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
Investors are leaning hard on this country to get its spiralling public debt under control.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
A key driver of expenditures was the rising interest paid on public debt, which jumped $144 billion to a record $1.36 trillion.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
For their AI build-outs, the companies issued hundreds of billions of dollars of bonds, pushing the public debt market to its limits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
There need be no haste in refunding the public debt at the rates now proposed and considered low.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones
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