Oct 172010
 

CNBC reports that Niall Ferguson in an interview believes Europe, Japan and the U.S. will incur sovereign defaults. According to their report:

The explosion of public debt will inevitably lead to either inflation or default …

Ferguson was quoted as saying: “It just depends on whether you borrow in your own currency in which case is probably going to be inflation; or someone else’s, in which case is probably a default.”

You can read the piece and watch the interview here.

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