The Foreign debt (n.) is the interest of capital in general, holding a mass of humanity under its yoke.
Medical debt (n.) is why people ask how much the ambulance costs before they get in.
Medical debt (n.) is a get-well card with an interest rate.
Medical debt (n.) is like a ransom paid after the hostage is already home.
Medical debt (n.) is the price of staying alive, billed months after the danger passed.
Moral debt (n.) arises, by official logic, not from mass slaughter but from losing: the winner of such a war would owe nothing at all.
Moral debt (n.) is incurred, in the press's logic, by ending up on the losing side — so a victor would owe nothing.
A Mortgage (n.) is feudal dues in modern dress: the city usurer has stepped into the shoes of the feudal lord.
A Mortgage (n.) is how great landowners who spend faster than their lands bring in avoid selling — and where most of England's lent money went in 1691.
A Mortgage (n.) dogs the heels of private landownership as prostitution dogs monogamy: you wanted land you could freely sell, and now you can lose it.
A Mortgage (n.) is a pawn ticket on the land; as privileges accumulated on the medieval estate, mortgages accumulate on the modern small allotment — and mortgaging begets mortgaging.