He was the first who called attention to the public debt.
In other words, the more they try to cut, the worse public debt will be.
Big public debts are not always bad, to be sure.
Just the interest on the public debt will reach $293 billion this year.
The government is talking about paying off the public debt.
There is also a need to avoid public and private debt.
Also, the public debt of the city is $74,368,454, which represents an increase from the past years.
As a result, Argentina began 2002 with its total public debt at $141 billion.
The interest on the public national debt will be £63bn a year by 2014, according to the Treasury.
The level of public debt is not so easy to evaluate.
Don't you think the national debt is already large enough?
The media has the same position on the national debt.
Wouldn't we be better off if the money was used to pay down the national debt?
Interest on the national debt will be some $200 billion.
The next period of major increase in the national debt took place between 1930 and 1945.
We pay more than $300 billion in interest on the national debt every year.
Put in place a program to pay off the national debt.
We will pay off our national debt for the first time since 1945.
In the process, we would pay off the national debt.
We need to continue to pay down the national debt.
Share prices have been hit by the fears surrounding sovereign debt in recent weeks.
This is the last sovereign debt on Earth that should be paid.
The price of Italy's sovereign debt went back up towards danger levels.
She is the author of books on sovereign debt and international finance.
In the past, credit ratings focused mainly on sovereign debt.
Why should this principle be restricted to sovereign debt, however?
We cannot continue to allow speculative securities based on sovereign debt.
Why try and hide the full level of banks' exposure to sovereign debt, especially when we all know the likely reality?
By reporting the level of exposure to sovereign debt, the market players can make their own risk assessments.
"To reduce credit risk, the best bet is sovereign debt of developed countries," she said.