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By the broadest measure of a country’s ability to repay its debts, Portugal is going deeper into the hole, because its economy is shrinking.

China's government announced another cut in railway construction spending Friday amid concern about the debts of the world's biggest rail network and the safety of its showcase bullet trains.

Countries that have backed Germany’s call for fiscal discipline elsewhere are realizing austerity could make it harder, and more expensive, for them to pay down their own debts.

They say you can't take your money with you when you die—and you can't take your debt, either. When people move on to that great air-conditioned lobby in the sky, their banks sometimes ask—and ask, and ask—their grieving families to pay off remaining debts.

The legendary investor, with a personal wealth of $50bn, says the 'mega-rich get extraordinary tax breaks' and must pay more to help America tackle its debts

Just last fall, Americans were feeling better about their personal finances. Now they're starting to worry more about how they'll pay off debts as they feel the nation's economic recovery wobbling.

China has released its first public account of debts owed by its local governments, amid concern about the possible impact on banks if borrowers default.

Greece's private creditors may be asked to give the struggling country more time to repay its debts, the European Union's top economic official said Tuesday, marking an important shift in the region's attitudes towards solving the crisis.

Policy makers are working to find a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under debts including the pensions they promised public workers.

Many economic experts say bailouts only delay the inevitable, and governments should work toward organized restructuring of debts.