But such an investment would enable these companies to have a sound debt-to-equity ratio in the vicinity of 4-to-1.
All these countries, he says, enjoy "largely sound government debt and deficit positions, robust trading networks and huge numbers of people all moving steadily up the economic ladder".
We can infer from these results and many others, for example, that Americans don't like the sound of debt or deficits.
They have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising campaigns that make debt sound desirable and risk-free.
Gellaitry hails from Stirling and has signed to XL, not Warp, but his sound owes a debt to his neighbours.
Its sound activities deposits, senior debt and most assets were transferred to Novo Banco, a newly-created "good bank".
Though President Vladimir Putin's approval ratings have suffered only limited damage so far, politicians have been proposing new legislation to sound tough on debt collectors, now being dubbed by the public as "black bailiffs" and "vultures of the crisis".
The rolling thunder of accumulating student debt sounds a lot like the perfect storm of mortgage liabilities that threatened major financial institutions and precipitated the Great Recession in 2007.
Yet almost certainly the argument about the personal financial payoff of college has become the more compelling narrative — and when the benefits of college are increasingly considered personal, large personal debts sound like a fair trade-off.
Bailey said the idea of flying unmanned drones for a year in Afghanistan to pay off student loan debt sounded pretty attractive.
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