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The $100 Trillion Global Debt Bomb and Financial Shock Risk

The $100 Trillion Global Debt Bomb and Financial Shock Risk
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In October, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that “our forecasts point to an unforgiving combination of low growth and high debt, a difficult future,” emphasizing that “governments must work to reduce debt and rebuild buffers for the next shock, which will surely come, and maybe sooner than we expect.”