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The Telegraph, U.K.
Dívidas dos países está em ponto de ebulição, adverte o B.I.S.
Dívida soberana já está começando a cruzar o limiar de perigo nos Estados Unidos, Japão, Grã-Bretanha, e na maioria da Europa Ocidental, ameaçando desencadear uma crise financeira no coração da economia global.
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Sovereign debt crisis at 'boiling point', warns Bank for International Settlements
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor - Published: 6:31AM BST 08 Apr 2010
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The Bank for International Settlements does not mince words. Sovereign debt is already starting to cross the danger threshold in the United States, Japan, Britain, and most of Western Europe, threatening to set off a bond crisis at the heart of the global economy.
 
"The aftermath of the financial crisis is poised to bring a simmering fiscal problem in industrial economies to the boiling point", said the Swiss-based bank for central bankers -- the oldest and most venerable of the world's financial watchdogs. Drastic austerity measures will be needed to head off a compound interest spiral, if it is not already too late for some.
 
Official debt figures in the West are "very misleading" since they fail to take in account the contingent liabilities and pension debts that have mushroomed over recent years. "Rapidly ageing populations present a number of countries with the prospect of enormous future costs that are not wholly recognised in current budget projections. The size of these future obligations is anybody's guess," said the report. The BIS lamented the lack of any systematic data on the scale of unfunded IOUs that care-free politicians have handed out like confetti.