A simple example showing what happens when you only pay the minimun monthly payment on your credit card debt. I submitted this to Longshot magazine’s issue on Debt but my graphic didn’t make it in but you can take a look at the other submissions on their site.
Homemade video trying to show why it is not a problem that China owns part of the U.S. government’s debt. Scroll 3 minutes into the video and you can see how he used low-tech paper to explain what would happen if we pay down the debt. No fancy graphics needed.
From Numbrary. This site provides simple graphs for many different economic data sets and groups them by subject. The example below should the data for US Debt. Also allows users to upload data.