debt service
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U.S. debt service payments totaled $963 billion during the first 10 months of this fiscal year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Even if the tariff money were specifically directed at debt service, it wouldn’t have done much to defray the roughly $1 trillion in interest the government will incur this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Less debt service = greater ability to withstand downside shocks to purchasing power.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Of the $62 million in debt service payments the public had to make each year, $50 million had been coming from USAir, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported in 2003.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
As Ghana obtains concessional loans and pays off high-interest debt, however, debt service is expected to fall below 30% of export earnings in the early 1990s.
From The 1990 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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