Overall municipal debt is relatively low and debt burden (the ratio of how much is paid on debt service relative to total budget) averages under 5% according to the most recent U.S. Census data.
More interest paid on debt would mean less money elsewhere and likely more serious government cutbacks.
The company has paid down debt and built up its balance sheet over the past two years.
Olivio Dutra, the Workers' Party governor of Rio Grande do Sul, has paid its debt dues into an escrow account.
Particularly when the less painful way to reduce debt and the interest paid on that debt is through inflation via QE.
The idea is that, as long as the investment returns on the money raised are higher than the interest rates paid on debt, everyone gains.
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But on average, reports the Bank, in the 1990s the heavily indebted poor countries received about twice as much in aid as they paid in debt service.
Legg Mason ( LM - news - people ) shares moved more than 3% higher after the bell on word the company has paid off debt and amended its debt agreements with its lender.
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Traditionally people have accumulated wealth over their lifetime, becoming richer over time as they saved, invested, paid down debt growing their nest eggs, acquiring full ownership of their homes, and securing the years of service needed for a nice monthly pension.
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The de-leveraging of the past three years as companies cut costs, restored profits and paid down debt may have drawn to a close in Europe, and in America it has given way to a mild net increase in borrowing to finance more capital spending and share buybacks.
He has served his term in prison, he's paid his debt to society, no one ever said that the House of Lords is something you can kick people out of and indeed the House of Lords, after a gulp or two, may actually be much enriched by contributions from a prisoner who's really been through it.
With all eyes riveted on the debt talks and efforts to avert an economy-busting government default, little attention is being paid to another debt that is similarly ballooning out of control and threatening to spur its own economic chaos.
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According to the Treasury Department, the average interest rate paid on that debt was 4.9%.
Since then, consumers have paid down enough debt to reduce this ratio by about 12 percent.
Retire when you have your debt paid off, even if it takes a few years longer.
The site automatically awards one credit for every dollar saved or every dollar of debt paid off.
The donor would get back partnership shares equaling fair market value of the property less paid-off debt.
Another dictator, the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has come to the rescue and paid the Belarusian debt to Gazprom.
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Freeport Copper is now flowing cash and has paid down its debt.
From the chart guys at Business Insider, this is the interest paid on US debt to banks and foreign holders of government bonds.
Among his clients, the vast majority paid off their debt before retiring, says Paxton Farese, founder and chief executive of Farese Group in Ridgeland, Miss.
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With the demand outstripping the supply for the Apple bonds, the investment bankers were able to lower the interest rate to be paid on the debt.
Investing in product development around the world, including China, Ford faced higher commodity and structural costs, while it saw sales increase and it paid off its debt.
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We had always thought that the leveraged buyout and takeover trends would self-destruct as soon as stock prices got so high that it no longer paid to substitute debt for equity.
But while GM is surviving, and paid off its debt last year, investment banks are still falling apart and will likely have to shed parts of their assets in order to stay in business.
Some of their oft-maligned reforms have come to fruition, ironically, under Mr Putin: helped by high oil prices, the economy is growing around 7% a year, the government budget is in surplus, inflation has been tamed and debt paid off.
The Developing Country Debt Bill which will be discussed in the House of Commons on Wednesday would only allow the funds to sue for what they had paid for the debt, not the 10 or even 100 times as at present.
As a side benefit, the impact on the federal deficit of the sale of the new securities would be positive in the short term, because the dividends would be less than the interest that would have otherwise been paid on Treasury debt.
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