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Imagine a country going bankrupt for debts at about 30% of global GDP.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re all going to suffer for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese national debt is well over 200% of GDP, compared to the Greek national debt of 140% or so which forced them into bankruptcy. Japan can afford it for the moment but when interest rates go up Japan may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/01\/why-is-noone-talking-about-japan-going-bankrupt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-7E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1873,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/06\/decline\/","url_meta":{"origin":474,"position":0},"title":"Decline","author":"taxicle","date":"June 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"At the moment the collective human mind is in an expansive mood because things are generally getting better and wealth is increasing. 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