Sentences with phrase «unsustainable debt increases»

We have unsustainable debt increases because of lack of self - control on the part of our leaders.

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However, over time subnational debt levels will increase in an unsustainable manner.

Greeks need to recognize that there is no going back to a way of life that was paid for by an unsustainable increase in debt.

The so - called «debt - resource - hypothesis» suggests that high indebtedness leads to increased natural resource exploitation as well as more unsustainable patterns of resource use (Neumayer 2012).

Without a massive transfer of wealth from the state sector to the household sector it will be impossible, I would argue, for GDP growth rates of anything above 3 - 4 % — and perhaps even less — to occur without a further unsustainable increase in debt, whether that increase occurs inside or outside the formal banking system and whether or not discipline has been imposed on borrowers.

It is important to understand how debt payments are managed in order to recognize that whether or not China's debt burden is socialized has very little to do with the resolution of China's debt burden (aside from the fact that it never was «off» the government balance sheet in any meaningful way), just as analysts must recognize that an unsustainable increase in debt is embedded into China's current growth model, and is not an accidental bit of bad luck.

The unsustainable increase in debt continues to be China's greatest economic vulnerability.

There is, in other words, actually quite a lot that we know and understand about the model, even if many of us seem to have forgotten much of it — including its typical weaknesses, one of the most obvious of which is the tendency for over-investment in the late stages of the miracle - growth period leading to an unsustainable increase in debt.

At the time the former seemed a more dangerous risk than the latter — although even then massive overinvestment was China's true vulnerability — but I think by now there is a rapidly developing consensus that investment, and the unsustainable concomitant increase in debt, is China's biggest problem.

«Student reliance on credit card and student loan debt to pay for more than tuition is further evidence that the increase in college expenses remains unsustainable,» says Charles Tran, founder of CreditDonkey.com.

1 % interest increase on a 16 Trillion dollar debt would be unsustainable.