(Financial Times) The world is $152tn in the red — a record-breaking level of debt, according to the International Monetary Fund.
The figure, more than two times the size of the global economy, comes from the fund’s latest Fiscal Monitor and is, officials claim, the most accurate measure of the world’s debt burden ever calculated.
“Global debt is at record highs and rising,” said Vitor Gaspar, director of fiscal affairs at the fund.
