"Stay-at-home kids are bankrupting our country!" It sounds like a scaremongering headline from a tabloid, but according to M&G it may have an element of truth, as the percentage of men living with their parents correlates with the perceived likelihood of their country defaulting.

Fixed income house M&G has produced a graph measuring the percentage of men aged 25-34 living with their parents in 2008, against today's five-year credit default swap of eurozone countries.