{"id":536547,"date":"2010-04-21T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:425929"},"modified":"2010-04-21T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T11:50:00","slug":"world-debt-problem-not-as-bad-as-late-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/536547","title":{"rendered":"World debt problem not as bad as late-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the world\u2019s debt problem isn\u2019t so quite so bad as some commentators fear, says <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/global_debt_to.html\" >Paul Kedrosky<\/a>. The author and entrepreneur calculated the globe\u2019s debt to equity ratio for 2005 to 2010 and found that the ratio today is lower than it was in late 2008, despite the issuance of billions upon billions in government debt in the interim. <\/p>\n<p>Kedrosky notes that the fall in the ratio owes little to paying down debt. Much of the decline is the result of the rise in world stock markets, particularly in emerging markets. <\/p>\n<p>However you slice it, though, the value of global debt is still twice as large as the value of global equity. If the world were a company, a debt-to-equity ratio of that size would be cause for concern. Today\u2019s ratio is well above the level of 2005 to 2007.<\/p>\n<p><i>Freelance business journalist <b>Ian McGugan<\/b> blogs for the Financial Post<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=425929\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the world\u2019s debt problem isn\u2019t so quite so bad as some commentators fear, says Paul Kedrosky. The author and entrepreneur calculated the globe\u2019s debt to equity ratio for 2005 to 2010 and found that the ratio today is lower than it was in late 2008, despite the issuance of billions upon billions in government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4059,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}