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Thanks for your understanding.
Chris -- 2018-04-11
Net Debt Per Capital
The debt a government holds divided by the number of citizens under that government’s jurisdiction.
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What is the per-capital real GDP?
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This has some plausibility as an eggcorn when money is being discussed, as the perps could be thinking of “capital” in the financial sense.
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It has means, motive and opportunity. Arrest that eggcorn.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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