LIBOR, the other component in debt cost, is at historic lows and continued loose monetary policy by the US Federal Reserve and other central banks in developed economies is expected to hold it there.
Now, ultimately, all this rising debt will cost us jobs and damage our economy.
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But if we stay on the current path, our growing debt could cost us jobs and do serious damage to the economy.
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Italy has Europe's second-largest debt level and the cost of that debt has been rising in recent weeks as lenders to Italy have become nervous about its ability to repay loans.
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The cost of insuring French debt is rising and is well above the cost of insuring German and British debt, according to news reports.
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It said the high cost of debt recovery meant it was not always cost-effective to pursue some fines.
And there has been a lesser but still striking increase in the cost of insuring French government debt, which looks like a contributor to the big rise in the cost of insuring the debt of big French banks such as Societe Generale.
By reducing the benefit, municipalities will be forced to pay significantly higher rates, increasing their annual debt-service cost.
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Organizations like CCS offer confidential, free or low-cost debt and credit counseling services.
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Every major company has taken advantage of the lowest interest rates in our lifetime to lock in low cost debt for years to come.
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Rates are eerily low right now and it makes quite a bit of sense to take on debt when the cost is so appealing.
They no longer have inflated balance sheets with high cost debt.
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This was mostly down to high house prices, high youth unemployment, rising public debt and the cost of education, added Prof Sefton, who is also a quantitative analyst at UBS bank.
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That isn't a good reason to borrow for a wedding or vacation, but it might make sense for those who borrow judiciously for something that is an investment, such as a house, education or eliminating high-cost debt to free up more savings.
Since the redline is defined in debt repayment dollars (not total debt outstanding), it will remind you to cut back on charges if interest rates rise and increase the cost of debt repayment obligations.
As the debt burden rises, so too does the cost of servicing the debt increase as a share of the growth the economy is capable of generating.
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Using the maturity structure of the existing U.S. Treasury marketable debt, the table below shows estimates of what would happen to the cost of the debt in five years under different rising interest rate scenarios.
Australia is attractive to some given the low cost of debt and decent yield on offer.
And bad debt ratings mean the cost of borrowing money goes up and profits drop.
Then the argument shifts to how much increasing the debt is going to cost us or hurt us.
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That will now have to rise to around 3.3%, merely to compensate for the extra cost of debt servicing.
Yes, the biggest driver of our long-term debt is the rising cost of health care for an aging population.
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The cost of debt should remain relatively flat but could face upward pressure.
Debt has an obvious cost: the interest rate on a bond or loan.
Were the cancelled deals so marginal, and so dependent on cheap credit, that a relatively small rise in the cost of debt ruined them?
Unfortunately the unintended-but-foreseeable consequences of this modest proposal included driving up the cost of debt for the very nations that it meant to (potentially) save.
Think of the debt as a sunk cost (I am reminded of all those nuclear reactors that weighed down utility stocks in the 1980s and 1990s).
That, they hope, will nudge Brazil into a virtuous circle, in which they can cut interest rates, and thus the cost of debt-service and, in turn, reduce the size of the surplus needed to steady the debt burden.
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