Showing posts with label external debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label external debt. Show all posts

Monday, July 19, 2010

I owe U, U owe me, We owe the future

I stumbled over a new very pedagogic interactive graphic of world debt, divided on households, government, financial and non financial companies, from the Economist and saw that usdebtclock.org had been updated to include real time numbers on external and public debt for a couple of countries.

They can be found here:
usdebtclock.org 
World debt 


















Ones again it worth the while to point out the importance between the implications of external and internal debt (if you owe other countries money or if you owe your own citizens).

If you are not 100 % sure about these terms here are two good definitions and explanations from wikipedia:

External debt
Internal debt