public debt
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Apollo started out as a private-equity fund manager, then launched credit funds that traded public debt before using its internal insurer Athene to turbocharge its private-credit operations, a strategy that many competitors have since copied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
On Friday, the Moody's ratings agency is expected to lower its grade on France's public debt, which is one of the highest in the EU compared with GDP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
The ONS revealed also that UK public debt at the end of September was provisionally estimated to have exceeded £3 trillion for the first time.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Borrowing costs have risen sharply in advanced economies, public debt is at historic highs and fiscal cushions thinned by a barrage of crises, said Silvana Tenreyro, chief economist at the IMF.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The religious were driven out into the world; and their lands, goods, libraries, and art-treasures were sold for the benefit of the public debt, and to supply means to carry on the civil war.
From The Friars in the Philippines by Ambrose Coleman
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