Month: August 2026

$40 Trillion and Counting

In December 2010, we wrote an article called PIIGS Get Slaughtered about the debt crises unfolding in Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain (a.k.a. “The PIIGS”). At the time, these countries were being forced to confront the consequences of years of borrowing and spending as investors increasingly questioned their ability to repay their debts. We…