{"id":2021,"date":"2012-01-03T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2017-01-19T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:59:36","slug":"in-focus-americas-debt-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=2021","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: America&#8217;s Debt to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-right: 4px;\" title=\"Political Insight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/data\/pi_12-2011_cover.gif\" alt=\"Political Insight\" \/>Amid Europe&#8217;s debt crisis it remains less noticed that the largest mountain of debt in the world is piled up across the big pond in the United States of America. The topic will be critically debated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/us-politics\" target=\"_blank\">US politics<\/a> as presidential elections are due in 2012. In an article for the &#8220;In Focus&#8221; section of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psa.ac.uk\/insight-plus\" target=\"_blank\">Political Insight<\/a> (December 2011, Volume 2, Issue 3) <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.2041-9066.2011.00086.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Dorling and I<\/a> took a closer look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=1725\">foreign liabilities of America&#8217;s debt<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe map we created for this feature is a cartogram with the world&#8217;s countries resized according to the total amount of US treasury securities that are held in each country (as shown in data from July 2011). This is a preview of the maps that we created for the article:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Political Insight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/data\/pi_12-2011_map.jpg\" alt=\"Map of the world with countries resized according to the total amount of US treasury securities that are held in each country, July 2011\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere are the bibliographic details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hennig, B. D. and Dorling, D.<\/strong> (2011). In Focus: America&#8217;s Debt to the World. <em>Political Insight<\/em> 2 (3): 34.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.2041-9066.2011.00086.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Article online<\/a> (Wiley)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See more maps about debt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?tag=debt\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?page_id=631\" target=\"_blank\">contact me<\/a> for further details on the terms of use.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid Europe&#8217;s debt crisis it remains less noticed that the largest mountain of debt in the world is piled up across the big pond in the United States of America. 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