A World Overflowing With Debt

Does anybody still remember 2007?
Photographer: Simon Dawson
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The world economy is still built on debt.

That's the warning today from McKinsey & Co.'s research division which estimates that since 2007, the IOUs of governments, companies, households and financial firms in 47 countries has grown by $57 trillion to $199 trillion, a rise equivalent to 17 percentage points of gross domestic product.