Tag Archives: Sovereign Debt

The Yoke is Hard and the Debt Burden is Heavy

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

We found this table from Brookings very interesting.  The net public debt per worker of the Advanced Economies in the G20 has increased from US$33K in 2007 t0 US$50.2 in 2010, an increase of 50 percent and projected to grow … Continue reading →

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Europe’s Ricardian Equivalence vs America’s Keynesianism

Posted on October 11, 2010 by

We thought this to be the most interesting chart of the recently released World Economic Outlook from the IMF.  Japan’s 2011 public sector funding requirement is a stunning 60 percent of GDP, which includes the rollover of maturing debt equivalent … Continue reading →

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