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...Chapter 11 of the US bankruptcy code is a case in point. “Yet there is no comparable mechanism for the debts of sovereigns,” they continue....
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...Creditors have been hoping that a forthcoming auction of shares in Citgo, a PDVSA-owned refiner in the US, will help pay off some of the oil company’s defaulted debt....
...In the three decades after the war, the growth rate of national output also exceeded the interest rate on government debt for most of the time. Result: phenomenal debt shrinkage....
...Such activity is a sign that a new era of high borrowing costs is starting to bite in corporate America, whose overall borrowings now total $13tn according to Federal Reserve data....
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...“I think the most educated women in America have heard of egg-freezing.”...
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...The debt swap was a big step forward in Caputo’s overarching strategy, said Salvador Vitelli, head of research at the Romano Group consultancy....
...Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, condemned the budget as “a road map to accelerate America’s decline”....
...The poorest nation in the Americas, Haiti has suffered worsening violence and poverty since the assassination in 2021 of president Jovenel Moïse....
...As higher borrowing costs drove their debts deeper into distress, they had no choice but to change....
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...But Milei fell far short of a majority in October’s congressional election and faces 143 per cent a year inflation, crushing levels of domestic and foreign debt and an empty treasury....
...The mechanics of the NAIC’s rule change (as described by Barclays, Bank of America, regulators, industry groups and various other sources) are . . . not especially simple....
...For example, this is why Paul Volcker (then at the Treasury) made “regular and predictable” the cornerstone of America’s bond issuance strategy when US deficits started to swell in the 1970s....
...The sector now has $230bn of debt outstanding, representing between 8 and 9 per cent of the total US municipal bond market....
...WisdomTree had always employed specialists who covered asset classes and products, including fixed income, equities and commodities, as well as models, said Joe Grogan, head of distribution for the Americas...
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