The phrase "age of debt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period characterized by high levels of borrowing and financial obligations, often in economic or social discussions.
Example: "In today's age of debt, many individuals struggle to manage their financial responsibilities."
Alternatives: "era of borrowing" or "period of indebtedness".
In an age of debt, an unexpected loss can drive almost anyone to ruin.
A glance at the headlines from Europe, the news from Washington or this month's bills will confirm that we live in an age of debt.
Unlike his earlier novels, "Back to Blood" doesn't aspire to capture the zeitgeist of an era (i.e., the age of greed in "Bonfire," or the age of debt and doubt in "A Man in Full").
Or this: In an age of debt (we all know about this), "Divorce, an unhappy second marriage, a serious illness, no job...a turn here, a turn there, and my life might have been very different too".
In August, the La Jolla Playhouse will premiere his new work "Junk: The Golden Age of Debt," a treatise on debt financing, deal-making and how a "rapacious accumulation of wealth" has dominated American life since the 1980s.
The price of secondhand debt depends on factors like the age of the debt, average balance, how much documentation is available to prove the debt and where the debtors are located.
My assets, (as encouraged by my own government in order to save-save-save for later, are mostly untouchable until I am of retirement age), lack of debt, and high credit rating make no difference.
They look at the ages of the borrowers (younger age means they will pay less money), they look at the age of the debt (older means they will pay less money for the debt), and yes they look at race and gender and what state you live in.
In an age of trillion-dollar debt and billion-dollar bank bailouts, America's lowest common denomination seems to bear little value as an individual monetary unit.
Connaughton saw Kaufman seventy years old, with a musty M.B.A. from Wharton as akin to Rip Van Winkle, waking up in the age of "synthetic collateralized debt obligations" and "naked credit default swaps".
In an age of mounting private debt and stagnating wages – where 17 million Britons have less than £100 savings, and house prices in England and Wales are on average nine times local annual incomes – tax breaks on savings, charitable donations and firms' debt repayments act as subsidies for the rentier class.
