It would do so on behalf of all Indonesian borrowers, who would share the interest burden.
Thanks to low interest rates, households' interest burden is a lower share of their income than it was then.
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The economy ministry also hopes to cut its interest burden by strong-arming pension funds (over sour looks from the big rating agencies) to swap short-dated government paper for long-term bonds.
And she says that strong cash flow generation points to further debt reduction and a reduced interest payment burden in 2012 and beyond.
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The thing about borrowing is that interest costs burden your business.
Interest rates are at record lows, so interest costs pose little burden even for heavily indebted companies.
To the extent that outstanding Treasury debt is purchased by the Fed, the burden of interest payments on the public debt is reduced almost proportionally.
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Since interest paid to the Fed, the Social Security system and other government pension funds is effectively rebated to the Treasury, taxpayers currently bear only the burden of interest on 60% of this debt.
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But what would happen if China in particular slowed, the fiscal stimulus ran out, and interest rates made the debt burden more expensive?
He understood that they were people of goodwill, and he could not bear to be impolite, but the benign interest of others was a burden.
Parallels with Latin America are quite inappropriate here: The debt of Russia and the other states has not yet reached the point where even repaying the interest becomes an intolerable financial burden.
Only government can subject all industries simultaneously to the effects of its macro policies, such as rising or falling interest rates, the general burden of taxation, the moral hazard inherent in the promise of bailouts, and the uncertainty and perverse incentives of open-ended regulatory programs.
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Finally, the Bank of Japan's decision to raise interest rates has meant that banks will probably have to sell shares to cover losses from borrowers, who may become unable to bear the burden of higher interest payments as well as to meet increased interest bills to depositors.
All of the money that is put on the line in support of U.S. exports will be repaid with interest, so it is no burden to taxpayers or the Treasury.
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However, analysts have argued that injecting cash into the markets may not be enough and that the central bank needs to cut interest rates to bring down the burden on businesses and consumers.
More importantly, that addressable space will expand for each as we eliminate the burden of organizational conflicts of interest.
Second, America and a few countries cannot be expected to bear the burden of the fiscal and interest rate stimulus alone.
And if interest rates remain high too, its debt burden will be a big concern.
"As a result, if interest rates need to be raised, the burden on South Korean's households will increase, " he adds.
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.
The central bank has also cut its interest rates twice since June, to ease the burden on consumers.
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Only lower interest rates can lift the centre's huge burden of internal debt.
Mr Serra likes to say that Brazil holds three negative world records: it has the highest interest rates in the world, the heaviest tax burden of any emerging country and one of the lowest rates of public investment.
Second, we include in the Budget 16 carefully targeted tax law changes that improve compliance while maintaining that important balance between the burden being imposed on taxpayers and our shared interest in collecting taxes owed.
Likewise, debt-fueled spending risks over-stimulating the economy in the short-term at the cost of future growth, not to mention that it incentivizes the government to keep interest rates low (as high rates worsen the debt burden).
"An ageing population, recent legislative changes, lower interest rates and low investment returns, an increased tax burden and the government's ongoing pensions reform programme are factors that affect all employees and employers, " said Professor Bill Wakeham, chairman of the employers' Pensions Forum .
At the workshop Andrew Lo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology presented a model of the American housing market, inspired by ABM approaches, which showed how a fateful conjunction of rising house prices, falling interest rates and easy access to refinancing created an awesome burden of debt.
"Amanda Burden brings a very personal touch because of her interest in design, " Mr. Angotti said.
The resulting tax burden is onerous and could be many times the actual interest received on loans purchased.
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