Italy fact of the day

Italy spends a full 14 percent of its aggregate output on pension benefits for retired government employees.

There is much more, most of it depressing, here.  The good news is that most Italians own their homes outright and so there is this sentence:

Were more Italians to take out mortgages on their houses to buy government bonds, for example, Italy could eliminate its interest-payment problem.

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