(Bloomberg) -- Warning: The world is suffering from a debt hangover of unprecedented proportions. Eight years after the financial crisis, gross debt in the non-financial sector has more than doubled in nominal terms since the turn of the century, reaching $152 trillion last year, according to the International Monetary Fund. That's equivalent to 225 percent -- a record -- of world gross domestic product.
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