debt burdens

Private-debt burdens have begun to drop but across the rich world that has been offset by an increase in public burdens (see charts).

"Our intent is to get a clear agreement on the principles needed to achieve real progress on reducing deficits and debt burdens, " he said.

"We are not ready to carry other countries' debt burdens in a new way, " Ms. Kiviniemi said.

Budget cuts, tuition hikes, and debt burdens are undermining the best path to upward mobility that this country ever built.

But the downturn put an end to those plans, leaving the company with one of the sector's heaviest debt burdens.

No matter how bad the economic problems became, progressive-era politicians did not impose huge debt burdens on their children.

Real debt burdens therefore rise, causing borrowers to cut spending to service their debts or to default.

Continuing joblessness, years of weak investment and higher public-debt burdens, in turn, will dent economies' underlying potential.

Current debt burdens feel heavier than they did previously, and that's going to continue to impact household consumption and investment.

A key problem has not been solved: how will the most indebted European nations reduce their debt burdens without faster economic growth?

Dare governments think the unthinkable about changing central bank mandates, to help ease debt burdens?

Unfortunately, post-financial crisis growth is likely to continue to be hampered by huge debt burdens.

Countries already laboring under high debt burdens and with less room to increase spending are less attractive.

With debt burdens lifted, it was hoped that banks and other financial institutions would be strengthened, and the credit crunch would ease.

Prolonged stagnation worsens public debt burdens and undermines creditworthiness as effectively as fiscal incontinence.

Part-time students will be able to earn some money to ease their burgeoning debt burdens when not at their books.

In places where households had heavier debt burdens at the start of the recession, subsequent car sales were weaker.

Peripheral countries would benefit disproportionately, thereby helping to ease overall debt burdens.

Some economists have argued for moderate inflation as a deliberate policy, as a way to encourage lending and reduce private debt burdens.

That makes investors fear that the only way to relieve oppressive debt burdens is through default.

It has been accompanied by a rise in debt burdens that will be a deadweight on economies for many years.

Debt burdens are high today mostly because so much was borrowed in the recent past.

Debt burdens may turn out to be higher.

Markets have since calmed down a little and rightly so, according to this chart, which ranks countries by their debt burdens.

Higher inflation could help bring down real home prices while allowing nominal home prices to stabilise, and reduce real debt burdens.

Countries have varying underlying debt burdens and face differing pressures from ageing populations.

Relatively short-term problems relating to the build-up of unsustainable debt burdens have caused the difficulties.

Rich economies where public debt burdens are soaring urgently need bold and credible plans for medium-term deficit-reduction.

Heavy public-debt burdens and chronic deficits were a feature in Greece and Italy long before the current crisis.

More importantly, households are groaning under unprecedented debt burdens.

The highly indebted countries you keep hearing about, like Greece and Ireland, have much smaller debt burdens than Japan.

But forced austerity has triggered big drops in national outputs, so the debt burdens become even more unsupportable.

This newspaper has argued that Greece, Ireland and Portugal need their debt burdens cut sooner rather than later.

Such short-term, temporary spending does not add to medium- or long-term debt burdens.

You can do that by raising their income so they can meet their debt burdens. Or you can do something about the size of that debt.

Countries have reduced their external debt burdens and improved their external debt profiles.

The central government will step in, helping the banks and their borrowers to shoulder their debt burdens.

Recapitalising banks made sense during the banking crisis of 2008 when governments had debt burdens significantly lower than they are today.

Growth is substantially lower than it is during "normal" recoveries as households and firms reduce their debt burdens.

Probably not for Ireland and Portugal, which for different reasons also have heavy debt burdens.

Deflation drives up real debt burdens, further sapping consumer spending.

Without growth, it is likely to be impossible to ease debt burdens.

Alternatively, governments have a number of ways to reduce their debt burdens at the expense of their lenders.

And these debt burdens represent only the tip of the iceberg.

Lower growth makes it harder for heavily indebted economies to escape their debt burdens.

Fifth, the socialization of private losses and debt implies a sharp rise in public debt burdens.

The BIS reckons debt burdens and falling home values will again combine to push down GDP growth.

Many other rich countries have big debt burdens and are facing similar problems.

The repayment of loans, lowering debt burdens, sets the stage for more spending.

Weaker countries' debt burdens will need to be eased.

And it would help reduce the private and public debt burdens that weigh on the rich world's economies.

But many other industrialized nations also have large debt burdens.

In both cases, large debt burdens mean sluggish growth after a stock market crash.

But as their debt burdens rise, the world's big rich economies would do well to focus most on efficiency.

Once big debt burdens appear they are frustratingly hard to dispatch.

The more wages and prices fall, the bigger debt burdens become in real terms.

Within the rich world, countries such as Italy, with ageing populations and high debt burdens, have less room.

Done well, a big debt buy-back can pocket market discounts and reduce debt burdens.

You wish somebody could explain that one to you before you pass on more debt burdens to your grandchildren.

But there is growing concern about the risks related to western economies debt burdens.

Debt burdens shot up because of deflation and shrinking output; nominal GDP fell by 46% between 1929 and 1933.

Helped by government bail-outs and with debt burdens lightened by bankruptcy, Chrysler and GM are back on their feet;

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Debt burdens shot up because of deflation and shrinking output;