What appears to be equity on the balance-sheet of one set of government-controlled entities is really just debt on another.
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Its ratio of corporate debt to GDP was 49%, the ratio of household debt to GDP was just 31% and financial sector debt was just 14% of GDP.
Credit scores treat student loan debt just like any other installment debt (and make no distinction between federal and private loans).
Analysts pointed out that gold also has a number of other factors underpinning it beyond just the debt-ceiling impasse, such as European debt problems and inflation in emerging markets.
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Because, as I have discussed many times before, this is not just a debt crisis for the so-called 'periphery' economies. (I think we are supposed to forget, in these conversations, that the EU came of age with the Treaty of Rome.) It is also a crisis of competitiveness.
When you really look deeply into the numbers, what you see is that a lot of the reason that we have less debt is because people went into bankruptcy and just wiped out the debt.
What is the degree businesses and consumers are dependent on debt just to get by.
If Congress would just abolish the debt ceiling entirely, we could sail off to Greece.
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True, they were better just before the debt crisis of the early 1980s hit home.
IMF's deputy managing director, proposed just such a debt restructuring mechanism, to be administered by the Fund.
We can't stand by when millions of young people are already saddled with debt just as you're starting off.
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By extension, just as every debt is a liability for the borrower, it is an asset for the creditor.
In the short-term, people are also going to pay for companies that don't just pare their debt but also restructure.
The key here is realizing that if you just role over debt then the interest rate is the growth rate of the debt.
Bucksbaum, who learned the real estate business from his father and uncle, has been criticized for using high debt just as they used to.
As we already know, the US just raised the debt ceiling so it can continue to borrow to run the nation and service its debt.
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He worries about the compromises that come with giving away ownership and the risks involved when companies incur a lot of debt just to grow.
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Was all the concern over Greek debt just a temporary panic?
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According to a report by Citigroup, the nineteen most exposed European banks would lose 6.6 billion euros from marking to market just their Greek debt holdings.
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Mr. BEHRAVESH: Our best guess is about half of this will be spent, half of it will be saved, or maybe used to just write down debt.
The solution is the absolute and complete economic collapse of the European Union, allowing Europe to rebuild, not just pile bad debt on top of bad debt.
Worse, it is no longer just collateralised-debt obligations and other complex securitised products that are hurting the world's largest bank (by assets if no longer by market value).
Moreover, the Republicans started the fight, whereas the Democrats were willing to just raise the debt ceiling routinely, as in the past, and to get on with things.
But that money should not fall squarely on the heads of middle class kids who are forced to take out tens of thousands in debt just to attend school.
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"The first thing he has to do is pay interest on his debt just to stand still, which means diverting profit which would otherwise have been reinvested in the club, " said Flitcroft.
This latest Greek debt restructuring episode is just like the entire EU sovereign debt crisis it drags on as more meetings are held, and then drags on some more as still more meetings are held.
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The debt just builds and builds and builds.
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This move bears a striking resemblance to one Icahn made in November of last year, when it was reported that he bought MGM bonds just after the debt-beleagured movie company put itself up for sale.
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