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It's a model that creates big winners and lots of losers.
Ironically of course the other alternative is central planning which is a hallmark of communist economic systems.
> estimated to leave Chinese debt to GDP at 117%
Japan is 264%, Singapore 168%, the US 129%, France 112%, Canada is 107%, UK 97%, Germany 66%, Australia 22%, Afghanistan 7.4%, Kuwait 2.1%.
A debt ratio isn't particularly useful to know on it's own.
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It's a model that creates big winners and lots of losers.
Ironically of course the other alternative is central planning which is a hallmark of communist economic systems.
> estimated to leave Chinese debt to GDP at 117%
Japan is 264%, Singapore 168%, the US 129%, France 112%, Canada is 107%, UK 97%, Germany 66%, Australia 22%, Afghanistan 7.4%, Kuwait 2.1%.
A debt ratio isn't particularly useful to know on it's own.