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  • Co-CIO at PIMCO, Gross sees Europe as tearing itself apart internally due to cross border struggles and the U.S. suffering from a "thinly disguised battle between labor and capital," with China and the Asian economies progressively getting more and more tired of so-called debt-financed consumerism.

    Forbes.com: News Agustino Fontevecchia 2011

  • There are many countries where loose monetary policy has stimulated the economy through debt-financed consumption.

    Stiglitz vs. the Fed Ezra Klein 2010

  • The deal was one of the last big, debt-financed real-estate buyouts before the lending markets, and subsequently the global economy, went into one of its worst downturns in decades.

    Judge Rules Against Lightstone Kris Hudson 2011

  • Near-zero benchmark interest rates—a product of the Federal Reserve's efforts to stimulate the U.S. economy—make these new debt-financed projects even more profitable.

    Oil Patch Yields a Gusher of Debt Kellie Geressy-Nilsen 2011

  • Usually, airlines focused on the number of new markets, or the number of new planes or passengers to justify debt-financed investment.

    An Airline That Makes Money. Really. Matthew Kaminski 2012

  • But, as his comments also suggest, the necessity of debt-financed stimulus is not a position that necessarily divides conservative and liberal economists.

    Martin Feldstein on the stimulus Ezra Klein 2010

  • Among France's peculiarities, the IMF cites France's high financial-sector corporate tax rates and generous credits and subsidies to debt-financed investments, which effectively reward borrowing over equity financing or retained earnings.

    A French Banking Primer 2011

  • Also, interest rates are very, very low, so debt-financed deals immediately move the needle if the target is a company that generates lots of cash and is not capital-intensive.

    Ride The Takeover Wave John W. Rogers Jr. 2010

  • From the peak of government expenditure in 1944 until 1952, the per capita real Structural GDP, the GDP that was not merely debt-financed consumption, soared by 87%; the private sector GDP, in per capita real terms, jumped by more than 90%.

    Job Creation Requires the Expectation of Likely Profits 2011

  • Having bet the company with a $1 billion debt-financed acquisition of Honeywell's

    Aerospace Bull Market Takes Flight Despite Military Cutbacks Rick Whittington 2010

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