Market confidence in Italy collapsed during 2011 because of its very high debt burden, and only began to recover after Mr Berlusconi resigned as prime minister and Mr Monti took over.
At the same time, the IMF is calling on the euro zone to take losses on its rescue funding to Greece to cut Greece's still-high debt burden while maintaining the convention that it is a preferred creditor and therefore exempt from any such exercise.
Moody's said "subdued" growth prospects and a "high and rising debt burden" were weighing on the British economy.
Soon it will be colleges day of reckoning as they have to balance the reality of high costs, debt burden and lower degree value.
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And if interest rates remain high too, its debt burden will be a big concern.
Likewise, debt-fueled spending risks over-stimulating the economy in the short-term at the cost of future growth, not to mention that it incentivizes the government to keep interest rates low (as high rates worsen the debt burden).
They also insisted that Cyprus couldn't receive more loans because that would make its debt burden unsustainably high.
The combination of slow economic growth, a rising debt-to-GDP ratio and a very high ratio of debt to exports make the debt burden unsustainable.
The higher education bubble has been inflating for decades, propagating the myth that heavy student debt burden is justified by high paying jobs.
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The real debt burden was 10 times as high as it had been in the mid 1970s.
With Brazil's tax burden and public debt already too high, the only sensible ways to fill the holes in its social safety net are economic growth (which now seems to be resuming) and a redistribution of existing spending towards those who most need it.
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But with high inflation eating into stagnant wages, the burden of debt keeps growing.
That might leave others--in particular, high-growth and high-tech companies, who can ill afford debt--to shoulder the burden of corporate taxation.
Who among us is willing to tolerate high unemployment, anemic wage growth, growing income inequality, and to boot, a debt burden that is on track to equal the total output of the U.S. economy by the end of this decade?
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These people see the federal budget deficit, the huge debt burden and the risk of a stagflation-type environment of low growth and high inflation, and cannot understand how investors could be piling into bonds.
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