This is a slightly different take on the global imbalance. For years I’ve wondered who the world is in debt to, as the global debt mounts up - it turns out it’s for these billions of dollars worth of export surplus. This are both views of the same thing - a broken economic system where all the markers are being gamed so much that the books don’t balance, and they don’t balance to the tune of 330 billion according to this article.

Either that, or we really are exporting to mars.