The company doesn't face an imminent debt bomb, having no big bond maturities until 2006.

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By that measure, the U.S. still has some time before the debt bomb explodes.

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At the same time Japan faces a debt bomb at home, it is also the world's largest creditor.

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Yes, increasing liquidity would aid borrowers in the short-term, but that tactic would only make the debt bomb bigger.

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With Japan's economy spiraling deeper into downturn, the world may wonder why the fuse of the country's debt bomb has burned so long with so little domestic response.

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Analysts have long been worried about the ticking debt bomb.

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In the new Bizarro World that is the global economy post-2008, the US is the debt bomb waiting to explode while major nations like Brazil are mostly busy running surpluses.

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But Miller could hear the debt bomb ticking.

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Now add the debt bomb into the mix.

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The country is also facing the systematic risks of a Greek debt bomb blowing up in the EU, making it harder for countries to convince financial institutions to lend at reasonable rates, if at all.

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Economic growth will help prevent another financial time bomb--credit default swaps, a form of debt insurance--from exploding.

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First, the Economist magazine ran a much-publicised supplement warning of a "time bomb" unless France reformed fast, and now Moody's has downgraded French debt from its triple-A rating, citing the country's lack of growth and loss of competitiveness.

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