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Coronavirus leaves a legacy of unprecedented global debt
By Dhara Ranasinghe and Karin Strohecker LONDON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Strangerland
China.
Serrano
China.
They may have some trouble collecting on all that. And any minute now Kamala Harris is going to demand that China make reparations for the damage caused by their coronavirus.
kurisupisu
Ineffectual governments are using the virus as a scapegoat-debt being passed on to later generations is feckless!
JeffLee
The countries that issue their own currency, have solid structure to their economies and borrow in their own currencies will be fine. Countries that borrow foreign money and Eurozone countries, however, could be in trouble.
1glenn
Interest rates are very low. Borrowing at low rates, in a good cause, seems worth it, to me.