As important, Washington is confronting the issue of debt before it absolutely has to.
When it comes to the issue of debt and sovereignty there is most definitely a distinction between internally and externally owned debt.
As well as being highly geared, with its latest issue of debt rated by credit agencies as low as junk, Warner Music has accounting problems inherited from its former management.
Vast amounts of energy and ingenuity are spent on the pseudo issue of the debt ceiling, while not dealing with the root cause of the problem, namely, how to grow the economy.
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Setting aside the issue of the debt ceiling, there is a lot at stake.
Everybody acknowledged that the issue of our debt and our deficit is something that needs to be tackled now.
It would have been great if we were able to also settle this issue of the debt ceiling at that time.
On the issue of government debt, Shiller proposes indexing it to GDP.
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We have the issue of the debt ceiling coming back on the agenda soon, a crisis that brought he legislature to paralysis last summer.
The White House was conducting an online chat it labelled "Office Hours" in an effort to connect to web users about the often dry issue of the debt and budget negotiations.
"The auction came in a very difficult market environment, with the issue of US debt ceiling still unresolved", and speculation about the future of Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti, analysts at Unicredit said.
The combination of low Treasury yields and nugatory credit spreads provides an irresistible opportunity for emerging countries to issue lots of cheap debt.
The IRS audited Tax Year 1, including the issue of the bad debt loss.
Other groups have also indicated that business investment, including employment, is impacted by the issue of the national debt.
August 2011 was a tumultuous month for the market, as the euro zone crisis raged and congress wrangled with the issue of raising the debt ceiling.
In the real world a CEO would be a world-class dunce not to issue a dollar of debt in order to snatch ten dollars' worth of assets.
However, with nominal growth slowing, the global population aging and developed economy governments reluctant to issue large amounts of debt this dynamic will affect larger and more traditionally stable asset markets.
And while all of the big emerging markets, the so-called BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China, are investment grade, as are many of their companies that issue bonds, none of their debt is as safe as US Treasury bonds.
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That can be done in two ways: by narrowing the scope of deposit insurance and by requiring banks to issue specific kinds of credibly uninsured debt.
Last week the Emerald Isle had a successful syndication, reopening an older issue of five-year debt.
Internationally, China, the US, Japan, and Europe have to deal with the issue of unprecedented levels of debt.
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Oblige banks to issue a certain amount of debt (say 2% of their assets) that is junior to deposits.
The risk of a debt default over the combustible issue of the Medicare deficit hangs over the course of the stock market.
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But the bond-syndication arms of those same banks need hedge funds to buy the debt they issue on behalf of their corporate clients.
Congress then passed the debt-limit law in 1917 to facilitate debt by ending the cumbersome practice of voting on each debt issue and rollover.
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The lender or business owed the debt will sometimes issue a form 1099-C, Cancellation of Debt, to the taxpayer for the amount which was forgiven.
Thus, the alarming situation of new debt issue exceeding tax collections continues for a second year.
Where I think we have a great opportunity to work together is on the issue of our long-term debt.
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Another area where I hope we can find some agreement is on the issue of getting our deficits and debt under control.
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The central issue of our time is the debt crisis.
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