There are a lot more stresses on your money, with many people in debt with big mortgages and excessive childcare costs.
They may be reading too much into their mandate, but they think that going back, that accepting a hike in debt with nothing in return, would be betraying their voters.
Robert Polin told the BBC that between 2000 and 2010, the average rate of growth in countries with debt above 90% of GDP had actually been higher than it had been in countries with lower debt to GDP ratios.
The problem now grosso modo is that the growth is in the countries with little debt and the debt is in the countries with little growth.
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Mr Kuroda and Mr Iwata have said they are in favour of buying government debt with longer maturities in order to achieve the central bank's new inflation target of 2%.
After all, it would still be saddled with a stake in a debt-laden firm with diminishing prospects.
Concerns over the debt ceiling debate in the U.S., along with sovereign debt woes in Europe sending peripheral debt to nearly unsustainable levels, have put pressure on risk assets across the board and sent investors fleeing for safe-haven assets like gold and the Swiss franc.
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Leveraged private partnership that invests in debt of companies with significant financial or business problems, hoping to capitalize on potential turnarounds.
Will investors have to chip in with debt restructuring or even bond defaults?
In other words, the company retained no earnings and probably had to finance its dividend payment in part with debt or equity.
Equity securities such as warrants, preferred stock, common stock and other equity interests, will principally be made in conjunction with debt investments.
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In terms of the major negotiated tenets of the compact, Germany bargained for fiscal integration and conceded in regards to private creditors being involved in debt reduction along with their desire for a new treaty.
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DesignerWare is also prohibited from providing others with the means to commit illegal acts, and the seven rent-to-own stores will be prohibited from using any improperly gathered information from consumers in connection with debt collection.
Boehner continued to make some questionable claims when suggesting there was bi-partisan support among the leadership in the Senate for his latest bill that would call for a small increase in the debt ceiling now with the issue to be addressed again in six months.
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Debt on student loans has grown significantly in the past few years, with many graduates having debt in the tens of thousands of dollars and some having debt in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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It buys only minority stakes in companies with very little debt, a practice common in emerging markets.
In fact, 2 out of 3 college students graduated with debt in 2008 as compared to less than half in 1993, reports FinAid.org.
On the grading scale, BofA did slightly better, with Kramer noting the bank is in a "difficult situation" with troubled assets in collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and some real estate from Merrill Lynch.
Since September, the average debt multiple through second-lien is a hefty 5.4x, versus 5.1x earlier in the year, with little debt cushion further down in the capital structure.
The difference between 2000 and now, he said, is that current deals are being paid for in cash or funded with debt, as opposed to transactions using overvalued stock in profitless New Economy companies.
And as the FT points out this morning, for the first time ever UK pension funds now hold more bonds than equities: the Pensions Regulator shows that UK funds hold 43% of their assets in gilts and fixed-interest debt compared with just under 39% in equities.
The Financial sector was eschewed from that safe-haven premium as investors viewed the looming debt crisis in Europe with extreme unease.
Even some senior Republicans are only lukewarm supporters at best, and GOP leaders shunned the measure in two prior debt showdowns with Obama.
GPs and other clinicians taking responsibility for North Yorkshire's NHS budget are set to be the only such group in England saddled with debt.
Blue-Light Special in Japan With huge debt from fat times gone sour, some of Japan's famous department stores are expected to be bought by bargain-hunting U.S. investors.
And we did not help here in Washington with the debt ceiling debacle that took place, a bit of game-playing that was completely unnecessary, completely unprecedented in terms of how we dealt with our responsibilities here in Washington.
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"The Soviet Union is already in a piecemeal debt rescheduling with a series of 'quiet' Western government 'refinancings' likely this year -- all in the interest of avoiding a more formal and debilitating Paris Club process, " Center Board member Robinson said.
Expanding rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s with debt-financed plants, Stronach started to dabble in outside ventures.
In fact there are many countries with worse debt burdens, both in absolute terms and relative to the size of the economy.
She left the town saddled with millions of dollars in debt from the building of a new sports complex, and with legal fees, because she had failed to secure title to the land on which the complex was built.
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