David Hunkar

U.S. Tops List of Countries with the Largest External Debt

Whidbey
Yes it does in my opinion. For example, some folks prefer investing in countries where external debt is low or reduced on YOY basis.

IMF Global Economic Outlook 2009

The Jan 5 edition of BusinessWeek says that their survey of 45 economists predicts that the US economy will contract by just 0.2% in 2009. This figure is much more optimistic than IMF's 1.6%.

So neither the IMF nor the BW survey seems to be correct. Lets see how it turns out.

A Comparison of OECD Countries

Yamu
Yes that would be interesting to evaluate. However I am not sure how often OECD updates their data for currency changes.If I find anything interesting I will write about it in a future post.

-David