We have paid dearly for our "services" fixation, not least with a huge foreign debt attributable to excess imports of the goods we still consume.
Other fluctuations in the funds' value were attributable to annual debt service payments of $9.1 million, payments to retirees and pension board operating expenses.
The fiscal situation is worse than it looks because two-thirds of public debt, attributable to regional governments, is not accounted for.
The leader of the House, Chris Grayling, clearly regards himself as a "hail fellow well met" sort; an amusing raconteur with whom anyone would count themselves lucky to get stuck in a lift for an hour or two; his delusion is such that he would almost certainly regard any fatalities in that time as attributable to oxygen debt rather than self-inflicted through boredom.
"Indeed, the latest data show the U.K. economy performing worse than the euro zone economy, which saw zero growth at the start of the year — meaning the U.K.'s woes cannot even be fully attributable to the debt crisis embroiling the Continent".
Host: But isn't two-thirds of current debt attributable to three decades of reduced tax revenue and W's Great Recession, two wars, Medicare Part D? Torie vigorously disagrees, citing demographic changes ballooning Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.
The largest component of debt is attributable to banks and other non-government sectors, which together owe more than $650bn to foreign lenders, 17% of which is short-term, and much of which (46%) is attributable to state-owned banks and enterprises.
Knowing that a ridiculously large chunk of the state debt is attributable to state pensions is helpful because lawmakers cannot stop the bleeding until they know the source.
About 34% of the growth in student debt was not attributable any of those policies, and instead came from population growth increasing the number of students.
True, the rise in student debt isn't all attributable to for-profit schools.
