These financial intermediaries have been complaining mightily about the increased cost of servicing retirement accounts.
So the immediate cost of servicing a standard repayment loan has become much more bearable.
This is a modest outlay by comparison with the past cost of servicing a loan.
They decided to allocate 70% of the cost of servicing their customers of the more profitable brand.
The resulting higher interest rates would elevate the cost of servicing the federal debt, further aggravating the deficit.
In the meantime, the annual cost of servicing this debt is pretty low.
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But the cost of servicing it has been low, partly because of the tough restructuring Mr Kirchner imposed on bondholders.
About half of mortgage borrowers have variable-rate loans and are therefore generally benefiting from the reduced cost of servicing their debt.
"This could ultimately undermine the dollar, push up inflation even more and raise the cost of servicing debt for the US authorities, " our business editor explained.
For one, if the ECB were to give the euro a gold definition, the cost of servicing euro-denominated debt for Greece and Ireland would decline.
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As the debt burden rises, so too does the cost of servicing the debt increase as a share of the growth the economy is capable of generating.
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The fees are particularly essential for credit unions: far smaller than banks, they cannot take advantage of economies of scale to reduce the cost of servicing their customers.
The argument for not investing in a 401(k) stems from the possibility that the cost for servicing high-interest debt may outweigh the potential performance on retirement plan assets.
This has pushed up the cost of servicing the country's debt, which itself has risen to almost 60% of GDP, from 52.5% a year ago, according to the central bank.
Mr Remington said the trust was in administration because it was "drowning in a sea of Private Finance Initiative debt fuelled by the high cost of servicing repayments to private companies".
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And although interest rates and house prices have risen, the cost of servicing a mortgage, the biggest charge on most household budgets, accounts for a smaller share of income than the historical average.
But it won't work, says Fair, because the falling dollar eventually will increase inflation (Saudi Arabia will demand more dollars for its oil) and drive up interest rates and therefore the cost of servicing the debt.
As I discussed on the Today programme this morning, the biggest positives are that Greece, Portugal and Ireland will get a significant cut in the cost of servicing their debts, and the powers of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) have been extended.
If the Fed instead had refused to buy federal debt, interest rates, and therefore the annual cost of servicing the gargantuan federal debt, probably would have soared, thereby making it much more difficult politically for Congress and the White House to continue adding over a trillion dollars of debt per year.
And under any set of circumstances, even if they do everything right, if we have an increase in interest rates to more normal levels, the savings that we might get by dealing with these problems is going to get eaten up by their at the cost of servicing the debt.
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However the report said that increased competition had brought down the cost of fixed line telephone costs while lower servicing charges and tyre costs had reduced the cost of car upkeep.
That will now have to rise to around 3.3%, merely to compensate for the extra cost of debt servicing.
If they cannot capture value by charging more for their product than the cost of making, delivering, and servicing it, then the business will ultimately lose its independence.
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This reduces cost associated with shipping, warehouse storing, installing and servicing large-screen displays.
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He has been trying since 2007 to change foreign oil contracts from production-sharing agreements, under which the foreign producers can have partial ownership of the fields they operate, to servicing contracts, under which the producers would have to pay a production fee and then get reimbursed for the cost of their investment.
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