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Click and visit this interactive link below to find out who owes what to whom...let's annex some respite from the relentless daily drumbeats of a worldwide financial edifice on the verge of collapse...winter maybe on its way but it doesn't mean we cannot have some light-hearted fun...
Source BBC News: Debt Web - Who owes what to whom?
These insightful graphics from the British Broadcasting Corporation valiantly attempt to peel away the layers of national banking debt each of the major world economies is owed from another.
I want to believe Santa Claus has a distant cousin somewhere in Harbin...
Notes on the data:
The Bank for International Settlements data, represented by the proportional arrows, shows what banks in one country are owed by debtors - both government and private - in another country. It does not include non-bank debts. Only key eurozone debtors and their top creditors are shown. Although China is known to hold European debt, no comprehensive figures are available.
GDP figures are the latest complete 2010 figures from the IMF. The percentage of gross government debt to GDP is also the latest IMF calculation.
Overall foreign (or gross external) debt is taken from the latest 2011 World Bank/IMF figures and includes all debt owed overseas, including that owed by governments, monetary authorities, banks and companies.
Gross foreign debt per person is calculated using the latest medium variant population figures from the UN Population Division.
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