debt in real time

[jmmartinnu2]

What's the problem of not having this feature?
from here you can see the national debt of any country in real time... it's interesting if you insert it too

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[JerBouma]

Why is this feature relevant for you to include? E.g. what do you infer from it that helps in your investment decisions?

[jmmartinnu2]

It is more visual information in case someone is curious about the level of debt, like a command that opens the web directly. Similar to when you open finviz heatmap. clear debt that affects the investment decision! example can be a determining factor if, for example, you are thinking of investing in emerging countries and first of all you want to see their level of indebtedness

[colin99d]

@JerBouma if this feature was added, where would you want to see it?

[JerBouma]

Within economy, over here:

I think it's fine we add something like this but we don't want too many commands that just link to a website.

[colin99d]

I was going to scrape the data.

[JerBouma]

Oh that sounds good then!

[colin99d]

It looks like that website will not be possible to scrape. Would this one be useful: https://commodity.com/data/debt-clock/. I am not sure how often they update it.

[JerBouma]

Yeah that source looks good, their data comes from sources that tend to update monthly. While you are at it, could you include in the table the following

• Country name
• Total debt
• Population
• Debt per capita (total debt / population)

Also good to note that it is all in U.S. dollars to prevent confusion when you look at the Debt of the Netherlands for example.