Sentences with phrase «debt overhang»

Instead, the persistent student debt overhang is costing the country hundreds of billions of dollars in economic activity per year.

Nearly half of those who think this is happening blame the ongoing debt overhang from the Great Recession.

Without debt overhangs, structural reforms to help business and free up labor markets will be most effective.

The crisis increased the costs of financial intermediation and left major debt overhangs.

Other worries highlighted by S&P included geopolitical tensions, asset price volatility, a Chinese debt overhang, cybersecurity threats, and increased populism and anti-globalisation sentiment around the world.

With household and government balance sheets still weighed down by a large debt overhang, demand for new loans is extremely weak despite near zero short and long term interest rates.

Intelligence gathered by The Finder indicates that staff of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) are demanding salary increment despite a myriad of challenges, including the huge fall in the price of raw cocoa beans on the world market and GH 10 billion debt overhang inherited by the new management.

The Minister for Finance, in collaboration with the Minister for Energy, is at an advanced stage of floating the $ 2.5 billion energy bond to retire the $ 2.4 billion debt overhang on the energy sector.

By making student debt dischargable in bankruptcy and tying student loan access to school performance metrics, Center for American Progress experts Joe Valenti and David Bergeron argue, Congress could both reduce the harmful effects of the current debt overhang and improve the future outlook of the student loan system.

Had Greece quickly written down its debt burden by two - thirds, it would have been able to shed its crushing debt overhang.

Following the crash of 2008 governments embarked on bailout and stimulus programs that were vaguely Keynesian but were poorly targeted and created an immense debt overhang that persists.

Keschl acknowledges that the consumer remains worried about debt overhang and less than robust job growth, but over the past five years, the industry has gotten used to operating in this new normal mode, he notes.

One of the difficulties facing the country in the near future is reinvigorating private investment, which has been hampered by domestic challenges, including the corporate debt overhang and regulatory and policy obstacles, as well as increasing U.S. interest rates, according to the World Bank.

If Congress wants to address the trillion - dollar student debt overhang that's stunting America's economic growth, it must get more ambitious about reforming rules about refinancing student loans and overhaul the systems borrowers use to manage and repay their loans, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress (CAP).

That frees up financial resources which can then be put to use elsewhere - for consumption, investment or for reducing the debt overhang.

For example, the miner has pretty much extracted itself from a disastrous foray into the oil business and materially trimmed the debt overhang left over from that, in hindsight, an ill - advised move.

Other explanations for what is happening have been proposed, notably Kenneth Rogoff's theory of a debt overhang, Robert Gordon [6]'s theory of supply - side headwinds, Ben Bernanke's theory of a savings glut [7], and Paul Krugman's theory of a liquidity trap.

We should also recognise the potential for positive interaction between the debt overhang and growth — a growing economy, as it is now, is more likely to be one in which debt imbalances are being wound back and balance sheets are being repaired.

Have been calling for wengers departure now for 5 years on grounds he could not take the club to the next level... Personally I feel the record in that time proves me right but ok some can throw in references to debt overhang or cup wins or a couple of genuine world class additions to the squad etc... However I hope this window stands as a real testament to the mans failings and all genuine supporters of the club get behind a call to remove him at the seasons end... Qed

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He could have tried a more modest solution of expediting bankruptcy processes, because the most pressing need for the economy is to turn bad debts into lesser equity stakes, so that the debt overhang can clear.

The real problem was the debt overhang, and you did nothing to to address that, not that you could, or should.

But it's not clear where Smurfit stands in this regard — there are certainly fresh threats to global growth, and debt overhang will restrain the developed markets for years to come — on the other hand, Smurfit's now a dominant player, emerging markets continue to perform well, and Western central banks continue to pump out a tsunami of liquidity to combat debt deflation.

With the the debt overhang and the looming pension crises, we are beginning to see that much American prosperity was a debt - fueled illusion.

My expectation is that these «solutions» will not do much to deal with the economic weakness induced by the debt overhang.

The lower leverage and debt overhang will not prevent a bubble from bursting, doesn't mean stock prices or home values can't slide and doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned that some markets may be over-valued.

The debt overhang those borrowers face doesn't only hurt them.

Ending the economic malaise means ending the debt overhang.

But we have a debt overhang in much of the developed world, so we have to be careful about balance sheets.

Debt overhang and ongoing deleveraging on the part of firms and households are the main culprits as well as...

Debt overhang and ongoing deleveraging on the part of firms and households are the main culprits as well as higher structural unemployment and the stultifying double entendre of more or less permanently high taxes and excessive regulation relative to our economic competitors.