Chart of the day: Correlation between bad debt, unemployment and GDP in Spain
Scott Barber of Reuters shows us with the chart below that over the last 30 years bad debt in Spain has tracked unemployment and moved inversely with GDP growth. The higher the percentage of doubtful loans is, the lower GDP growth and the higher unemployment are.
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