One place to start is the tax deduction for interest payments on home mortgages.

Scientists have mortgages to pay just like the rest of us.

Moreover, the Greek government s interest payments are exceptionally low.

Instead, the government merely sets an insurance premium and forces everyone to pay it.

Unable to repay their loans, they kill themselves.

A government s capacity and willingness to service its debt depend on an almost infinite number of present and future contingencies.

This will make it possible for the Greek government to service its debt.

Corporations are allowed to deduct interest payments on bonds, but stock dividends are effectively taxed at the both the corporate and the individual level.

Further haircuts on private claims would also be needed, starting with a moratorium on interest payments.

Businesses should encourage their employees to be healthy by providing discounts on insurance, offering team sports, and the like.

But if individuals can do tests from which insurance companies are barred, and if those who receive adverse genetic information then buy additional life insurance without disclosing the tests that they have taken, they are cheating other holders of life insurance. Premiums will have to increase to cover the losses, and those with a good genetic prognosis may opt out of life insurance to avoid subsidizing the cheats, driving premiums higher still.

Back then, financial market participants had to devise fantastic schemes and contortions to disguise interest payments.

UNHCR paid 18 million to UNDP in 10 instalments, for services rendered in the field in 2004.

UNHCR paid 18 million to UNDP in 10 instalments for services rendered in the field in 2004.

Government debt service has in general become easier, owing to low interest rates.

This obviously depends in part on the amount of debt outstanding, the interest rate, and the country s growth prospects if it continues to pay.

I further propose that member countries agree to use the IMF's gold reserves to guarantee the interest payments and repayment of the principal.

Since high risk premiums on government bonds endanger the capital adequacy of banks, half a solution is not enough.

If premiums were paid in part by the country seeking insurance and matched by donor contributions, countries would have a powerful incentive to implement robust social protection programs.

That translates into an additional 16billion per year in interest payments on Greece s current debt of 273 billion.

All members would, in principle, be eligible, but premium rates would be differentiated and established on the basis of quantitative criteria.

High home prices are already putting great stress on many families, which are struggling to make their mortgage payments.

Indeed, these debt service costs alone account for 22 of the Egyptian government s total expenditures.

As Bernanke pointed out, 45 of US farms were behind on mortgage payments in 1933, and in 1934, default rates on home mortgages exceeded 38 in half of US cities.

Insurance regulators are certainly well aware of the risk of future increases in homeowners insurance premiums.

According to estimates by Robert Klein of Georgia State University, homeowners insurance premiums in Louisiana had already gone up by 70 between 1997 and 2005.

a rapid reduction of insolvent households debt burden, preceded by a temporary freeze on all foreclosures

Countries can reduce their national debt by narrowing the budget deficit or achieving a primary surplus (the fiscal balance minus interest payments on outstanding debt).

The largest number of defaults on sub prime mortgages will occur this spring.

If a Pfandbrief is not serviced, one can take the issuing bank to court.

Before the HIPC Initiative, eligible countries spent, on average, slightly more on debt service than on health and education combined.

But this fear is unfounded, because it is based on a misunderstanding. What matters for debt service capacity is the debtors' income, not the general price level.

The capital would be repaid in annual installments as the funds become available through the EU budget, while the national co financing rate would apply to interest payments.

This variable makes an enormous difference in terms of whether debt will be regularly and promptly serviced.

Official bankruptcy, a regular occurrence, required prolonging maturities on state debt and reducing interest payments.

When homeowners cannot pay their mortgages, they may lose their house, blighting the entire neighborhood.

Local governments are equally careless, often failing to service their debts.

If the IMF terminates its current program, Pakistan will be unable to service its foreign debt.

We then call on credit rating agencies to certify that the less risky of these mortgage backed securities are safe enough for pension funds and insurance companies to invest in.

Female workers aged 55, having paid social insurance for 25 years and male workers aged 60, having paid social insurance for 30 years, are entitled to equal maximum monthly pension in accordance with the Government's regulations.

This is exacerbated by the fact that borrowers can deduct only nominal interest payments when calculating their taxable income.

In August 1982, Mexico shocked the world by declaring that it was unable to service its debt.

Moreover, the premiums would provide price signals that would guide new construction.

What would help is if their nominal disposable income rose relative to their (fixed) debt service.

The greatest crisis facing many Americans is their increasing inability to meet their monthly mortgage payments.