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S&P cuts Russian debt rating
Russia's debt to GDP ratio stood at around 11 percent at the end of last year, compared to more than 100 percent among countries such as Italy or Greece.
This in contrast with the US's GDP ratio of 72.5 [LINK]

With this metric, bigger is definitely not better.
Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-04-26
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=390048