>>>>>I had no idea - amazing
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>>>>>http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stodgy-netherlands-is-nation-thatll-blow-up-euro-2013-05-08
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>>>>Odd that it retains the triple A rating when the UK does not. Must be other factors at work.......
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>>>Where's Walter when you need him. He'll tell you its British propaganda to stave off their own evils.... that there is nothing wrong ...
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>>Maybe U.S. propaganda - the article was from WSJ
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>Another US news org shows Ireland as #1 and Netherlands as #4 (don't know the date - it may have changed):
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>http://www.cnbc.com/id/30308959/page/21
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>Then I clicked around and noticed different lists by external debt, public debt, etc and the list seems to change each year.

Hmm - and UK at No. 2 !
But I was looking for figures on consumer/household debt specifically because those were the figures quoted in the original article....