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Risk: Western governments and banks will threaten to deny any new credits to Russia or other CIS member states if the latter insist on substantial debt rescheduling or forgiveness.
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In general, Brazil's family entrepreneurs avoid debt and insist on total control in any venture.
ECONOMIST: The iron chancellor
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Consider, first, how some debt analysts insist that the U.S. could prioritize the use of incoming tax revenues, and pay interest on the national debt first.
FORBES: Debt-Ceiling Gimmickry Is Unbecoming A Rational Government
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It seems like a key issue is this matter of a trigger -- how do you make sure that Congress actually takes up deficit reduction without that enforcement mechanism being the debt limit, as Republicans insist it must.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing
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On the specific issue of the debt ceiling, the obvious thing Obama could have done differently was to insist that it be included as part of the lame duck deal last year.
FORBES: Is It Time to Give Obama Some Credit?
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Contrary to the scare tactics of big-government acolytes who insist the sky will fall if the federal government cannot add more to the national debt, there is absolutely no reason to default on the debt if the debt limit is not raised.
FORBES: Enough Is Enough On Raising The Federal Debt Limit
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But longtime associates insist that he never played the race card, unlike other pribumi tycoons who lobbied for government favors and debt forgiveness on account of their ethnicity.
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We accept the fact that some members of Congress insist that we get a deficit reduction deal in tandem with, if you will, the vote to raise the debt ceiling.
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