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Practically speaking, this mounts up to the same as borrowing — a contact, like debt, represents an obligation to make a stream of future payments. But legally speaking, it’s not the same, because in the U.K., contractual obligations …

UAL’s $175 Million Debt Is Most Expensive Since 2000 (Update1) (Bloomberg)

June 30 (Bloomberg) — United Airlines ’ $175 million in debt issued last week is its most expensive in at least nine years, reflecting the carrier’s need for cash and a dwindling supply of assets to use as collateral.

United Airline’s debt running on spare parts (Dealscape – Middle …

United Airlines collateralized its $175 million debt bond offering with spare parts from its planes.

Debt Facts for Better Cash Management

Debt Facts for Better Cash Management and facts that will help manage cash better.

Geary Behavioural Economics Blog: Household Debt Restructuring

Via the Irish Economy Blog, below is a recent paper from the IMF on government’s role in household debt restructuring. I commented on the IE Blog that the Irish case has a number of structural features that merit further discussion. …

Personal debt's impact on not only consumer spending, but tax …

which is why California is bankrupt for the most part. The great depression (exclude what the government did and didn’t do) was mostly about the consumer.

Beth Kobliner: Protecting Students From Credit Card Debt » A …

Buried in the new law that regulates credit card companies are a couple of rules, called for by President Obama in a town hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, “to protect students from getting stuck in debt before they even get …

Going Green to Get Out of Debt (ABC News)

ABC’s Jerika Richardson reports from New York: In an effort to help save some of the world’s disappearing tropical forests the United States is offering Indonesia some much needed debt relief. Today, the Indonesian government signed a “debt-for-nature swap agreement”…

Going Green to Get Out of Debt – The World Newser

ABC’s Jerika Richardson reports from New York: In an effort to help save some of the world’s disappearing tropical forests the United States is offering Indonesia some much needed debt relief. Today, the Indonesian government signed a …

= FOCUS:Emaar Merger Signals Dubai Inc. Consolidation,M&A Wave (Zawya)

DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)–The merger of Dubai’s Emaar Properties Emaar Properties PJSC (EMAAR.DFM) and three state-controlled property firms could prompt a wave of consolidation in the struggling emirate, analysts say.