Sentence examples for fixed debt from inspiring English sources

Mayor Wagner & the Board of Education want an amendment to the state constitution that will let the city borrow 500 million dollars more than its legally fixed debt limit, to catch up with a great lag in school construction.

It did not factor state promises for retiree health care into its analysis, on the thinking that pensions are a fixed debt like bonds, but retiree health plans can usually be renegotiated.

Under the interest-rate-swap deals popular with European municipalities, a bank would agree to cover a locality's fixed debt payment and the government or agency would pay a variable rate, thus gambling that its costs would be lower and taking on the risk that they could be many times higher.

So, you sign on for decades of new, fixed debt.

There's another issue: deflation makes fixed debts, such as mortgages and bank loans, more onerous.

Historically, higher prices have led to higher wages, allowing borrowers to repay fixed debts like mortgage loans more easily.

BBC economics correspondent Andrew Walker says there is a dilemma for the group on the best timing for fixing debt problems.

The choice of the adjustment sequence closely relates to the maturity structure choice of corporate debt: choosing a certain time to maturity for corporate debt contractually fixes debt levels over this time frame.

What seems to be getting all the press are government efforts to fix debt and corruption, a mere bandage on a festering wound of a city with way too little private enterprise to stimulate growth.

How can the government claim it is fixing a debt crisis when, er, debt is rising?

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