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Fiscal Death Watchlist

June 11, 2013 · by · in Canadian economy, Finance, Fiscal policy, Livio Di Matteo · 11 Comments

I found Nick Rowe’s post Is Japan Already Dead quite inspiring so I decided to dig up the most current IMF World Economic Outlook Database for numbers on net debt to GDP ratios.  Japan – which may already be dead – has a net debt to GDP ratio in 2012 of 134 percent.  An estimate […]