via @IIF [Institute of International Finance] on Twitter today
"[Emerging Market] non-financial corporate indebtedness rose more than $1.6 trillion in H1 2016, surpassing $26 trillion"
The report this comes from is available to members only.
Note that corporate Saudi Arabia is currently accruing large amounts of debt. Not sure what is going on there!
A brief recap on what happens when the private sector gets over indebted. Business changes its behaviour from maximising profit to minimising debt. Rather than investing in growth, business seeks to minimise their interest payments. It's really the only rational thing to do. But it results in an economic slow down. Richard Koo calls this a balance sheet recession. He explains it well in this short video.
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Keep is seemly & on-topic. Thanks.