IMF Paper Warns Of 'Savings Tax' And Mass Write-Offs As West's Debt Hits 200-Year High -- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Telegraph
Debt burdens in developed nations have become extreme by any historical measure and will require a wave of haircuts, warns IMF paper
Much of the Western world will require defaults, a savings tax and higher inflation to clear the way for recovery as debt levels reach a 200-year high, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund.
The IMF working paper said debt burdens in developed nations have become extreme by any historical measure and will require a wave of haircuts, either negotiated 1930s-style write-offs or the standard mix of measures used by the IMF in its “toolkit” for emerging market blow-ups.
“The size of the problem suggests that restructurings will be needed, for example, in the periphery of Europe, far beyond anything discussed in public to this point,” said the paper, by Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.
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