A deep dive into the last quarter of a century of debt

When David Graeber wrote “Debt: The first 5,000 years”, a book which, as the title suggests, offers a controversial interpretation of the history of debt, the notion of borrowing and lending, of bonds, coupons and principal made it into the mainstream. In this chart pack, we look at a small chapter of this long history, zooming in on the last 25 years of public debt.

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