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Data Update 8 for 2025: Debt, Taxes and Default - An Unholy Trifecta!

Musings on Markets

Using this distinction, all interest-bearing debt, short term and long term, clears meets the criteria for debt, but for almost a century, leases, which also clearly meet the criteria (contractually set, limited role in management) of debt, were left off the books by accountants.

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Is BP’s new strategy – full focus on profits – viable in the long term?

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billion in net debt, reducing total debt to GBP 17.5 (USD Furthermore, the company increased dividends by 10% and announced that it will buy back GBP 2.3 (USD Furthermore, the company increased dividends by 10% and announced that it will buy back GBP 2.3 (USD billion worth of shares. billion worth of shares.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

Even when you are successful in dissuading these companies from "bad" investments, but may not be able to stop them from returning the cash to shareholders as dividends and buybacks, rather than making "good" investments. Over the last decade, some of private equity’s biggest players have invested well over $1.1