Perhaps most fundamental of all is the question of debt.
Eventually, you have to address the question of debt, but I'm on the record as saying that I think the world in general exaggerates the significance of debt.
But while the new bail-out may end up bigger than the old, it will not necessarily lead to the quick disbursements that Ukraine desperately needs.For that reason Ukrainian officials were forced into a volte-face on the question of debt restructuring.
So, on the core question of debt, on bringing America back to fiscal reason, Obama is still better than McCain".
But even as markets elsewhere generally remained calm, the questions of sovereign debt raised by Dubai's move kept the pressure on Greece, one of the most indebted nations in Europe.
The success of the debt campaign was that it kept the question of unpayable debt on the G8 agenda year after year.
Larry Elliott, the Guardian's economics editor, says the success of the debt campaign was that it kept the question of unpayable debt on the G8 agenda year after year.
That question of sovereign debt arithmetic isn't merely academic.
When she'd regained her composure, she said to President Romney, "I know you will have much to add on the question of the debt crisis in the euro zone, Mr. President".
Mrs. Merkel's efforts to please both sides on the question of the debt crisis — through stern talk about Greece's failure and profligacy on the one hand and a series of conditional debt guarantees to prop up Europe's problem child on the other — have succeeded in ultimately pleasing neither.
