You're right. Portugal looks actually a bit worse than Greece at roughly the same size of the economy: http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock http:/

You're right. Portugal looks actually a bit worse than Greece at roughly the same size of the economy: http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock Maybe it was too close geographically to the big players and that's how it avoided being made the first example :-) BTW, besides people in developed countries living longer we also have the problem of fewer children in each new generation. Not even immigration can balance the low birth rate in Italy, for example. Right now we have only one third of the population working and supporting the other two thirds and the percentage of active people keeps on shrinking. When will it become unsustainable? What will the Italian government do then? > The global economic situation at the moment is very interesting. Way too interesting for my taste. And the sea level rise will make it even more so. I'd rather read about stuff like this in dystopian novels instead of living it...