Learn the facts about cold sores so you can face every cold sore with confidenceâfrom the first tingle until itâs bye-bye blister. 1  Most nonprescription treatments work the same way. 2  Cold sores are only contagious when you can see a blister. 3  The cold sore virus (HSV-1) cannot spread beyond the lip area.
It came up with a total debt of $2 trillion for all states. California still owes the most under the alternative computation, but the state's total debt drops significantly, to $307 billion. With the Pew numbers, New Jersey follows with $183 billion of debt and Illinois is next at $150 billion.
(Source: Debt to the Penny, U.S. Treasury. Debt FAQ, U.S. Treasury.) America's debt is the largest in the world for a single country. It runs neck and neck with that of the European Union, an economic union of 28 countries. For more, see Sovereign Debt Rankings. The debt is greater than what America produces in a whole year. This high debt-to-GDP ratio tells investors that the country might have problems repaying the loans. That's a new and worrying occurrence for the United States. In 1988, the debt was only half of America's economic output.