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

Musings on Markets

That is where the cost of capital, the Swiss Army Knife of finance that I wrote about in my sixth data update update , comes into play as a debt optimizing tool. Breaking down the remaining sectors, real estate and utilities are the heaviest users of debt, and technology and health care the lightest.

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