2026-02-26 02:56:34

🚨 GLOBAL DEBT JUST HIT $348 TRILLION 🚨

The Institute of International Finance (IIF) reports that global debt reached a record $348 TRILLION by the end of 2025.

That’s not the shocking part.

Debt surged nearly $29 TRILLION in just one year — the fastest annual increase since the early pandemic period.

And this time, it’s different.

This cycle isn’t being driven by households maxing out credit cards.
It’s not corporations levering up aggressively.

It’s governments.

According to the IIF’s latest Global Debt Monitor: Over $10 trillion of last year’s increase came from government borrowing

The global debt-to-GDP ratio now sits around 308%.
That means global debt is more than three times total global economic output.

While advanced economies have shown slight stabilization, emerging markets have seen their debt-to-GDP ratio reach a record of over 235%.

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