So, as a father, as a husband, I will forever be in debt to the women and men of your profession.
The argument for doing so is that there would be a reduction in the amount of debt that needs to be refinanced in the short term.
After an unprecedented wave of debt relief, it would be a shame to drown in debt again.
Then there was the lie that an economy saturated in debt could be stimulated to heights of prosperity by splashing on more debt.
"We're only part of a worldwide attempt to cancel this debt because these people will never be able to live in decent conditions until that debt is cancelled, " he said.
This time the club won a temporary 28 day reprieve to allow the debt to be paid in full - or for the club itself to seek liquidation.
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Its statement also said that outside of the formal bond market, no more than 35% of a bank's total issued wealth-management products should be invested in debt or used to make loans.
Indebted governments would be able to transfer debt in excess of a 60% of national income or GDP to a debt reduction fund which would agree to freeze the money owed for 10 years in return for the government carrying out agreed economic reform.
Should this occur, future earnings will continuously need to be set aside in order to satisfy that debt, rather than to facilitate company expansion or provide return to shareholders.
In fact, given that the largest holders of Greek debt, those institutions, are not going to take a loss, the loss to private investors might have to be 100% in order to reduce the debt burden.
These unborn generations cannot vote on how the money is spent, they cannot ensure that the money will be put to productive uses and they may not be in a position to repay that debt.
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"We thought she had money, it is very surprising that her goods are now having to be auctioned in order to recoup funds for a debt, " one of them told CNN.
You can imagine how unpopular it would be to add even minimally to our debt problems in order to help rescue Europe, even if in the process we saved ourselves from a repeat of 2008.
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To break it down to its essential message: credit cards want you to be in debt.
Another, by Rob Portman of Ohio, sought to require that any immediate increase in the debt limit be paired with commensurate cuts to spending, which could be spread out over 10 years.
Much of the positive tone surrounding the euro can be credited to another successful Spanish debt auction in which the government was able to move 3.5 billion euro worth of 5-year bonds.
The check should be payable, as above, to the Bureau of the Public Debt, and be sure to put a note in the Memo Section of your check.
The banking system in Europe may be in dangerous territory due to the sovereign debt crisis, but those issues are not coming home to roost in America to any large degree according to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
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The nation actually reached its debt ceiling yesterday and, while the Treasury Department says that it can continue to pay outstanding debt obligations and other bills for another two months, there will need to be an all new debt ceiling battle in Congress beginning in February to allow the nation to continuing making payments on its debt obligations.
Avi Tiomkin, a New York advisor to hedge funds who predicted the demise of the euro in 2008, says the market is starting to realize that in the end Germany is either going to be handed the bill for the European debt crisis, in which case its debt will be downgraded below Greece, or Germany will let the euro go.
Many will respond to this by saying that the U.S. remains the cleanest dirty shirt, and that a financial panic is likely to be global in which case investors will flock to our debt as a relatively safe haven.
The more recent concerns, that an agreement to extend the Bush-era tax cuts would not be reached by year-end, and that the debt ceiling would not be raised in time to prevent the government from shutting down by mid-February, have been kicked down the road by several months.
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Boehner continued to make some questionable claims when suggesting there was bi-partisan support among the leadership in the Senate for his latest bill that would call for a small increase in the debt ceiling now with the issue to be addressed again in six months.
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Debt-management firms have to be licensed under the Consumer Credit Act in order to offer their services to people who have serious debt problems.
Greece's official lenders, led by the International Monetary Fund, have been pushing for lower coupons and longer maturities on the new bonds to be offered to existing investors, increasing the debt relief in net present value terms to up to 70%.
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The worse the haircuts are for creditors, the harder it will be to issue debt in the future.
Some argue that one important fix to the system is to allow for student loan debt to be discharged in bankruptcy.
If you have a longer-term investment horizon, you will probably be better able to withstand fluctuations in the market related to the Greece debt debacle.
Finally, if the aforementioned steps have not proven successful, or your situation is on the more serious end of the spectrum, it might be time to call in the debt cavalry.
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