In one corner, the powerful negative forces of debt deleveraging will continue to pressure the economy, employment, and income growth in a potentially negative way.
The return on additional inputs of debt have turned negative, while trillions in unpaid debt and commitments comes due.
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Currency devaluation largely avoids dealing with the short-term negative consequences of debt deflation in favor of prolonging the period time that the bad debts remain embedded in the system.
Meanwhile, Fitch has lowered its outlook on Egyptian sovereign debt to negative from stable .
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For example, the high-debt, negative-growth year of 1951 in New Zealand was key to the original paper's finding.
Treasurys are the only sure-fire safe asset around, even though real yields on shorter-dated U.S. debt are negative.
Declining cash reserves, mounting debt and negative cash flows from operations (for the past two quarters) have dampened investor confidence in the company.
Last year, credit rating agencies were arguing for either a downgrade or a negative outlook on India debt, citing policy paralysis in New Delhi.
When the agency lowers the outlook on the long-term debt to negative, is it your view that -- what is your view about the significance of that?
Several money-market funds that held Lehman debt reported negative returns, sparking a flight of cash to the safety of Treasury bills that briefly pushed their yields close to zero.
Events contributing to the negative sentiment included the debt ceiling debate, weak economic data such as second-quarter GDP and the July ISM manufacturing survey, and a eight-day losing streak for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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As of now, there have not been many negative consequences associated with high debt.
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To make matters worse, the major bond rating agencies downgraded their U.S. treasury debt outlook to negative.
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One reason it might matter to Americans is that there seems to be a negative correlation between deficits, debt and job creation.
The Financial Times is reporting that U.S. bond dealers and institutional investors have asked the U.S. Treasury to allow debt sales at negative rates of interest.
Indeed, if the existence of the Fed is seen as a dollar negative, why then would debt that pays out dollars be easier to issue and sell?
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"We do think it is clearly negative for holders of commercial debt, that is our view, that it will weigh on countries' capacity to serve their commercial debt, " he said.
They further suggest that the negative growth rate effect of high debt may start from levels of around 70-80% of GDP.
The crisis was caused by funding its rapid expansion with debt followed by the negative effects of the recession on consumer spending.
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As our study indicates, each recession in the past 42 years was preceded by a period of negative growth in real gross total debt.
If your net worth is negative and you owe more in debt than you own, how far back will this put your debt-reduction progress?
Internal consumption of its debt will likely turn negative very soon.
It has placed Softbank's debt on CreditWatch with negative implications.
Every small business owner knows that the laws of finance will allow negative cash to be augmented with debt as a temporary means to an end, but not as a long-term way of life.
Europe's debt issues are having a negative impact on dollar-denominated equity returns.
Also, government debt itself is a currency negative on the margin owing to market fear that the government might devalue its way out of it.
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We believe the current prices reflect the overwhelming negative sentiment among investors following the deteriorating debt situation in Europe and the downgrade in the U.S. credit rating.
The push for austerity adds to concerns that the rescue from record government debt loads may be as negative for the economies of Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Ireland, and therefore the fragile overall European economy, as actual defaults on the debts might have been.
By Monday, the grand bargain was dead, House Republicans and Senate Democrats were scrambling to put together rival bills, and all the available options for resolving the debt ceiling increase would have negative impacts directly for the US economy, and indirectly on the global economy.
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Maybe when the news flow and actual policy decisions regarding the U.S. and European debt crises look more positive than negative.
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