Although there are novel proposals to use insurance policies and convertible debt as capital, the immediate priority should be simplicity.

尽管有人提出新颖的提议，将保险单和可转换债务作为资本，但当前的重点应该是简单性。

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Before the crisis the conventional wisdom had been that people would do whatever they could to stay in their houses, giving priority to mortgage payments over all other forms of debt.

危机前，传统智慧认为无论怎样人们都会竭尽所能保有自己的房子，按揭款的优先级将高于其他债务。

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Once design debt has been identified and logged, repayment via refactoring should certainly be made a priority.

一旦设计债得到识别和标记，通过重构进行偿付应该放在优先的位置。

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In the IMF's new view, giving private holders of government debt priority in bailouts may be a poor use for taxpayer funds both in the countries receiving the aid and in those providing it.

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If Congress imposes a hard budget constraint on itself by refusing to raise the debt ceiling and establishes Social Security and interest on the debt as priority must-pays out of revenues before any other programs may be funded, it would require total other, non-priority spending to be reduced not quite one-third on average during the next ten years.

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To make absolutely sure, I intend to introduce legislation that would require the Treasury to make interest payments on our debt its first priority in the event that the debt ceiling is not raised.

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