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by squibbles 1950 days ago
A series of charts plotted by Wolfram Alpha (for US data) shows that debt seems to go up, steadily, forever. [1] The steady rise of debt seems to be a phenomenon independent of specific events. Perhaps this is simply a long-term effect of interdependency.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=chart+of+debt+to+gdp