11.   If so, should we encourage consumption when debts are rising?

12.   In each case, corporate debt rose rapidly in the final years of the expansion.

13.   In other trading, developing country debt rose in tandem with U.S. bonds, lifted by a strong dollar.

14.   Internal debt would rise, because the bonds represent loans from the trust funds to the Treasury.

15.   Last week the Dow Jones Industrial Average and U.S. bonds fell and emerging market debt rose, leaving some savvy investors in emerging markets clueless.

16.   Mastercard said consumer debt is rising compared to disposable income because households are increasingly using credit cards instead of cash to pay for goods and services.

17.   Russian debt also rose.

18.   Russian debt rose a day after Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin escaped a no-confidence vote.

19.   Russian debt rose.

20.   Since the downgrade announcement, the yield premium investors demand to own Asian corporate debt has risen by as much as two percentage points.