Friday, March 09, 2012

Alarm sounds over Spain’s rising public debt

Alarm sounds over Spain’s rising public debt
By Victor Mallet in Madrid

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In the years of economic crisis since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, Spanish leaders have always been able to boast to nervous investors that Spain’s public debt burden – however bad its annual budget deficits – is smaller than Germany’s and well below the European Union average.
Economists, business executives and even government officials, however, have started to sound the alarm about the rapid and unsustainable growth of the country’s public debt.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/2c02be0c-6870-11e1-b803-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1odgBr95N

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