sgray: > Herewith, then, I propose a readers' contest > to invent the next panic... > "This year, the debt will reach 63 percent of GDP, a ratio that has ignited crises in smaller wealthy nations. Fiscal crises gripped Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Ireland when their debts were below where the United States is shortly headed..."
Read more: 'National debt seen heading for crisis level' By Carolyn Lochhead San Francisco Chronicle, April 5, 2010 http://tinyurl.com/y8m4lzd