Debt is not a taboo word in the USA ....The Financial Services companies are looking for new and wonderous ways to make debt into a tradeable security/commodity ....Hedge funds bet both ways .....Money is made for the sake of enriching the house account rather than the "investor" ...CEOs work to get 1 year worth of good results by downsizing the feck out of their companies,make huge bonues,feck off and leave the companies stranded ....We live in a short term World ,we all need to deal with it and bend over