Apparently this scheme attempts to have only the banks and not the government bear responsibility for debt repayment.
Besides debt repayment obligations, AMR is likely to bear high interest costs as refinancing debt on favorable terms would be very challenging for the airline, given its history of poor operating profitability.
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Markets have already tested the ability of the weakest governments to bear the burden of their debt.
Most of that modest decline is simply a function of lower interest rates, which have made debt easier to bear.
Lower growth than that would make the public debt harder to bear and scare off the foreign capital that India needs to fund its current-account deficit and pay for its imported energy.
The alternative, which some regulators prefer, is to create a specific layer of debt that would bear losses if a bank fails, without (it is hoped) triggering a run of all creditors.
Strikingly, the financial conglomerate is paying slightly higher interest on its five-year debt than Lehman or Bear Stearns.
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Banks do bear some of the losses on debt that has been securitized - credit card debt, I should say, that has been securitized.
If their economies are too fragile to reschedule Greek debt, then they certainly cannot bear a messy default.
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News earlier this week that a third Bear Stearns hedge fund, laden with mortgage debt, might be faltering raised even more concerns about the company.
Movie theater owners, mired in expansion debt, say they shouldn't bear the cost of going digital.
This is an untenable level of debt that future generations would have to bear.
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That could be simply too much for the companies, whose debt is already rated as junk, to bear.
Pensioners would be better off, possibly at the expense of future taxpayers, who would bear the burden of repaying the government's more costly debt.
For some this proves that Italy is an oversize Greece: a country with a debt burden that is too heavy for it to bear and, unlike Greece, for others to help shoulder.
Since interest paid to the Fed, the Social Security system and other government pension funds is effectively rebated to the Treasury, taxpayers currently bear only the burden of interest on 60% of this debt.
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He thinks the bull market in equity still has some legs, though not long ones, and thinks the bear market in gold will reverse as the West continues to face debt problems and inflation.
Monthly-dividend payers can be concentrated in the same sector, may have high correlations during a bear market, and are usually small or mid-cap securities with larger debt obligations.
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With most of the country's major lenders discovering billion-dollar losses linked to bad mortgage debt as the US housing market collapsed, investment banks such as Bear Stearns needed government funds ahead of being sold off cheaply, while another, Lehman Brothers, was ultimately closed down.
Right now, he sees vast similarities between the bond market today and the low-interest rate world with high debt-to-GDP after World War II that led to a generational bear market in bonds.
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What it takes is a willingness, as we see it, of Republicans to accept the fact that it is only fair and right that the wealthiest Americans bear some of the burden here of reducing our deficit and getting our long-term debt under control, and listen to their constituents instead of to Grover Norquist about what the right priorities here are.
If debt continues to grow as the economy contracts, it will become even harder to bear.
The Bear Stearns group includes Gregory Hanley and Alan Mintz, former co-heads of the distressed-debt group.
While the English case didn't bear specifically on his work, it got Mr. Ice thinking about the concept of ownership of a debt, he says.
That's the kind of drastic action you have to take if you are basically saying those who have done the best over the last 30 years, and especially over the last 10 years, should bear no burden for dealing with this significant issue, which is the need to reduce our deficit and debt.
Among the owners of Hilton's debt is the Federal Reserve, which took over loans that had been granted to the firm by Bear Stearns, a failed investment bank.
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Neelkanth Mishra, a strategist at Credit Suisse and a longstanding bear on the economy, reckons the quality of capital coming in is falling too, with flightier and riskier debt rather than stickier equity investments.
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