Europe's Web Of Debt

The diagram, as others have said, is old, here is probably the most updated version:<p><a href="http://www.thepeakeffect.com/2011/09/europes-web-of-debt-update.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thepeakeffect.com/2011/09/europes-web-of-debt-upd...</a><p>no mention of sources though.

For me, the most shocking thing in the web is that Ireland and its banks owe $867 billion. That's approximately $188,000 for every man, woman, and child in Ireland.

This diagram is 1.5 years old (May 2010). How much has changed since then?

What countries are running surpluses?

Sadly most edges seem to be rather one-way - otherwise it might have been a fun exercise to cancel everything out.

It would be interesting to see the per-capita debt additionally to the total debt.

The source is from Bank for International Settlements, which has a nice interactive web app for doing your own analysis. <a href="http://stats.bis.org/" rel="nofollow">http://stats.bis.org/</a> The data in this table is almost a year and a half old.

Be a lot better if Germany, France, and the US were on there. You'd see how tiny Greece is in the big picture. A lot of people are going to get hurt just to teach a few Greeks a lesson.

The more I read and hear about the debt problems of the Eurozone, I wonder how France and Germany ever got duped into joining in the first place.