Too much debt and too little financial discipline


Asia’s finance experts see both as harbingers of the next financial crisis

THE world is flushed with debt – right now nearly US$250 trillion, up 8% from a year ago. This level, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF), is three times what it was two decades ago and relative to GDP, global debt exceeded 318%.

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