http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-10/debt-exceeds-100-trillion-as-governments-binge.html
"The amount of debt globally has soared more than 40
percent to $100 trillion since the first signs of the
financial crisis as governments borrowed to pull their
economies out of recession and companies took advantage
of record low interest rates."
[...]
My position is that soverign debt is equivalent to unpaid taxes.
/jordan