If all nations are in Debt, who is the lender?

Those are the ones who inherit an ever-increasing dept load.

...yada yada..."be the lender not the borrower"... yada yada...

Good question.

Most obvious answer is: the bondholders.

Some of these will be other governments (China) and some will be private parties and corporations.

I'd like to see an accounting of this, if it's available.

Amen Jubilee...amen op

Isn't happening.

Italy recently sold some of their palaces and castles to pay some of their national debt. Greece is considering selling some of their islands in the Adriatic.

And a columnist in the Washington Post proposed the USA sell Alaska to China to pay that debt.

The debt was "no big deal" while it was being run up. Now the damned creditors are being deadly serious about collecting.

That's true, there is a saying:

Parents sins affect children

Some ask "how do we lend money to others while we have money problems too"

Well, even if we never borrow "money" from anyone, still these "money" are not for you. You have to realise this, these money are extra "air money" they have to lend and make big profit. If they would spend them on you people they wouldnt be able to get back as much as they do now, even with the biggest taxation.

Absolutely. People nowadays are borrowing prosperity from the future to keep the ponzi scheme going, and we're not even spending it on infrastructure, science, education, or something of value. The inheritance of our children and grandchildren is being spent on McMansions, Playstations, Ipads, impossible to win land wars in Asia, handouts for high fructose corn syrup and MSG loaded "foods", bailouts of billion dollar corporations and banks, and other non-productive uses of resources that don't grow the real economy at all. These things do fill the pockets of TPTB, though. Our children and grandchildren will hate us, and who could blame them? They are the lenders, their quality of life will suffer accordingly, and they will never get paid back. I hope they pay backtheir fat, ignorant, cowardly parents in kind by making them work until they die with no Social Security or Medicare.

Oh you're right. And not only this, we do pass them a decreased envirenment, bad food/water, bad working conditions... in fact we act like there is no tomorrow.

Syrian debt: 13% of GDP, $373 per capita
Iranian debt: 4% of GDP, $170 per capita

I find these numbers highly concerning and unacceptable, clearly they need to be stopped.

i think they are out of the system, arent they?

Yep, no Rothy bank there.

more important, where is all of that money. 16 trillion for the USA alone... Where is it??

The Quote of the Decade:

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

That does not answer where the money comes from,your the noob.

They've enslaved the world though fictitious debt. and yet. Nobody is looking for a rope.

The rest of the world is your own becuase you have quotas to let them all in forever.