Global debt levels rose to more than 325 percent of the world's gross domestic product last year as government debt rose sharply, a report from the Institute for International Finance showed on Wednesday.
The IIF's report found that global debt had risen more than $11 trillion in the first nine months of 2016 to more than $217 trillion. The report also found that general government debt accounted for nearly half of the total increase.
Emerging market debt rose substantially, as government bond and syndicated loan issuance in 2016 grew to almost three times its 2015 level.
Source: Reuters
(Score: 2) by VanessaE on Saturday January 07 2017, @05:31AM
(Horst Buchholz and James Cagney, after going over a list of expenditures, One, Two, Three)
I used to think this was just a joke, but now I have to wonder.