It just concluded a debt for debt-and-preferred exchange offer, the deadline for which it had to extend several times.
Debt is debt, and for every borrower there is a lender.
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And he will continue to "do these things" through the same bad policies : projects for US companies paid for with Egyptian debt, more debt, more IMF and World Bank plans pushing us to privilege "growth" and "free trade" over real development and critical issues like food security.
Our findings indicate that firms with greater amounts of non-debt tax shields have lower levels of debt, substituting debt tax shields for other tax allowances such as depreciation expenses.
Unlike debt forgiveness, which creates losses for banks as they write down bad debt, debt-for-equity swaps cost nothing at all.
This will be expensive for the banks, entailing debt-for-equity swaps, debt forgiveness and reduced interest rates on bank loans.Last year the banks went through similar restructuring.
Baugur and Landsbanki had been talking for months about a debt restructuring, or a debt-for-equity swap.
In Japan, UFJ and other banks dropped after Daiei, which borrowed heavily to expand, asked its main lenders to erase 300 billion yen in loans through debt waivers and debt-for-equity swaps, and to retire 120 billion yen in preferred shares.
Their debt relief measures — lowering interest rates on some debt, lengthening deadlines for debt payments, buying back debt and handing profits on Greek bonds bought by the European Central Bank back to Athens — amounted to a kind of backdoor debt forgiveness.
Re "A Blasphemy Spreads: Debts Are O.K". (Arts & Ideas pages, Jan . 19: While there is controversy about the tolerable level of debt, the reason for debt makes a difference.
