After all, people starting university now will leave with tens of thousands of pounds of debt to repay, when earlier generations were paid to go to college.
Pfizer now has a mountain of debt to repay.
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Applying the same logic to the U.S. government, debt will continue to grow as long as the government can raise more cash by issuing debt than it costs to repay maturing debt and pay interest costs.
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The company is also negotiating with other potential investors about an alternative piece of junior debt financing that would repay Borders's existing junior debt, this person said.
Increased saving is not only being used to repay debt but also to rebuild 401(k)s.
SOEs made no money and needed any cash they generated to restructure themselves and repay debt.
High interest rates and a drying up of credit in turn mean more companies are unable to repay debt.
Last summer, the group sold shares on the New York Stock Exchange, and used some of the proceeds to repay debt.
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CenturyLink also said it plans to use a portion of free cash flow generated in 2013 and 2014 to repay debt.
The desire to repay debt is certainly important, but extending credit lines we can afford to pay back is important too.
The public listings were intended to help repay debt used to buy the horses, as well as pay for training and upkeep.
Courts in California and other states are allowing suits over the sin of helping a company pile on debt it cannot repay.
Now governments almost never do repay debt, they just borrow some more and use the new money to pay off the old.
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He also said the bank isn't "interested" in Kingfisher's revival plan any more as it has given time to the airline to repay debt.
Verizon, able to dictate the dividend terms because of its majority stake, two weeks ago said it might use cash this year to repay debt.
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But the ability to repay debt depends not only on the level of interest rates, but also, crucially, on the rate of growth in future incomes.
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To the extent that scarce hard currency resources must be outlayed to repay debt obligations, such funds are unavailable for urgently needed investment and other stimuli to economic growth.
There is some truth in this, but another reason why the policy has failed to boost spending is that overindebted households and firms prefer to save and repay debt.
"If you're a banker and you're looking at the ability to repay debt at the corporate level, there is virtually no operating cash flow, " says a Hong Kong securities analyst.
Credit card loans outstanding fell 10% last year and promise to fall further as consumers repay debt, lending standards tighten and the new federal law cuts the profitability of credit card lending.
The bond route also is unlikely to win favor, as companies need to repay debt when the bonds expire, and returns for investors don't mirror the heady IPO gains of the past.
The first is that in many cases they were taken out by investors who need steady cash flows to repay debt, or were financed using instruments such as CMBS that also require steady income streams.
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The bottom line is that in the early 2000s households reported spending very little of the money they borrowed against their homes on current consumption and instead used the money to repay debt and make residential and other household investments.
The ongoing sovereign debt issues with Greece reignited when comments from the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund suggested that without further austerity measures and sale of assets by Greece, the ability of Greece to be able to repay debt soon coming due comes into question.
Instead of paying back the excesses of the credit boom in terms of magnitude (a more severe economic contraction that clears the system), we have opted to repay debt in the duration of our economic malaise, thereby opting to stunt the natural course of deleveraging by borrowing more at the sovereign level and printing money.
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Rather, that as that old debt matures and has to be repaid, then they have to borrow more to repay the old debt.
More often than not, she says, that group can compel him to repay the debt.
Watch for that once today's scramble for dollars to repay corporate debt in emerging markets subsides.
In the past, many poor nations borrowed money, and they couldn't repay the debt.
There is simply no level of debt we could not repay with a keystroke.
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