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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.”

Daniel Lacalle
Daniel Lacalle
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Daniel Lacalle, Ph.D., is chief economist at hedge fund Tressis and author of the bestselling books “Freedom or Equality” (2020), “Escape from the Central Bank Trap” (2017), “The Energy World Is Flat”​ (2015), and “Life in the Financial Markets.”