$277,000,000,000,000 of Global Debt: Who Owes it & To Whom? - TLDR News

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    Money is a complicated thing. Trillions of dollars worth move every single day, but $27 Trillion Dollars of that is global debt? But what does that mean? In this video we explain what global debt is, who owes it and to who?
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  • @CarFreeSegnitz
    @CarFreeSegnitz Před 3 lety +2459

    It’s all fun & games until the Bank of Alpha Centauri calls in Earth’s global debt.

  • @mandategaming
    @mandategaming Před 3 lety +2880

    277 trillion debt
    At least half is the amount my sister owes me

    • @darkyada71
      @darkyada71 Před 3 lety +97

      Does this mean your sister is responsible for like all the States' debt combined

    • @mandategaming
      @mandategaming Před 3 lety +95

      Yes

    • @abhigyanbg5764
      @abhigyanbg5764 Před 3 lety +15

      Are you Claire from Fleabag?

    • @mandategaming
      @mandategaming Před 3 lety +2

      @@abhigyanbg5764 no

    • @giv-0234
      @giv-0234 Před 3 lety +16

      i have 86 trillion$ i am richest man in universe

  • @garth2356
    @garth2356 Před 3 lety +1461

    I want one full video with this guy just spiralling without any cuts 😂

  • @AUstinnesc
    @AUstinnesc Před rokem +306

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  • @nqh4393
    @nqh4393 Před 3 lety +91

    This video was released 500 years too early.
    Greetings from the Imperial Territories of Prussian Mars.

  • @tristancarr2112
    @tristancarr2112 Před 3 lety +647

    Japan: "Hey Dave. We're in a lot of debt and just don't know what to do"
    Dave Ramsey: "Sell the car, get a second income, beans and rice, rice and beans"

    • @dominick6131
      @dominick6131 Před 3 lety +72

      I think they got the rice part covered

    • @wycanygmailcom521
      @wycanygmailcom521 Před 3 lety +8

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 Před 3 lety +45

      @@dominick6131 They also sell more cars than any other country.

    • @JJs_playground
      @JJs_playground Před 3 lety +8

      Lmfao, underrated comment

    • @JJs_playground
      @JJs_playground Před 3 lety +11

      Japan: we are looking at a Tuba degree.
      Dave Ramsey: sell the car, beans and rice, rice and beans.

  • @chrish1857
    @chrish1857 Před 3 lety +46

    277 trillion in debt for Earth? Good luck getting that back.
    Earth: Slowly rotates

  • @H0SKING
    @H0SKING Před 3 lety +351

    This video really needs more depth. Global debt is pretty simple as a concept but it would be interesting to us TLDR fans to understand the consequences of debt interest being larger than the gdp of a country and whether this is sustainable.
    Also, what effect does this borrowing and debt have on countries in the short term and long term using specific economies as examples.
    P.s Love your videos and very appreciative of all your hard work!

    • @ArawnOfAnnwn
      @ArawnOfAnnwn Před 3 lety +14

      It's not supposed to be sustainable. It's a red flag if a country owes more than a 100% of its GDP. It suggests they're heading for a default. However, some countries (notably Japan) seem to get away with it for a long period of time (which is why Japan, as well as Argentina for other reasons, famously flummoxes economists). Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) partially arose to help explain this, however it's still very contentious among economists. It's also not the kind of topic that lends itself to a TL;DR video treatment, btw.

    • @crosstraffic187
      @crosstraffic187 Před 3 lety +4

      @@ArawnOfAnnwn Japan is biggest owner of US foreign debt.

    • @Haijwsyz51846
      @Haijwsyz51846 Před 2 lety +5

      @@ArawnOfAnnwn Japan's debt was owed to its own people. Argentina owed foreign debt. Makes difference. In US, most of the debt owed is domestic. The government can make good of the foreign debt, but skin the domestic debt. Japan owes a lot of domestic debt, but Japan lends money to US. Same is China.

    • @sten260
      @sten260 Před 2 lety +3

      Japan actually produces stuff, that's why they get away with large debt. Venezuela doesn't produce anything except oil and thats why they have hyperinflation, rich countries produce, poor countries consume

    • @Leptospirosi
      @Leptospirosi Před rokem +1

      @@ArawnOfAnnwn the main reason because certain nations like Japan and the USA get away with their huge debt, is because of perceived solvability from a somehow steady economy and because they "own" most of their own internal debt (4:49), compared to Argentina and others who borrowed heavily from international services.
      This means that most of the money are borrowed from their own economies rather then from outside.
      Italy, which has a similar kind of debt to Japan, compared to, for example, Greece, faces more of a "bureaucratic" problem as it's pre € economic model clashes with the rules established in Bruxelles, which makes no difference from where the debt comes from.

  • @michaeljf6472
    @michaeljf6472 Před 3 lety +476

    Oh.. I've seen this one. It's like when the Galactic Republic, during the Clone Wars, owed the Intergalactic Banking Clan a lot of credits so the senate nationalized it instead

  • @mandingo9928
    @mandingo9928 Před 3 lety +95

    "who tf do we owe? the decepticons?"

  • @RobloxAciko
    @RobloxAciko Před 3 lety +73

    Johny owes Ted 1M
    Ted owes Sally 2M
    Sally Owes Lilly 4M
    Lilly Owes Alen 10m
    Alen Owes U.S.A goverment 277T dollars

  • @BateserJoanne
    @BateserJoanne Před 8 měsíci +243

    Don't fret, the debt ceiling always goes up. I wonder if 2008 crisis survivors had it easier. I'm concerned about the stock market, I've lost $35,000 this month, and my income is down. Worried I won't save enough for retirement as I can't add to my savings.

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      @Jason9o669 Před 8 měsíci +3

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      @ClementRusso2 Před 8 měsíci +2

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      @VickyAlvy Před 8 měsíci +2

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      @Rodxmirixm Před 8 měsíci +1

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  • @nebulouswillie3167
    @nebulouswillie3167 Před 3 lety +803

    You should do a video on modern monetary theory

    • @wiwersewindemer4437
      @wiwersewindemer4437 Před 3 lety +19

      I second this

    • @FireRupee
      @FireRupee Před 3 lety +11

      Third.

    • @sebastianflynn1746
      @sebastianflynn1746 Před 3 lety +29

      There are better channels for this.

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      @chrisrosenkreuz23 Před 3 lety +17

      there already is one, search "how to have your cake and eat it"

    • @robertfletcher11
      @robertfletcher11 Před 3 lety +26

      @John Ashtone Actually MMT is reality now. The whole government debt thing is just governments pretending that they are not already practicing MMT because a lot of voters don't understand economics. A similar thing happened with the gold standard. Countries like the US pretended to use the gold standard even though they knew there was not enough gold to cover the money they issued.
      MMT in action;
      www.statista.com/topics/6441/quantitative-easing-in-the-us/

  • @bummers
    @bummers Před 3 lety +169

    Curious that US is scarcely mentioned in the whole video at all when it has the 2nd largest external debt at 8.766 trillion USD and frequently prints more USD to fund their deficit.

    • @lukajovanovski1178
      @lukajovanovski1178 Před 3 lety +31

      Well the country is worth 11 trillion in gdp so it doesnt even come for 100% comparing it with its overall gdp, all these countries japan 236% greece 180% have way more that way

    • @GamingFreaKorea
      @GamingFreaKorea Před 3 lety +14

      bruh it's 28 trillion now lmao

    • @randomriku6774
      @randomriku6774 Před 3 lety +7

      @@GamingFreaKorea its not external

    • @bonanza06
      @bonanza06 Před 3 lety +6

      @@lukajovanovski1178 - what are you talking about? The US National Debt is $28.505 trillion; the US Total Debt is $85.186 trillion; the US Unfunded Liabilities are $150.861 trillion; Total Debt + Unfunded Liabilities are $236.047 trillion.
      usdebtclock.org/
      usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html

    • @arthurdalton1397
      @arthurdalton1397 Před 2 lety +10

      @@GamingFreaKorea yes and the US doesn't worth 11 trillion dollars anymore. National debt in relation to GDP is 127.11% so technically the US is in bankruptcy

  • @mahmoudaboualfa5136
    @mahmoudaboualfa5136 Před 3 lety +65

    Lebanon officials be like:
    "yea national Bank we need another 5 billion for ourself..... I mean to provide electricity and keep the country's natural resources clean"

    • @JJs_playground
      @JJs_playground Před 3 lety +3

      And don't forget for garbage pickup.

    • @mahmoudaboualfa5136
      @mahmoudaboualfa5136 Před 3 lety

      @@JJs_playground yea how did I forget

    • @adude8424
      @adude8424 Před 3 lety +1

      I wonder how's life there....Everyday I feel grateful because I know someone out there ia living a harder life than me

    • @mahmoudaboualfa5136
      @mahmoudaboualfa5136 Před 3 lety +4

      @@adude8424 No, life's not hard as you might think it is. It's only hard on politicial level and how the government controls the economy wnd agriculture. Other than that, life's good الحمد لله.

    • @mahnas92
      @mahnas92 Před 3 lety +5

      @@mahmoudaboualfa5136 bro, don't downplay it like that.Life is not good in Lebanon. Ever since the economic crisis 1-2 years ago, and it was brought to the pubic the political elite has depleted their foregin currency reserves - basically stealing and theifing it to themselves and their family owned companies, the banks banned everyone to withdraw any money, basically FREEZING all assets.
      And instread of solving this political issue, they keep stalling it, leading to "hair-cutting" ALL the lebaneses balances, by devaluating their own currency (1.5k LL was ~1USD, now the offical rate is 10k LL, and on the black market that value goes even worse to 1 USD ~ 12-15k). This means the lebanese people are slowly paying for what the politicians stole by having the bank sitting on money they cant withdraw, pay with or exchange to other currency, untill the value of the Lebanese Pound is worth nothing.
      TLDR; the Lebanese have super high level of unemployment and heavily increased poverty, with prices on basic staple food increase 2-10 times the price, while sallary remaining the same, if you were lucky enought to keep your job after/during (the still ongoing) economical crisis, and people that saved money in the lebanese currencey for a lifetime, maybe thinking they had something worth a house, well now is it could only buy you a car, if only you could access that money!
      You need to depose and execute ALL your leaders high treason man!
      كلن يعني كلن

  • @WanderTheNomad
    @WanderTheNomad Před 3 lety +47

    5:48
    On-screen text: $81.3T
    Spoken Words: $18.1T

    • @GKCanton
      @GKCanton Před 3 lety +1

      Dyslexia or dyscalculia? Who can tell?

  • @Mecrom
    @Mecrom Před 3 lety +19

    Soooo, your saying we can just eliminate the entire national debt by simply... not paying it? 🤔🤔🤔

  • @GreenGocco
    @GreenGocco Před 3 lety +293

    We need some saxophone in the intro

  • @robot4jarvis836
    @robot4jarvis836 Před rokem +14

    Ironically, even though Japan is (by far) the most indebted country in the world, it pays 0% interest in most of its debt.
    In fact, the 3 year Japanese bond has negative interest!
    If you lend 1000¥ to Japan today, you will receive 999¥ in 2026.
    Also, the Japanese Central Bank owns most of Japanese debt (so basically the government of Japans ows itself all that money).
    As always, everything is more complicated than what it seems.

    • @marcuskissinger3842
      @marcuskissinger3842 Před 10 měsíci

      why would anybody buy bonds there… unless deflation rate is higher than bond rate of return?

  • @ASLUHLUHCE
    @ASLUHLUHCE Před 3 lety +185

    4:05 There's quite a contradiction here
    "When we combine *all those types* of debt, which countries are in the most trouble? As of 2020, the clear leader is Japan, with a *national debt* standing at 234%..."
    Those figures are only of the national (i.e. government) debt

    • @gabrielsiteny
      @gabrielsiteny Před 3 lety +5

      You sure? I thought, national debt incompased all the other forms

    • @ASLUHLUHCE
      @ASLUHLUHCE Před 3 lety +32

      @@gabrielsiteny 'national debt' is only the government borrowing

    • @ASLUHLUHCE
      @ASLUHLUHCE Před 3 lety +3

      @Nikhil Prem and...?

    • @ASLUHLUHCE
      @ASLUHLUHCE Před 3 lety +6

      @Nikhil Prem Why are you talking about national/government debt? Household and corporate debt is completely different to that

    • @Septimus_ii
      @Septimus_ii Před 3 lety +4

      Yeah, he kept changing what he was counting through the video

  • @magentasound_
    @magentasound_ Před 3 lety +107

    it has been a long January, I feel you guys 😂

  • @makisxatzimixas2372
    @makisxatzimixas2372 Před 3 lety +9

    When taking a loan, you are basically sure that you will make money in the future and give it back to the bank. If everybody takes a loan, it simply means that they are borrowing that money from their future money.

  • @soumyadeepsarkar2545
    @soumyadeepsarkar2545 Před 3 lety +18

    We should work hard together, self reliant, appreciating our own value to be less dependable on ping pong money.

    • @cianmcguire5647
      @cianmcguire5647 Před 3 lety +4

      Or developed economies *cough* the EU and USA *cough* should lend more leniently to developing countries. If the US was willing to loan huge amounts of money to Europe after WW2 (and how amazingly that worked); why stop there?

  • @alexpotts6520
    @alexpotts6520 Před 3 lety +120

    0:34 "Who's lending the world money? Aliens?"
    ParanoidConpsiracyTheorist has entered the chat.

    • @puschelhornchen9484
      @puschelhornchen9484 Před 3 lety +2

      I guess they would turn to their antisemitic default first.

    • @alexpotts6520
      @alexpotts6520 Před 3 lety +5

      @@puschelhornchen9484 Okay, how about the conspiracy nutters settle on "aliens, financed by George Soros"?

    • @matthewv4170
      @matthewv4170 Před 3 lety +4

      @@puschelhornchen9484 found the jew

    • @svennielsen633
      @svennielsen633 Před 3 lety +2

      The correct answer is: no one. The "loans" that banks give, are none-existing money created out of thin air. It is a piece of paper (or a number in a mail) and nothing else. And the solution to the worlds debt problem is easy: states simply make a one-time tax on banks equal to the money, they "owe" them. That clears up the whole deal in five seconds.
      My advisory fee is 0,00001% of the total sum in question. To be paid at counter One.

    • @bishopthefool
      @bishopthefool Před 3 lety +1

      not saying it's Aliens but... ... ...

  • @ashmalik5808
    @ashmalik5808 Před 3 lety +46

    For me I think people need to spend less and invest more , you don’t expect to spend 90% , invest 10% and sit to make more wealth. My opinion tho 🤷🏾‍♂️

    • @zayne.7186
      @zayne.7186 Před 3 lety

      You're so correct, justneed to live well below your means.

    • @bongaatsu7704
      @bongaatsu7704 Před 3 lety

      Crypto has been more lucrative than stock market, I received my first profits last week Easter am regretting because I didn't start early...

    • @sherrycarl7698
      @sherrycarl7698 Před 3 lety

      I'll like to start bitcoin trading business, from what I see in the internet today. Seems like people are making a lot of money from bitcoin investing now...

    • @lucasbrian5185
      @lucasbrian5185 Před 3 lety

      Trading bitcoins has kept me going throughout this pandemic lockdown last year , I have made a huge amount of profit from it too.... Glad I took the decision at such critical times

    • @ahmedmunijr5377
      @ahmedmunijr5377 Před 3 lety

      I agree on y'all opinion generally I always look out for it to dump so I can purchase some more truly it has come to stay

  • @Saka_Mulia
    @Saka_Mulia Před 3 lety +41

    The best definition of money I heard was "an arbitrary measure of value. Like an inch is an arbitrary measure of length." It's only as useful as the amount of agreement and cooperation it elicits.

  • @c-class1106
    @c-class1106 Před 3 lety +8

    Man, that "That's what she said " joke was excellent!

  • @costin6563
    @costin6563 Před 3 lety

    You are so underrated, these animations are amazing!

  • @davidpowell6098
    @davidpowell6098 Před 3 lety +8

    All this Government money is ours, not theirs, they spend like a kid in a sweet shop because of that.

  • @likbezlik
    @likbezlik Před 3 lety +77

    Here's how it goes with our government:
    - A politician takes a loan promising better Infrastructure
    - He and his colleagues use about 1% of the total sum borrowed to improve infrastructure and half-ass the whole project
    - The politicians take 99% of money and put it in their pockets
    - The country is left in an even bigger debt than before without any real social progress.
    Rinse and repeat with a few big projects a year. Easy money -_-

    • @Austeja608
      @Austeja608 Před 3 lety +2

      You just told everything about lithuania

    • @morrox5206
      @morrox5206 Před 3 lety +25

      @@Austeja608 he just told everything about most countries in this world to be honest

    • @fernandoroberts3591
      @fernandoroberts3591 Před 3 lety +3

      @@morrox5206 for real

    • @alpearson9158
      @alpearson9158 Před 3 lety +1

      american I presume??

    • @likbezlik
      @likbezlik Před 3 lety

      @@alpearson9158 No, America is a dream land compared to us.

  • @asepheleleshabalala1352

    I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EXPLAINER FOREVER.

  • @craigthompson3943
    @craigthompson3943 Před 2 lety +15

    Something that perhaps was missed here is fluctuations in instruments such as gilt edged securities - despite bullish bond markets in 2007/2006 , there hasn't been a upturn in bond markets .e.g, in the UK it's better to for corporations to keep monies as cash reserves without purchasing government backed bonds (which perform with less against than CPIX or even RPI performance).
    This is a common feature found in developed and mature economies - e.g. Japan, the USA, the East Asian Tigers.

  • @AahanaGoyal
    @AahanaGoyal Před 3 lety +15

    Dude. THANKS. Seriously, that was so simplified and so well explained. I have an MUN to do on debt traps and stuff and my mind was going bonkers until I saw this. Thanks a lot!!

  • @reiteration6273
    @reiteration6273 Před 3 lety +103

    It's a pity most governments care more about enriching themselves than actually improving their countries. If politicians were less corrupt, I expect countries with sustainable debt levels would be a whole lot more common than they are right now.

    • @oldskoolmusicnostalgia
      @oldskoolmusicnostalgia Před 2 lety +20

      Politicians promise to increase pensions ==> The elderly vote massively for that ==> That leads to borrowing since there are no funds to pay for that.
      The story of "democracies" these days.

    • @lellyparker
      @lellyparker Před rokem +9

      People always vote for more candy and they don't think or care about where the candy comes from.

    • @MrFriendlyCsgoContent
      @MrFriendlyCsgoContent Před rokem +1

      Exactly Lelly! The voters would rather blame the politicians, than admit that they aren’t competent enough to vote for a leader!

    • @7thLeader
      @7thLeader Před rokem

      they will eventually when they think they're rich enough

    • @lellyparker
      @lellyparker Před rokem +1

      @@7thLeader Mega-rich people can never be rich enough. The poor dears have it worse than us. There is only a finite number of things in this world and the Mega-rich are competing with one another over who can afford them. So they constantly need to increase their earnings at a faster rate than their mega-rich rivals. You gotta feel sorry for them. Caribbean islands don't buy themselves.

  • @huzaifakhurram2024
    @huzaifakhurram2024 Před 3 lety +1

    This channel deserves much more subscribers

  • @comokazijeff
    @comokazijeff Před 3 lety

    Great video!! Thanks for the great info.

  • @ricf9592
    @ricf9592 Před 3 lety +10

    Forget having barely any money. Having zero debt will one day be the sign of success.

    • @philbuell6657
      @philbuell6657 Před 3 lety +1

      I have had zero debt for years, never buy with credit, if I can't pay in full, up front, l don't need it that bad. Haven't had a credit score since filing bankruptcy in 2006. I have no problem living within my means, never been materialistic, which is why people live beyond their means, in a competition with others, instead of the things that actually make them happy. And all that crap you aquire with credit or cash for that matter is never ever really yours because you're always paying a fee or tax to use/have it!

    • @kratosgodofwar8366
      @kratosgodofwar8366 Před 3 lety +1

      Well sometimes begger has 0 debt does that mean it's ideal no having debt and not able to pay debt is different debt can be use for right purpose is one kind of investment
      *Sry if there are any mistakes in grammar

  • @doctorspock1930
    @doctorspock1930 Před 3 lety +12

    Honestly, talking about public debt without ever mentioning public wealth is a non starter.
    Why even talk about sustainable amounts of debt if you ignore the public capital that's sustaining it. It's not very sensible.

  • @blossomjoseph5541
    @blossomjoseph5541 Před 3 lety +1

    For every debtor, there is a debtee

  • @aatsiii
    @aatsiii Před 3 lety

    Nice one. Just found this channel. You deserve more subs!

  • @therealest7179
    @therealest7179 Před 3 lety +10

    The decepticons and/or the iron bank is gonna need their money back

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 3 lety +1

      More like a gold/platinum bank!

  • @windrasshean
    @windrasshean Před 3 lety +23

    "Bring back the gold standard!"

    • @juanducas6967
      @juanducas6967 Před 3 lety

      👆This

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 3 lety +1

      or just use crypto!

    • @Ken-nv2hl
      @Ken-nv2hl Před 3 lety

      The gold standard was flawed too as it caused cyclical growth and recessions. Countries that swapped to fractional reserve banking could have continual growth so countries economy/technology will end up being decades in front of gold standard nations. A recession and depression is devastating to the economy as it is alot harder to create business and jobs than it is to lose them. If the countries swaps to bitcoin standard ( a limited asset) then they will experience the same problems as the gold standard.

    • @Buildbeautiful
      @Buildbeautiful Před 2 lety

      No unless you own a goldmine

  • @tusharaggarwal4707
    @tusharaggarwal4707 Před 3 lety

    Thanks, for providing such valuable information.🙏

  • @PETE4955
    @PETE4955 Před 3 lety +1

    The Panama Paper's give real insight into how money does not work for the majority of people on the planet and most countries.

  • @jh5401
    @jh5401 Před 3 lety +3

    It would be really interesting if you did a video on the concept of Doughnut Economics

  • @Puter4472
    @Puter4472 Před 3 lety +11

    Shouldn't it be '& to whom' not '& to who'?

    • @SwissSareth
      @SwissSareth Před 3 lety +4

      Technically, yes. Modern English often doesn't care, though.

    • @samuelmelcher333
      @samuelmelcher333 Před 3 lety +2

      On a certain level, I accept that language changes over time, but also: God damn it, there’s a way it’s meant to be, and you lot across the pod invented English; I want to be able to go to bed at night knowing at least you guys are still doing it properly over there

    • @Puter4472
      @Puter4472 Před 3 lety +2

      @@mihaicristian some of your examples do sound fine but the incorrect use of 'was' just sounds dreadful.

    • @Puter4472
      @Puter4472 Před 3 lety +2

      @@mihaicristian It's been corrected!!

  • @MultiSciGeek
    @MultiSciGeek Před 3 lety

    Thanks a lot for the sources!

  • @TheLifeOfChob
    @TheLifeOfChob Před 3 lety

    You should include more spiraling segments to the videos 😂 that cut near the end was good

  • @chrisrosenkreuz23
    @chrisrosenkreuz23 Před 3 lety +18

    Kind of sad when a video on whom is owed does not answer the question why they are owed it, specifically how that currency is created (from thin air)
    We live in a topsy-turvy world where the so-called creditor is actually the one providing the liability instead of the actual asset.

    • @The_Christ_Angel
      @The_Christ_Angel Před 3 lety +2

      Why it’s owe is to help other countries build buildings so Other countries can borrow money also to blow it up.

    • @htf5555
      @htf5555 Před 2 lety +2

      lol as if anyone will actually tell you any of that

    • @chrisrosenkreuz23
      @chrisrosenkreuz23 Před 2 lety +1

      @@htf5555 yes I guess it would defeat the purpose haha

  • @williamrbuchanan4153
    @williamrbuchanan4153 Před 3 lety +9

    Eventually it has happened! All money is IOUs , it’s still useable, always has been , just a promise. ,!
    Money isn’t worth anything , that is to say , we all work for nothing. All our life for a constantly moving value of a promise, usually devaluing it constantly. Some have the Gold or and variable, nominally rated high value in $S. So we , most of us have nothing but day to day sustainable wealth, not to keep for long, we eat, and borrow to get a few extras essential to keep the wheels going round. The over wealthy, rule us, so , we are slaves to the wealthy. Politics is just to please us thinking we have a say. Politicians, in the business of managing for the wealthy.

  • @caseyeffinger8154
    @caseyeffinger8154 Před 3 lety

    I really like this kind of content! Thanks

  • @MM-np4md
    @MM-np4md Před 3 lety +1

    Now this is a great video, I learnt something!

  • @fefifofob
    @fefifofob Před 3 lety +9

    I miss the days when politicians argued that deficits didn't matter as long as it was less than the inflation rate.

  • @killy1
    @killy1 Před 3 lety +22

    The more I hear about how the monetary system works the more I think we need to find another way!

    • @bidoro_12
      @bidoro_12 Před 3 lety +6

      The more I think of my tax responsibility, the more I wish money was never invented lol

    • @pikameme3322
      @pikameme3322 Před 3 lety +1

      Bitcoin?

  • @osamamalik5770
    @osamamalik5770 Před 3 lety

    Such an amazing video. God bless you!

  • @michaelmayhem350
    @michaelmayhem350 Před 3 lety +2

    Borrowing more money also increases inflation and decreases the value of money, just a slower rate than outright printing it.

  • @djayjp
    @djayjp Před rokem +7

    It would be interesting to see how much nations owed if everyone paid everyone. For example Japan has huge debt but they're also a huge holder of foreign debt.

    • @MrCubFan415
      @MrCubFan415 Před rokem +1

      Or if nations that owed money to each other decided to forgive the mutual debt (for instance, if Country A owed Country B $100B and B owed A $200B, they’d each forgive $100B of the other’s debt toward them, leaving B owing A $100B)

    • @djayjp
      @djayjp Před rokem +2

      @@MrCubFan415 It would be interesting to see the numbers for sure but don't think that would ever happen in reality as the maturities and yields would differ.

    • @nickdsp8089
      @nickdsp8089 Před rokem

      The global debt is counted wrong. It should be how much a country owes minus the total of other countries owe to it. Then sum the total of all countries. As it is now, if I lend to person A 20$ for 3 years and he lends me back 20$ for 4 years. Then the total debt is 40$.

  • @kkillerz6991
    @kkillerz6991 Před 3 lety +8

    Greece awkwardly sits in corner

  • @Jordan-bg7xc
    @Jordan-bg7xc Před 3 lety +1

    The paradox that is debt if people can't pay back a loan charge them more money that will work

  • @dahasolomon7314
    @dahasolomon7314 Před rokem +2

    Individuals can never buy government bonds. The closest would be private banks.

  • @jimmysimms2399
    @jimmysimms2399 Před 3 lety +13

    That’s a question I’ve always asked myself; who owns the $270,000,000,000,000 that every government in the world borrows from and in which bank do they keep it?

    • @Marcusjnmc
      @Marcusjnmc Před 2 lety +4

      a lot of governments borrow from their own national banks , japan especially does this a lot

    • @billh.1940
      @billh.1940 Před 2 lety

      The Swiss! All money leads to the Alps! China is just trying to muscle in.

    • @absolutium
      @absolutium Před rokem +1

      And by national banks it means a private corporation with faceless ownership due to the concept of circular property.

  • @kavinanil7406
    @kavinanil7406 Před 3 lety +43

    The debt is owed to our environment, forests, endangered wildlife and to earth by and large...

    • @lazergurka-smerlin6561
      @lazergurka-smerlin6561 Před 3 lety +9

      I mean I suppose in a metaphorical way but... thats not what this video is about

    • @kavinanil7406
      @kavinanil7406 Před 3 lety +3

      @@lazergurka-smerlin6561 As a global debt no matter what aspect of reasoning, humans owe it nature and earth in the whole. Economy is just a bubble that humans have created to place themselves one above the other.

    • @vondussard
      @vondussard Před 3 lety +14

      Lol hippie moment

    • @borasalkaya3850
      @borasalkaya3850 Před 3 lety +4

      cringe af

    • @titanbread.2752
      @titanbread.2752 Před 3 lety +2

      **dies from cringe**

  • @sanjayk3094
    @sanjayk3094 Před 3 lety

    A guy explained this to me in a bus when I was in middle. And suddenly now I got this is in my recommendation reminding me of that.

  • @notarmchairhistorian7779
    @notarmchairhistorian7779 Před 3 lety +1

    Short answer probably is its the "money that countries lend which they do not have to other countries"

  • @maxbrouwer95
    @maxbrouwer95 Před 3 lety +60

    You guys are doing a great job! However, claiming zero censorship is a bit of a stretch. Allowing your public to choose your topics increases the bias of the topics and in extreme cases will nudge you away from certain topics that are not profitable.
    Keep up the good work though!

    • @LexlutherVII
      @LexlutherVII Před 3 lety +2

      Yes

    • @UnholyWrath3277
      @UnholyWrath3277 Před 2 lety +9

      That's not censorship tho that's just basic economics. They will do what is profitable by choice. Censorship is when the choice is made for them

  • @kanderson5555
    @kanderson5555 Před 3 lety +3

    6:12 Various but there is an elephant in the room you missed- Credit ratings agencies like Moody's, S&P, and Fitch decide investment risk and their work is often taken as gospel by private investors (despite questions over their role in the 08-09 GFC and Euro debt crisis). Developing nations aren't favoured by credit ratings agencies so they pretty much have to look to foreign sovereign states and supranationals for investment like the World bank or China. There are even questions as to whether credit ratings agencies and even people like Bono have hurt developing nations by perpetuating the idea that they're an unfriendly environment for investment and trade despite GDP of emerging and developing nations combined growing double the rate of developed and advanced economies for the last 10 years.

  • @santy-kf6ys
    @santy-kf6ys Před 3 lety

    I've been waiting a long time see one such video

  • @PeymanSayyadi
    @PeymanSayyadi Před 3 lety

    Excellent video. Thanks.

  • @kumbaya69421
    @kumbaya69421 Před 3 lety +8

    maybe you can talk about the chinese debt lending in detail.. or you already have a video for it??

  • @thethinker739
    @thethinker739 Před 3 lety +45

    The aliens be like :i want my money back

    • @eksortso
      @eksortso Před 3 lety +2

      It's a very old debt going back centuries. The original paperwork was carved in stone and goes on at length about zorg/gronk exchange rates.

    • @eksortso
      @eksortso Před 3 lety +1

      @@Mr_101 yeah, probably. I hope whoever we owed it to died since then, but y'know, space aliens and their advanced technologies.

  • @javierfernandezlorente751

    Great video!!! Thanks

  • @tribopower
    @tribopower Před 3 lety +1

    If everyone is in debt... then no one is in debt

  • @davelowe1977
    @davelowe1977 Před rokem +3

    The value is owed to the citizens. When the governments -borrow- print more currency, this instantly devalues everything you own. Inflation isn't prices rising, it's the purchasing power of the currency falling. If all the currency printed since 1973 were destroyed, prices would quickly drop to where they were that year.

  • @Pyron27
    @Pyron27 Před 3 lety +11

    "Who the f#@&k do we owe this much money, the Decepticons?" - some random comment from a similar debt video.

  • @nuclearthrone2497
    @nuclearthrone2497 Před rokem

    Great explanation, thanks!

  • @Guds777
    @Guds777 Před rokem +1

    Debt is what creates money. What one has loaned someone else isn't necessarily debt that has to be paid back, but rather as an investment...

  • @Waterfront975
    @Waterfront975 Před 3 lety +3

    I am no expert on this but it may be worth pointing out that the cost of borrowing money is different in different countries and specifically it depends on how the country borrows money. If Japan issues government bonds, which they do, at a 10 year yields of 0.1 %, even if they have borrowed much money, their interest rate cost is not so high relatively speaking to the dept. They still of course have to pay back, but when that day comes, they can still issue new bonds to pay them. In fact the 5 year yield on japanese bonds is -0.09 %, which seems to indicate that the Japanese government for those bonds get more money than they have to pay back in 5 years. It is of course different for countries like Argentina which have much higher interest rate, they would struggle more to pay back cause they have a high interest rate on their bonds.

  • @floralola398
    @floralola398 Před 29 dny +59

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    • @NurasuyudiRabiu
      @NurasuyudiRabiu Před 29 dny +4

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    • @TERRALESA
      @TERRALESA Před 29 dny +4

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    • @AndrewMedina-jr7ko
      @AndrewMedina-jr7ko Před 29 dny +1

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    • @antoniopastena382
      @antoniopastena382 Před 29 dny

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      @AndrewAlonso-jb7kz Před 29 dny

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  • @blacklightfamilycircle4425

    “… sorry I’m spiraling 🌀 again 👽 “… 🤦🏾🤦🏾😂😂😂😂😂😂… I absolutely loved it

  • @coubyplayz
    @coubyplayz Před 3 lety +1

    Nice channel 👍📈

  • @BotConnorrr
    @BotConnorrr Před 3 lety +5

    It's educational and they make it fun
    I like how they show you how it works
    I like how they visualise everything

  • @darkyada71
    @darkyada71 Před 3 lety +4

    You have missed a very important concept: the State needs to roll over its debt. Whatever the level of dent-to-GDP is, if it cannot roll over its debt, it can end up making a default.

    • @vikmanphotography7984
      @vikmanphotography7984 Před 3 lety +3

      The risk of failing to roll over such debt is pretty low though. Countries want to sustain growth and therefore will borrow at just about whatever interest they can. Debt buyers generally reinvest they're interest and are glad for the predictable nature of bonds so they keep sustaining the system.
      Edit- it definitely does extend the tend of concentrating wealth though which is worrisome for different reasons

    • @darkyada71
      @darkyada71 Před 3 lety +1

      @@vikmanphotography7984 exactly
      And this is why a default is rarely happening. If you can roll over your debt up to infinite,there is no reason you shouldn't be able to pay interests, regardless of your level of debt. That's why Japan is far from a default despite its enormous level of debt

  • @KizombaFusion
    @KizombaFusion Před 3 lety +1

    The question you asked before the end, you should do a video on it :D

  • @aaronknittel8327
    @aaronknittel8327 Před 3 lety

    great video :) thanks

  • @Ironborn4
    @Ironborn4 Před 3 lety +9

    This is a really bad video. First off, Japan's debt is mostly held by Japanese citizens and banks. So the assertion that Japan is in trouble because it owes too much is simply not true.
    Second off, the United States is the largest debtor to China. This is because they import a massive amount from them. This shows the interdependent nature of debt. If the USA defaults, China is holding a lot of bad debt that it can't do anything with.
    You are also ignoring the geopolitical aspects of sovereign debt. If the USA decides to not pay, there is absolutely no one that can make them on account of them having the biggest army.

    • @crosstraffic187
      @crosstraffic187 Před 3 lety +1

      US debt is denominated in US$. Since they issue their own currency, they can always pay back their debts.

    • @beastmr919
      @beastmr919 Před 2 lety

      Dept does not have to do with imports i know that for sure so what are you talking about 😂😂

  • @theafricanillustrator979
    @theafricanillustrator979 Před 3 lety +4

    What if the lender ( china ) increases interest rates after their debtor declares sovereign default the first time, then the debtor borrows again under the now increased interest ratr borrowing terms and declares sovereign default a second time?

    • @tarquinioprisco8459
      @tarquinioprisco8459 Před 2 lety

      well, people in general are not going to be inclined to buy bonds even if they cost 1 hundreth of their returne value
      so, you are getting less money every time because people are buying less bonds giving you less money each time
      in the end, you cannot borrow any more money and the first natural disaster will put you onto your knees

    • @tarquinioprisco8459
      @tarquinioprisco8459 Před 2 lety

      to be more precise, it's not china who raises the interest, it's the defaulting state that does because if they don't nobody is going to buy their bonds
      they are literally making their own bonds cheaper so to sell them

  • @balkanmadnessmadeinaustria5837

    Lets play a game, every time he says dept, one shot. Good luck

  • @hahahasan
    @hahahasan Před 3 lety

    quality content as usual

  • @elvoandro7087
    @elvoandro7087 Před 3 lety +3

    I do not own a cent to any person or bank and I have the feeling I'm missing out to live a normal life.

    • @sandponics
      @sandponics Před 3 lety

      The bank owes me, fortunately, it's not very much, otherwise, I would be worried.

    • @bassam_salim
      @bassam_salim Před 3 lety

      @Hakim Habib yes, it is a dairty thing that you should throw, I will help you doing that, just buy gift cards with all your money and send me the codes
      I will dispose it the correct way

  • @Hibashira007
    @Hibashira007 Před 3 lety +20

    A more sinister act is for the creditors to demand allegiance from the debtor or else. While this is hard to pull off if the creditors are individuals or companies but with governments as creditors... like China. Guess where their WHO and UN supporters are?

    • @beburs
      @beburs Před 3 lety +2

      the west have always used this tactic in the UN through loans and western companies and sanctions etc,why are you singling out china?

    • @jeffthevomitguy1178
      @jeffthevomitguy1178 Před 3 lety

      @@beburs China bad. China red on map.

    • @williamdickerson8898
      @williamdickerson8898 Před 3 lety

      Seems to me china are beating the west at their own game.

    • @alpearson9158
      @alpearson9158 Před 3 lety

      @@williamdickerson8898 trying

  • @Razorcarl
    @Razorcarl Před 3 lety

    you are amazing my guy

  • @alaiaaa2228
    @alaiaaa2228 Před 2 lety +1

    Bank of Milky Way: Excuse me Earth, you're credit card is getting declined.

  • @mhmdnazel1
    @mhmdnazel1 Před 3 lety +7

    Take a predefined portion of the profits instead of interest. That will be more helpful to the debtor. Interest just makes the borrower more poorer in the long run and in turn oppress the people and increase poverty.

  • @swapnilmarathe5590
    @swapnilmarathe5590 Před 3 lety +6

    if we cancel out all debts we are giving each other will it be equal to 0 ??
    If not, then who is actually paying for it ???
    Is it the earths resources ??

    • @Temo990
      @Temo990 Před 3 lety

      He pretty much answered that; some countries have more debt and some lend more money to others.
      So it would not cancel out to 0.

  • @sukharevasyndrome
    @sukharevasyndrome Před 2 lety +1

    "Money does not have value." Yes it does, just that money is a social construct.

  • @halamish1
    @halamish1 Před 2 lety

    Very good explanation

  • @ryanmaris1917
    @ryanmaris1917 Před 3 lety +12

    Ever since countries left the gold standard money is just simply worth what we believe it is. Just like how 1 yard or 1 meter is measured it's something we humans collectively agreed upon to make our lives easier. Unlike a measurement of distance however, money is A LOT more complicated and it's worth and value depending on the kind is always changing.

    • @aaronclark4957
      @aaronclark4957 Před 2 lety +4

      Distance is all locked by set standards. The universal constants length is based on is effectively like a gold standard for science. Your point is still valid, just thought I would chip in.

    • @Jay_in_Japan
      @Jay_in_Japan Před rokem

      @@aaronclark4957 standards, which are based on an arbitrary multiple of the universal constant

  • @mikebikekite1
    @mikebikekite1 Před 3 lety +5

    Thanks, that helped me understand things. Out of interest, if countries like the USA and Japan go to war with China (over say the China Sea), is their debt to China ignored from then on?.

    • @weesee9694
      @weesee9694 Před 3 lety +1

      Wrong..if china lose..china need to pay for US and Nato expenses plus reparation like how german need paid to us and till now israel..hoho

    • @mikebikekite1
      @mikebikekite1 Před 3 lety +2

      @@weesee9694 I don't think you'd get NATO attacking China, no matter what they did, as China can simply veto the motion because they're a permanent member. The policy of crippling a country for loosing a war didn't work well when done to Germany after WW1 and just led to WW2. That also assumes we'd win the war against them.

    • @kanefreegate7344
      @kanefreegate7344 Před 3 lety +5

      @@mikebikekite1 youre confusing nato with the UN

    • @seokjinshairstrand5144
      @seokjinshairstrand5144 Před rokem

      @@weesee9694 that explains why US gets uncomfortable when two rival countries get closer and why USA keeps triggering China
      Poke them, make them mad to cause them to slip off and there you have it...pretty clever in my opinion

  • @r1234233
    @r1234233 Před 3 lety +2

    "who owes it to whom?" well that's the point now isn't? the debt isn't real because all the money is now worthless

  • @tophercIaus
    @tophercIaus Před 3 lety +2

    The major thing I learned here was that Cape Verde is a country. I had to look out up.
    It's off the west coast of Africa, btw.