Just a year ago the company was rudderless, mired in debt, dipping into its endowment and nearly defunct.
Updated at 12.36pm BST 11.39am BST Greek auction results Greece sold €1.625bn of three-month bonds without any trouble this morning, with the average yield on the debt dipping to 4.24%, from 4.31% last time.
For much of the last 18 months, the added expenses failed to curtail shopping, as consumers took out more debt and dipped into their savings.
The interest rate on Italy's 10-year debt has dipped to 6.6 percent from 7.1 percent earlier this week, though it is still unsustainably higher than the 4 percent to 5 percent it traded at for much of the last two years.
Selig accused McCourt of saddling the Dodgers with debt and dipping into team funds to pay for personal expenses.
Here and across the country, they have responded by taking on more credit-card debt and dipping into retirement savings, among other steps, economics experts said.
As I sank deeper into debt -- dipping into our savings though no longer spending much of anything on myself -- I kept buying her gifts, sometimes extremely expensive ones; for her 30th birthday, I paid a seamstress to replicate a vintage rayon dress, one of her favorites, in yellow silk.
So far, Saudi Arabia is making ends meet by cutting fuel subsidies, introducing sales taxes, issuing sovereign debt, and dipping into its cash reserves.
Many here noted with satisfaction that "Brazil Risk," the cost of protecting the country's debt against nonpayment, dipped below that of the United States last year.
