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- From: jag@wembley.trl.OZ.AU (John Gilmour)
- Subject: Re: Australian Products?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.041641.12168@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne,Australia
- References: <1993Jan19.034237.12697@trl.oz.au> <7162@otc.otca.oz>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:16:41 GMT
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- In article <7162@otc.otca.oz>, brendan@otc.otca.oz (Brendan Jones) writes:
-
- |> How many people realise that, per capita, the USA has both a higher Federal
- |> Budget Deficit and net Foreign Debt than Australia?
-
- I read a recent BRW article recently that stated that Australia has the
- third largest Foreign Debt in the world. It talked about the US having
- a gigantic National Debt (as opposed to Foreign Debt) which I took
- to mean funds were borrowed onshore, and that this wasn't such a bad
- thing.
-
- Another point the BRW article made was that Australia wasn't going to
- solve it's current account problems until our national savings rate
- was significantly increased - our merchanise trade figures are often
- in surplus.
-
-
-
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- John Gilmour, Telecom Research Labs, P.O. 249, Clayton, Vic., 3168, Australia.
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