Falling prices also inflate the real burden of debt, causing bankruptcies and bank failures.
Deflation erodes profitability and increases the real burden of debt, and so makes defaults more likely.
Such passages were used effectively against him by the prosecutor, but the real burden of the trial lay elsewhere.
But if the main reason for lower rates is lower inflation, the real burden of debt will take longer to pay back.
The report says there is a lack of data on the condition, making it difficult to estimate the real burden of the disease.
Falling prices increase the real burden of debt, and real interest rates cannot be reduced to boost the economy, because interest rates cannot be negative.
Chris Leslie, the former Labour MP who heads the New Local Government Network (NLGN), says "council tax is a real burden and it's becoming really unfair and outdated".
Deflation is a deadly disease in a country where both government and private sector are up to their necks in debt, because it increases the real burden of those debts.
Initial interest payments may seem low in relation to income, but because inflation is also low it will not erode the real burden of debt as swiftly as it used to.
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Deflation pushes up the real burden of debt, while the value of assets linked to that debt, such as house prices, may have to fall even more sharply in nominal terms to return to a fair level.
If the Fed chooses to reduce the real burden of the debt via inflation, the purchasing power of money will fall along with the foreign exchange value of the dollar, and those who trusted in U.S. public debt will suffer.
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History shows that the real burden of government on the economy is its overall spending, not the manner in which its outlays are financed (although an economy is slightly less-burdened, for any given level of spending, by debt financing than by tax financing).
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The data only go back to 1955 but I am betting the real burden in 1990s was on par with the burden right after World War II, when the US government also ran a surplus on the back of high taxes and declining military expenditure.
The real debt burden was 10 times as high as it had been in the mid 1970s.
If the quality is higher, the whistleblower incentives will also increase the quantity of internal corporate investigations, imposing a real cost burden (legal, IT, etc.) for most companies that lack Fortune 50 resources.
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Not only will the financial impacts of the housing meltdown burden the real estate market for years to come but so too will the emotional impact.
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This provision in Code Sec. 1411 and the proposed regulations thereunder has catalyzed an abundance of reaction by taxpayers and tax professionals who claim this additional requirement is creates an unnecessary burden for real estate professionals.
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The fall in sterling will also blunt deflationary pressures that might otherwise exacerbate the credit crisis, since when prices start falling the burden of debt rises in real terms.
Any move towards setting up regional assemblies in England should be judged by three criteria: popular demand, no net addition to the burden of government and a real devolution of power.
Until now he has been hard pressed to garner a real deep pocketed partner to share the burden of the program at a price he found acceptable for the risks he took to get to this point.
This was done to alleviate the country's debt burden and to encourage investments in the real economy.
Investors flooded the bond market Wednesday, anxious for a safe haven, as new fears surfaced regarding the commercial real estate market, which could be the next economic burden weighing on financial markets.
Modeled after a similar provision in the successful Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law of the 1980s, this sequester puts real teeth in the CAP Act and ensures that the burden of government spending actually would be reduced.
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Even so, the court left open the possibility of further challenges if opponents uncovered real, substantial evidence that the law would severely or unfairly burden certain voters.
Moreover, Congress never could have raided a system of private accounts to bankroll spending that it knew would never be supported by taxpayers if it had to raise taxes in real time to finance (as opposed to implicitly shoveling this burden onto future generations after present members of Congress are long retired etc.).
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But in the real world, you know what would happen--the total tax burden would end up going up, a sort of tax equivalent of three-card monte.
The rise of institutions such as the ones mentioned above give credence to the fact that there is a need to lessen the burden on employers to train incoming employees and prepare graduates for real life work experiences.
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