id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3929 Financial position of the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 5913 698 64 As of 2009, there was $50.7 trillion of debt owed by US households, businesses, and governments, representing more than 3.5 times the annual gross domestic product of the United States.[3] As of the first quarter of 2010, domestic financial assets[b] totaled $131 trillion and domestic financial liabilities $106 trillion.[4] Tangible assets in 2008 (such as real estate and equipment) for selected sectors[c] totaled an additional $56.3 trillion.[6] The net worth of the United States sharply declined to 5.2 times GDP by the end of 2008 due to declines in the values of US corporate equities and real estate in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis and the global financial crisis. Credit market debt by sector and asset class (2010 Q1) owed by the United States in billions USD[13] As of the first quarter of 2010, the Federal Reserve estimated that total public and private debt owed by American households, businesses, and government totaled $50 trillion, or roughly $175,000 per American and 3.5 times GDP.[13] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3929.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3929.txt