2026
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ICN Global Markets

Why governments are ‘addicted’ to debt?

Many investors have been warning that governments are addicted to debt for the past 20 years and the alarm bells are growing louder.

Developed economies around the world are loaded up with debt. That was less of a problem in the era of free money, but inflationary pressures are back, and structurally higher interest rates mean debt is more expensive to issue and service.

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