Synonyms for public debt
pub·lic debt

Princeton's WordNet

1. public debtnoun

   the total of the nation's debts: debts of local and state and national governments; an indicator of how much public spending is financed by borrowing instead of taxation

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1. Andrew Colquhoun:

   One reason why Japan is at single A, which is a low rating, is the fragility around the baseline case for the public debt, the tolerance to fluctuations in growth and interest rates is low.

2. Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota:

   I want to be clear at the outset that I am not saying that it is appropriate for fiscal policymakers to increase the long-run level of public debt, i am simply pointing to one benefit associated with such an increase: It allows the central bank to be more effective in mitigating the impact of adverse shocks to aggregate demand.

3. Hun Sen:

   Cambodia has not only been able to plan this project for the benefit of the people but also achieve financial engineering that does not increase public debt to the state.

4. Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota:

   Given these costs, I anticipate that monetary policy will be insufficiently accommodative during periods at the nominal interest rate lower bound, which will lead the economy to undershoot the (Fed)’s inflation and employment objectives, fiscal policymakers can mitigate this risk by choosing to maintain higher levels of public debt than markets currently anticipate.

5. Jeffrey Gundlach:

   Nominal GDP growth over the past five years would have been negative if U.S. public debt had not increased, one thing everybody seems to miss when they look at these GDP numbers ... they seem to not understand that the growth in the GDP it looks pretty good on the screen is really based exclusively on debt - government debt, also corporate debt and even now some growth in mortgage debt.