[10thzodiac]

According to recent Chicago Trib article the following debt exists as a percent of GDP:

Japan Iceland Italy Greece Belgium
197% 145% 127% 123% 105%

France US Canada Germany
92% 86% 82% 92%

How bad off are we? I duno. How bad off is everyone else? The same or worse. Possible solutions? World war?

How do you get a planet full of people to pull their head out of their ass?

Do you know where I can get a fiddle for the impending fire?

[TigerLikesRooster]

The first thing to do is to secure a place where you can play fiddle. It may be harder than getting a fiddle, because just about everywhere would be on fire.

[Travis McGee]

The global future is option two. What follows, I don't know. World war, global depression, an attempt to foist a new global central bank on us, with a single global fiat currency, a return to the gold standar....the field is wide open. But the fiat era is ending.

"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."

-~~Ludwig Von Mises