The move allowed Argentina to reduce its debt-burden and avoid paying two thirds of its debt.
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And many families also keep a sizable amount of money in their savings account or continue to put money into their 401(k)s, while still carrying thousands of dollars in credit-card debt--even though dipping into savings and paying off their credit-card bills would guarantee them an immediate return on investment of 15% or 18%.
Newly issued five-year B-rated corporate debt is paying around 7.5%, with defaults averaging 3.4% over the past nine decades.
Bain loyalists also reject the charge that the firm has made money by slashing employment and paying itself debt-fueled dividends.
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Then it begged the U.S. for funds to pay off speculators who had bought high-interest- paying Mexican debt on the assumption that the peso would stay steady against the greenback.
While interest in a Mosaic solar investment will be taxable, the interest saved from paying of a car loan or credit card debt is saved from after-tax money, and so is essentially tax free, which makes paying down debt at interest rates of 4% more more clearly more attractive than the 4.5% on offer from Mosaic.
Second, in a sense the pre-coup Soviet Union already had defaulted on its past debt obligations by simply not paying for its day-to-day bills with Western suppliers.
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Two years later she began paying debt with central-bank reserves.
Financial planners say almost every client they see between 50 and 55 is desperately trying to catch up from a free-spending lifestyle that has left them paying off debt while finding a way to save for the education of their still-young children.
Employment would certainly be helped, and demand would appear for housing and at least paying-off credit debt.
However, now that everyone has finally come around to the fact that these conclusions were off-base and that consumers charged-off on their debt instead of paying it down, the picture is quite different.
In Germany yields have turned negative a few times for two-year debt, meaning investors are literally paying the government to borrow their money.
One is, is paying interest owed to the debt-holder the top priority to the government no matter the U.S. can raise the debt ceiling?
Remember, Spain and Italy are only paying those rates on new debt - and they don't pay it at all unless they have to raise money from the markets at the time when the yields have spiked.
The year was defined by fits and starts related to Europe's sovereign-debt crisis and global economic growth concerns, prompting investors to flock to defensive and dividend-paying stocks.
On one side are representatives of the municipal bond community, who fret about being second in line behind unionized employees when states have to choose between paying debt interest or their ballooning retirement-benefit bills.
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Neither has a clear path towards paying down the still-growing sovereign debt accumulated since then.
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Conrad, speaking to reporters Monday, said one-third of the non-Social Security, non-Medicare surplus should go for taxes, one-third for new spending, and one-third for paying down the publicly held debt.
Tilton operates through structured financial vehicles, picking up the distressed debt of dozens of companies, paying an average of 50 cents on the dollar and rebundling them into so-called collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).
That means Volvo had the most-creditworthy customers, with the least debt and best record of paying their bills.
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Strikingly, the financial conglomerate is paying slightly higher interest on its five-year debt than Lehman or Bear Stearns.
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The allure for issuers, including hundreds of municipal bodies, is lower interest rates than typical long-term bonds, and the ease of paying down debt if they build up a surplus, by simply taking part in the auction themselves.
The problem even goes 30 years back to Montreal, which despite turning an operating profit on the 1976 Summer Games is just now paying off the last of its debt on Olympic Stadium - two years after the stadium's baseball occupants, the Expos, split for Washington, D.
Short-term gigs can help you meet specific goals like paying down debt or creating an emergency fund.
Her support at home, however, is hinged on her ability to convince voters they are not paying too much for the mistakes of their neighbors, like debt-heavy Greece and Italy.
If they had been doing what good Keynesian policy demanded of them then, paying down the debt, running a budget surplus instead of the 3-4% deficit they were running, then we could be good Keynesians now and could borrow our way out of the current slump and do some fiscal stimulus.
At one point, demand for two-year German debt was so high that yields turned negative, meaning investors were effectively paying to park their money in German bonds.
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The greater the spread between the high-interest debt and the rate of return on investment, the greater the financial advantage for paying off the debt first.
But now Europe's other big phone firms have regained lost ground, paying down much of their debt and piling up cash earned from their vast fixed-line businesses.
But, unlike a corporation, which garners the resources to retire that debt by satisfying customers, every dollar the government is spending now will be extracted from tax-paying businesses and workers when the loans come due.
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