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

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  • Опубліковано 7 лис 2024
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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 3 роки тому +2493

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

  • @garth2356
    @garth2356 3 роки тому +1468

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

    • @birchtree5884
      @birchtree5884 3 роки тому +66

      TLDR Conspiracies

    • @adeimantus4224
      @adeimantus4224 3 роки тому +10

      The conclusion is money is the same as the ceilings, the truth is there is no ceilings...

    • @lerpalerpa581
      @lerpalerpa581 3 роки тому +20

      Kind of like a bdsm version of asmr

    • @Dr.Kraig_Ren
      @Dr.Kraig_Ren 3 роки тому +7

      @@lerpalerpa581
      Lmao. You killed me brother.

    • @lintangprabowo8844
      @lintangprabowo8844 3 роки тому +2

      Just watch vsauce lol

  • @mandategaming
    @mandategaming 3 роки тому +2892

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

    • @darkyada71
      @darkyada71 3 роки тому +97

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

    • @mandategaming
      @mandategaming 3 роки тому +95

      Yes

    • @abhigyanbg5764
      @abhigyanbg5764 3 роки тому +15

      Are you Claire from Fleabag?

    • @mandategaming
      @mandategaming 3 роки тому +2

      @@abhigyanbg5764 no

    • @giv-0234
      @giv-0234 3 роки тому +16

      i have 86 trillion$ i am richest man in universe

  • @MakeamericaGreatagain-h7j
    @MakeamericaGreatagain-h7j Рік тому +303

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      @DreamweaverShade-h9p Рік тому +2

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      @Aziz__0 Рік тому +1

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      @Tsunaniis-j5l Рік тому +4

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  • @RobloxAciko
    @RobloxAciko 3 роки тому +74

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

  • @tristancarr2112
    @tristancarr2112 3 роки тому +648

    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 3 роки тому +73

      I think they got the rice part covered

    • @wycanygmailcom521
      @wycanygmailcom521 3 роки тому +8

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @mirzaahmed6589
      @mirzaahmed6589 3 роки тому +47

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

    • @JJs_playground
      @JJs_playground 3 роки тому +9

      Lmfao, underrated comment

    • @JJs_playground
      @JJs_playground 3 роки тому +11

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

  • @nqh4393
    @nqh4393 3 роки тому +94

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

  • @michaeljf6472
    @michaeljf6472 3 роки тому +478

    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

    • @hannahg8439
      @hannahg8439 3 роки тому +10

      Nice one😂

    • @countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926
      @countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926 3 роки тому +19

      F O O R T H E R E P U B L I C
      *gatling gun blasting*

    • @RaharijaoDavid
      @RaharijaoDavid 3 роки тому +56

      That type of stuff is actually pretty interesting, and fleshes out the star wars universe. Too bad some people regard it as boring and "non star wars"

    • @countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926
      @countbinfaceglobalpresiden7926 3 роки тому +21

      @@RaharijaoDavid those type of people aren't true star wars fans.

    • @royalecrafts6252
      @royalecrafts6252 3 роки тому +8

      I AM THE SENATE sorry I had to say it

  • @H0SKING
    @H0SKING 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +4

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

    • @Haijwsyz51846
      @Haijwsyz51846 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +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.

  • @chrish1857
    @chrish1857 3 роки тому +48

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

  • @bummers
    @bummers 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +30

      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 3 роки тому +13

      bruh it's 28 trillion now lmao

    • @randomriku6774
      @randomriku6774 3 роки тому +6

      @@GamingFreaKorea its not external

    • @bonanza06
      @bonanza06 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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

  • @ASLUHLUHC3
    @ASLUHLUHC3 3 роки тому +184

    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 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @ASLUHLUHC3
      @ASLUHLUHC3 3 роки тому +32

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

    • @ASLUHLUHC3
      @ASLUHLUHC3 3 роки тому +3

      @Nikhil Prem and...?

    • @ASLUHLUHC3
      @ASLUHLUHC3 3 роки тому +6

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

    • @Septimus_ii
      @Septimus_ii 3 роки тому +4

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

  • @nebulouswillie3167
    @nebulouswillie3167 3 роки тому +802

    You should do a video on modern monetary theory

    • @wiwersewindemer4437
      @wiwersewindemer4437 3 роки тому +19

      I second this

    • @FireRupee
      @FireRupee 3 роки тому +11

      Third.

    • @sebastianflynn1746
      @sebastianflynn1746 3 роки тому +29

      There are better channels for this.

    • @chrisrosenkreuz23
      @chrisrosenkreuz23 3 роки тому +17

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

    • @robertfletcher11
      @robertfletcher11 3 роки тому +25

      @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/

  • @mandingo9928
    @mandingo9928 3 роки тому +95

    "who tf do we owe? the decepticons?"

    • @samhudson8836
      @samhudson8836 3 роки тому +2

      The Aliens

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 3 роки тому +2

      The #Ferengi

    • @jamesbuckley7299
      @jamesbuckley7299 3 роки тому

      tell me you didn't watch the video, without telling me you didn't watch the video

    • @dead.dummy678
      @dead.dummy678 3 роки тому

      Yea, Megatron being the largest creditor

    • @hermit1620
      @hermit1620 3 роки тому +1

      Satan.

  • @WanderTheNomad
    @WanderTheNomad 3 роки тому +49

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

    • @GKCanton
      @GKCanton 3 роки тому +1

      Dyslexia or dyscalculia? Who can tell?

  • @mahmoudaboualfa5136
    @mahmoudaboualfa5136 3 роки тому +66

    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 3 роки тому +3

      And don't forget for garbage pickup.

    • @mahmoudaboualfa5136
      @mahmoudaboualfa5136 3 роки тому

      @@JJs_playground yea how did I forget

    • @adude8424
      @adude8424 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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

  • @robot4jarvis836
    @robot4jarvis836 Рік тому +15

    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 Рік тому

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

  • @BateserJoanne
    @BateserJoanne Рік тому +242

    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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      @JonasBluntson 10 місяців тому

      Just work an take vacation as often. Less stressful

  • @Saka_Mulia
    @Saka_Mulia 3 роки тому +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.

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    @floralola398 5 місяців тому +56

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    @ashmalik5808 3 роки тому +46

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      @zayne.7186 3 роки тому

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      @ahmedmunijr5377 3 роки тому

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  • @alexpotts6520
    @alexpotts6520 3 роки тому +120

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

    • @puschelhornchen9484
      @puschelhornchen9484 3 роки тому +2

      I guess they would turn to their antisemitic default first.

    • @alexpotts6520
      @alexpotts6520 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @matthewv4170
      @matthewv4170 3 роки тому +4

      @@puschelhornchen9484 found the jew

    • @svennielsen633
      @svennielsen633 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @GreenGocco
    @GreenGocco 3 роки тому +290

    We need some saxophone in the intro

  • @likbezlik
    @likbezlik 3 роки тому +78

    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 3 роки тому +2

      You just told everything about lithuania

    • @morrox5206
      @morrox5206 3 роки тому +25

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

    • @fernandoroberts3591
      @fernandoroberts3591 3 роки тому +3

      @@morrox5206 for real

    • @alpearson9158
      @alpearson9158 3 роки тому +1

      american I presume??

    • @likbezlik
      @likbezlik 3 роки тому

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

  • @Mecrom
    @Mecrom 3 роки тому +20

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

  • @AahanaGoyal
    @AahanaGoyal 3 роки тому +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!!

  • @makisxatzimixas2372
    @makisxatzimixas2372 3 роки тому +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.

  • @reiteration6273
    @reiteration6273 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 Рік тому +9

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

    • @MrFriendlyCsgoContent
      @MrFriendlyCsgoContent Рік тому +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 Рік тому

      they will eventually when they think they're rich enough

    • @lellyparker
      @lellyparker Рік тому +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.

  • @magentasound_
    @magentasound_ 3 роки тому +107

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

  • @craigthompson3943
    @craigthompson3943 3 роки тому +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.

  • @soumyadeepsarkar2545
    @soumyadeepsarkar2545 3 роки тому +18

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

    • @cianmcguire5647
      @cianmcguire5647 3 роки тому +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?

  • @dahasolomon7314
    @dahasolomon7314 Рік тому +2

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

  • @maxbrouwer95
    @maxbrouwer95 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +2

      Yes

    • @UnholyWrath3277
      @UnholyWrath3277 2 роки тому +10

      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

  • @doctorspock1930
    @doctorspock1930 3 роки тому +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.

  • @SwissSareth
    @SwissSareth 3 роки тому +17

    China is not only the world's biggest creditor, it's also the most malicious one, happily lending developing countries money they expect can't pay back and then taking over the built infrastructure when they really can't. That's what happened to Sri Lanka 2017, for example, when it was forced to hand over a port to China - basically creating a new Chinese naval base on Sri Lanka territory.
    Officially, the Hambantota port is on a 99 year lease, but if the CCP is still around by then, good luck getting it back.

    • @dasgupta9288
      @dasgupta9288 3 роки тому

      Many countries wish your country can help, but

    • @SwissSareth
      @SwissSareth 3 роки тому

      @@dasgupta9288 yeah, good luck trying to get our politicians to do anything. -.-

    • @dasgupta9288
      @dasgupta9288 3 роки тому +1

      @@SwissSareth if your politicians are easy to be bribed at the cost of your country, then the problem really lies in your own country, not in other countries

    • @SwissSareth
      @SwissSareth 3 роки тому

      @@dasgupta9288 it's not that. It's the "ah well, it's just Asia, that stuff is half a world away, why should we care" kind of attitude that's the problem.

  • @kavinanil7406
    @kavinanil7406 3 роки тому +44

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

    • @lazergurka-smerlin6561
      @lazergurka-smerlin6561 3 роки тому +9

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

    • @kavinanil7406
      @kavinanil7406 3 роки тому +4

      @@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 3 роки тому +14

      Lol hippie moment

    • @borasalkaya3850
      @borasalkaya3850 3 роки тому +4

      cringe af

    • @titanbread.2752
      @titanbread.2752 3 роки тому +2

      **dies from cringe**

  • @c-class1106
    @c-class1106 3 роки тому +8

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

  • @Guds777
    @Guds777 Рік тому +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...

  • @chrisrosenkreuz23
    @chrisrosenkreuz23 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +2

      lol as if anyone will actually tell you any of that

    • @chrisrosenkreuz23
      @chrisrosenkreuz23 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @huzaifakhurram2024
    @huzaifakhurram2024 3 роки тому +1

    This channel deserves much more subscribers

  • @thethinker739
    @thethinker739 3 роки тому +45

    The aliens be like :i want my money back

    • @eksortso
      @eksortso 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @michaelmayhem350
    @michaelmayhem350 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @kanderson5555
    @kanderson5555 3 роки тому +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.

  • @theon9575
    @theon9575 Рік тому

    👍🏻 Great! Thanks.
    I was beginning to think that no-one would ever ask.

  • @davelowe1977
    @davelowe1977 Рік тому +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.

  • @tahu1349
    @tahu1349 3 роки тому +1

    1. Money (paper) has no real value except what you ascribe to it 2. There is nothing stopping a government printing its own money rather than borrowing it from other countries (provided it doesn't need goods or services from it) 3. Taxation is a way of destroying printed money to limit bubbles or inflation. Interest rates are another way on a macro level....5. The paper money in your wallet is actually worthless , and you are enslaving yourselves to basically pieces of paper 6. If your community prints its own money and accepts it, provided your community can provide your goods, materials and services you need, you can free yourself 7. If you live off the grid and without needing to borrow money or goods, you are truly free (but it's a tough life)

  • @windrasshean
    @windrasshean 3 роки тому +23

    "Bring back the gold standard!"

    • @juanducas6967
      @juanducas6967 3 роки тому

      👆This

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 3 роки тому +1

      or just use crypto!

    • @Ken-nv2hl
      @Ken-nv2hl 3 роки тому

      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 3 роки тому

      No unless you own a goldmine

  • @haniseokchan
    @haniseokchan 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @davidpowell6098
    @davidpowell6098 3 роки тому +8

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

  • @CoL_Drake
    @CoL_Drake 3 роки тому +1

    compound interest
    is the BIGGEST mistake in capitalism and will be the reason of its downfall in the end.

  • @Waterfront975
    @Waterfront975 3 роки тому +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.

  • @JimmyIsTheBest1
    @JimmyIsTheBest1 2 роки тому

    The beep at 9:40 scared the living shit out of me

  • @djayjp
    @djayjp Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому

      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$.

  • @scotta4623
    @scotta4623 2 роки тому

    Great video!, did not like that loud beep though, made me jump and I spilled me coffee

  • @williamrbuchanan4153
    @williamrbuchanan4153 3 роки тому +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.

  • @blacklightfamilycircle4425
    @blacklightfamilycircle4425 Рік тому

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

  • @Ironborn4
    @Ironborn4 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @beastmr919
      @beastmr919 3 роки тому

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

  • @tophercIaus
    @tophercIaus 3 роки тому +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.

  • @killy1
    @killy1 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +6

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

    • @pikameme3322
      @pikameme3322 3 роки тому +1

      Bitcoin?

  • @Romogi
    @Romogi 3 роки тому

    The truth is no one really knows what it is or what the debt limits are.

  • @darkyada71
    @darkyada71 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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

  • @MachineThatCreates
    @MachineThatCreates 3 роки тому +1

    Anybody notice that the debt NEVER gets repaid it just gets serviced. Just one big con. That's Capitalism for you. Meanwhile you and I spend half our lives working for pittance.

  • @mhmdnazel1
    @mhmdnazel1 3 роки тому +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.

  • @blossomjoseph5541
    @blossomjoseph5541 3 роки тому +1

    For every debtor, there is a debtee

  • @therealest7179
    @therealest7179 3 роки тому +10

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

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri 3 роки тому +1

      More like a gold/platinum bank!

  • @sirBrouwer
    @sirBrouwer 3 роки тому +1

    there is a extra option with extreme debt. it is similar to defaulting but in state that nation A declares it can't pay back it's loans. nation B (that has given the credit) might just wright of a portion of the debt to nation A if that mean nation B knows that keeping nation A functioning is more profitable than to let it go full bankrupt.

  • @jh5401
    @jh5401 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @jimmysimms2399
    @jimmysimms2399 3 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +4

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

    • @billh.1940
      @billh.1940 2 роки тому

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

    • @absolutium
      @absolutium Рік тому +1

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

  • @sanjayk3094
    @sanjayk3094 3 роки тому

    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.

  • @kumbaya69421
    @kumbaya69421 3 роки тому +8

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

  • @babyllama3473
    @babyllama3473 3 роки тому +1

    money is gold standard. that has been the same since before we started printing it. its resources, money is not the demand for it that's mistaking inflation. make a video on why everyone owes everyone plz.

  • @ryanmaris1917
    @ryanmaris1917 3 роки тому +13

    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 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому

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

  • @NoOne-jy6mc
    @NoOne-jy6mc 3 роки тому +1

    You could fix all the debt by simply printing more money. Who cares if prices inflate, just print more to pay the higher price! Simple. Currency crashes, and new currency comes in? No problem. Print more of the new currency. At the end of the day, the ground has practically unlimited resources, and businesses won't ever stop manufacturing. There will always be plenty of goods for everyone, even if manufacturing drops to 1%. Since the invention of machinery, 1 person can easily produce enough product for 100 people. The trick is to print just enough to pay debts off, and a little more to support struggling persons/businesses. But don't print much more than that, or people will get lazy because they have too much money and don't want to work anymore. But even then, as I said before, some businesses just won't ever stop manufacturing no matter what, and the ground has centuries worth of resources.

  • @ricf9592
    @ricf9592 3 роки тому +9

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

    • @philbuell6657
      @philbuell6657 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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

  • @Temo990
    @Temo990 3 роки тому +2

    Didn't the Keynesian attitude say that countries should increase taxes once the economy is on the peak of success?
    At least from what I have learn it is a cycle of up and down:
    Invest in a crisis, but get the money back in times of economic success.
    The great problem with that theory is that governments and companies like spending money of the country
    but do no like getting it back.

  • @Hibashira007
    @Hibashira007 3 роки тому +19

    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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому

      @@beburs China bad. China red on map.

    • @williamdickerson8898
      @williamdickerson8898 3 роки тому

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

    • @alpearson9158
      @alpearson9158 3 роки тому

      @@williamdickerson8898 trying

  • @comokazijeff
    @comokazijeff 3 роки тому

    Great video!! Thanks for the great info.

  • @BotConnorrr
    @BotConnorrr 3 роки тому +5

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

  • @tusharaggarwal4707
    @tusharaggarwal4707 3 роки тому

    Thanks, for providing such valuable information.🙏

  • @fefifofob
    @fefifofob 3 роки тому +9

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

  • @halamish1
    @halamish1 2 роки тому

    Very good explanation

  • @kkillerz6991
    @kkillerz6991 3 роки тому +8

    Greece awkwardly sits in corner

  • @old_grey_cat
    @old_grey_cat 3 роки тому

    Pehaps make a section on the modern monetary theory take, which I think is something like - if a government puts out payments to its residents officially "borrowed" from its own government bank, and that money is spent on payments to the poorest (who will usually spend it on food, health, education, and rent, improving later productivity and helping current local GDP ) and local work and buying things produced by local companies, it is a different type of spending than the usual "deficit" spending and has different long-term outcomes. Which makes "national debt" even more complex.

  • @elvoandro7087
    @elvoandro7087 3 роки тому +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.

    • @bassam_salim
      @bassam_salim 3 роки тому

      @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

  • @gcraib
    @gcraib 3 роки тому +1

    You can't add up all the debt! Some of it will be mutual and therefore cancel each other out.
    In theory it would all cancel out of at least add up to zero when combined with the total money supply. But because of interest rates, the total debt will exceed the total amount of money and thereby be impossible to repay.

  • @randomshift
    @randomshift 3 роки тому +8

    All money is debt! Irrelevant but fun fact.
    Debt (including government debt) is good if you use it for investment that has higher rate of return than the debt interest rate. In short; make sure your governments do not spend money frivolously and you do not have to worry about debt.

    • @royalecrafts6252
      @royalecrafts6252 3 роки тому

      Goverments usually do déficit spending tho thats the bad part

    • @Stszelec01
      @Stszelec01 3 роки тому

      Tell that to bitcoin its finite so there can't be type of debt

  • @notarmchairhistorian7779
    @notarmchairhistorian7779 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @Pyron27
    @Pyron27 3 роки тому +11

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

  • @asepheleleshabalala1352
    @asepheleleshabalala1352 3 роки тому

    I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EXPLAINER FOREVER.

  • @richard999
    @richard999 3 роки тому +4

    You are avoiding the elephant in the room - the US is printing money when it should be borrowing 😀

    • @beastmr919
      @beastmr919 3 роки тому

      Bro 😂😂 you think you can just print out mony when ever you like ? You pobably don't know anything about how printing money wors go search it up

  • @hawkkim1974
    @hawkkim1974 3 роки тому +1

    this Debt is an illusion. Who owns the debts?

  • @WineZ22
    @WineZ22 3 роки тому +47

    Ahh yes. The Land of the Rising Debt.
    I wonder how Japan is still functioning and not defaulting on their debt.
    With COVID around and the Olympic might get canceled, their debt will be increasing.

    • @C104-k5m
      @C104-k5m 3 роки тому +33

      pretty much for the same reason people believe in money in the first place - japan has an extremely developed stable economy making regular returns on the bonds, the problem is that soon the Japanese government will need to take on more dept to pay of the dividends. Normally that would cause a default as investors are running from their sinking ship. This does not happen in Japan, as a large share of its creditors are the actual Japanese, who trust in their country.

    • @reheyesd8666
      @reheyesd8666 3 роки тому +4

      @@C104-k5m Well government interest, is negative. If they can solve the deficit issue they can start paying off their debts.

    • @erikohlsson9360
      @erikohlsson9360 3 роки тому +4

      @@C104-k5m Until, that is, the japaneese want their money back, the japaneese government starts printing money to accommodate, and you get hyperinflation. But a lot less of a problem owing your self money then owing others for sure.

    • @flavoursofguilt
      @flavoursofguilt 3 роки тому +6

      You might want to look into the idea of "Modern Monetary Theory", which in a nutshell tries to address and explain how it can be that debt just keeps constantly rising and the economy still functioning, because (heavily oversimplified) the governments can kinda print their own money and can control it via taxation and other measures.
      It is criticised by many economists, so take it with a grain of salt, but it's also called by many other economists "to be more effective in describing the global economy in the years following the Great Recession of 2007-2009", soo... I'd say it's at least kinda interesting to think about.

    • @EduardoEscarez
      @EduardoEscarez 3 роки тому

      Their debt is mostly in local currency and bought internally, so weirdly it doesn't faces the constrains of other countries. Like the common joke, the are the develop countries, in developing, Japan and Argentina 🤷‍♂️

  • @sukharevasyndrome
    @sukharevasyndrome 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @mikebikekite1
    @mikebikekite1 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому +5

      @@mikebikekite1 youre confusing nato with the UN

    • @seokjinshairstrand5144
      @seokjinshairstrand5144 Рік тому

      @@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

  • @MM-np4md
    @MM-np4md 3 роки тому +1

    Now this is a great video, I learnt something!

  • @theafricanillustrator979
    @theafricanillustrator979 3 роки тому +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 3 роки тому

      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 3 роки тому

      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

  • @Nabraska49
    @Nabraska49 Рік тому +1

    Yes that’s the story in front of the curtain.. but it’s not the real story..

  • @myxsys
    @myxsys 3 роки тому +3

    9:40 You are confusing money with *fiat* currency

  • @costin6563
    @costin6563 3 роки тому

    You are so underrated, these animations are amazing!

  • @YTBCONE
    @YTBCONE 3 роки тому +11

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

    • @SwissSareth
      @SwissSareth 3 роки тому +4

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

    • @samuelmelcher333
      @samuelmelcher333 3 роки тому +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

    • @YTBCONE
      @YTBCONE 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @YTBCONE
      @YTBCONE 3 роки тому +2

      @@mihaicristian It's been corrected!!