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| | The Scale of the Debt Crisis - Global Issues |
 | | Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. |
 | | Their debt is 50 percent greater than this and has been compounding at twice that rate — over 20 percent per year between 1973 and 1993, from $100 billion to $1.5 trillion [only $400 billion of the $1.5 trillion was actually borrowed money. |
 | | The public debt of Belgium is approximately $ 250 billion, the public debt of France is $750 billion, the national debt of the United States is $5,000 billion, U.S. household debt is $6,000 billion, and the national debt of Japan at $2,000 billion. |
| www.globalissues.org /TradeRelated/Debt/Scale.asp (1901 words) |
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