Most tax discussions about debt focus on debts that you owe.
As a result, now the company needs fast growth to make up ground and put it on a more sustainable debt track before large debts start coming due.
This list should include credit card debt, student loans, home mortgage or equity loans, medical debt and any other outstanding debts you have.
But in his BBC interview he reiterated that his "substantial strategy to deal with Britain's debts in a global debt storm" was essential to keep interest rates down.
From the sidelines, many voices say that the answer to all of this is to launch a eurobond that would essentially turn national debts into common European debt.
It also GREATLY exacerbated the sovereign debt bubble, government deficits and National Debts.
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This is because countries tend not to actually pay off their debts: they hope that the economy will grow faster than the debt and so will become less important but they very rarely actually pay off the old debts.
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When you have no other debts, such as credit card debt, at greater rates of interest.
He rejected claims that the government was doing nothing to boost growth, saying the only way to deal with Britain's "debt crisis" was to pay off its debts.
But the appropriate response to this situation is to write-off much of this debt, not to pile on even more debts from bailout resources or to demand a Greek exit from the euro.
In abolishing the debt ceiling the U.S. would inform the world that it will never default on its debts and simultaneously could actually improve the prospects of seriously limiting future growth in its debt.
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Even Germany - with its debt-laden local government - cannot guarantee the debts of the rest of Europe.
The real problem with the Greek debt crisis is not that Greece cannot pay its debts, it is the potential impact of a default on other sovereign nations and banks in the Euro zone (and beyond).
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Seven of the clubs reduced their debts with Falkirk and Inverness operating with no debt.
Because the U.S. is a high-cost, high tax, high debt economy, competing against cheaper economies less burdened by debts and taxes.
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If the US government does not find a solution to the debt ceiling and budget issue, default on some government debts is one possibility.
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During the stressful 1970s and early 1980s Chrysler, Westinghouse, Occidental Petroleum and others reduced debt loads by doing precisely that--exchanging their debts for cash or equity.
Occidental Petroleum ( OXY - news - people ) and others reduced debt loads by doing precisely that--exchanging their debts for cash or equity.
Deflation is a deadly disease in a country where both government and private sector are up to their necks in debt, because it increases the real burden of those debts.
The French believe he is an ally of Francois Hollande who is proposing euro-bonds where eurozone debt is pooled, with richer nations standing behind the debts of the struggling countries.
Most would say those are positive trends, although the pace of debt repayment by households is pretty sluggish and our personal debts (at close to 100% of GDP) remain substantial (and a worrying burden) by historical standards.
The fund would then be a substantial firewall, with the ability to lend money to Italy, Greece and other countries at low interest rates, helping them cover their debts until the austerity measures being imposed bring their debt loads under control.
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What may have tipped it over the edge is the disclosure last week that Spanish regions, led by Valencia, will need loans from central governments so that they can repay their debts (some 15bn euros of Spanish regional government debt comes up for repayment in the second half of this year).
Debt deflation is an especially big risk in Germany, where corporate debts are dangerously large.
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As a percentage of output, Italy's debt is second only to Greece in the eurozone - whose huge debts have led to two bailouts.
Currency devaluation largely avoids dealing with the short-term negative consequences of debt deflation in favor of prolonging the period time that the bad debts remain embedded in the system.
When it came to dealing with the consequences of the debt, 64% of students said they planned to pay their debts and 21% said they expected someone else to pay it.
The promissory notes were debts issued by the Irish sovereign, hence they were sovereign debt.
Real debt burdens therefore rise, causing borrowers to cut spending to service their debts or to default.
The second part of the lender of last resort is that if government itself gets into debt repayment problems then you can simply print more money to pay the debts back.
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