logs, on purpose
News is what the government published: auction results, the monthly deficit, Fed decisions. It is generated from official sources and it is not editorial work.
Corrections is mistakes: a published item that was wrong and was fixed, shown with the before and after.
This page is neither. It is the work done on the site itself, and it exists because “continuously maintained” is a claim that deserves a record rather than a sentence in the footer.