Sentences with phrase «overall debt levels»

The recession should have gone longer, and reduced overall debt levels.

My view is that we will only get out of this mess as overall debt levels are reduced to around 1.5 x GDP, and ordinary lending to high quality borrowers begins again.

However, while overall debt levels increased sharply last year, it was actually slower than the increase recorded in nominal GDP, seeing the global debt - to - GDP ratio fall to 318 %.

Economists when the economics profession proved incapable of forecasting the recent crisis, when all anyone had to do was look at overall debt levels relative to GDP to see that we had surpassed the levels of the Great Depression?

Yes it is partly that, but the poor don't benefit from instability, and instability flows from high overall debt levels, which stem from easy money.

In addition, the median overall debt level for that age group neared $ 25,000 in 2012, up from less than $ 15,000 in 1998.

Translating helpful developments into more substantive progress on inflation still seems a difficult task in the near term, and in terms of investment potential, we remain skeptical about Japan's fundamentals, given its elevated overall debt levels.

«Households with relatively high incomes, couples with children, and people living in growing regions tend to cause overall debt levels to rise,» says Roger Sauvé, a demographer at People Patterns Consulting.

Because overall debt levels create depressions, I sometimes wonder that the supposed scholar Bernanke, and the toady Greenspan did not consider that they were setting up the seeds of destruction.

Those factors have negative impacts, but depressions occur when overall debt levels get too high, with layers of debt upon debt, allowing for cascades of failure to happen when the private enterprise system can borrow no more, and can not service the debt.

The numbers clearly show that it correlates with all other sorts of other measures of financial health, like overall debt levels, credit scores and credit limits

There will come a time to own banks, but I think we have to go through one or two more macro-shocks before overall debt levels are reconciled.

Taking on debt to buy a house was a wonderful strategy until overall debt levels to finance housing got to high, but at that time, the momentum effect of rising house prices was sucking people into buying houses, because they thought it was easy money.

Despite being concerned about overall debt levels of Canadians, they believe that they personally have acted responsibly, CAAMP says.

Our government is rhyming with what it did during the Great Depression; they aren't finding ways to reduce overall debt levels.

Higher overall debt levels, however, remain a concern, and a change for the worse in any of these economic conditions will lead to increased loan default and, ultimately, higher insolvency rates.

It's now a truism that no country has ever escaped a debt crisis after such a steep and rapid rise in its overall debt level.

For 2014, Humana discounted from its EPS calculation losses from paying down some bonds, even as its overall debt levels increased.

at the bank, whose main tasks include lowering China's overall debt level and opening up its financial markets.

The personnel change is a sign of policy continuity at the bank, whose main tasks include lowering China's overall debt level and opening up its financial markets.

Especially when you consider what's happened to the overall debt level.

Dedicating time to saving money for the down payment is one way to show this trait, but also are efforts to reduce the overall debt level and increase the credit score.

You should not use your credit card to add to your overall debt level.

According to a Welsh Government spokeswoman, «The partial cancellation scheme was designed to encourage Welsh students to attend university if they have the ability and to reduce their overall debt levels.»

What isn't hard is looking at the overall debt levels relative to GDP, and realizing that we have only rationalized a part of them.

«Consumers in Canada are essentially good at managing their debt and although the overall debt levels in Canada are increasing, delinquency rates — which is the number of days an account may be past - due — are dropping.

Overall, higher borrowing costs, whether due to overall debt levels or choice of debt product, increases a debtor's insolvency risk.

Lenders review gifts carefully to make sure they're not loans in disguise, something that would increase your overall debt levels.

When you are in a business cycle environment, and overall debt levels can still produce positive short - term boosts to the economy (i.e., overall debt levels are still modest), normal interest rates of 3 % over a true economy - wide inflation rate of 2 % can be expected to result in short rate of 5 % and then a positively sloped curve from there.