Data from the IMF must be taken with a grain of salt given that their agenda is to provide loans with impossible terms and then repossess national resources when a country defaults.<p>&quot;America has put [the debt crisis] behind it&quot; isn&#x27;t quite true either. A large part of the cash withdrawn from ZIRP and quantitative easing has gone straight into record-setting stock buybacks over the last three years, propping up the market and increasing income inequality without creating any real value or skilled jobs.