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The NYT left this off the list of possible solutions in an article on China’s rapidly growing private-sector debt. The basic story is a simple one. Creditors are given an equity stake in a company in exchange for reducing or eliminating the company’s debt liability. In a rapidly growing economy like China’s, there is no obvious reason this cannot be done on a large-scale, thereby radically reducing debt liabilities.