""Once interest rates mean-revert, all of the benefits from low interest rates go away and it's very damaging to corporate balance sheets and the economy as a whole," said Pento, author of The Coming Bond Market Collapse: How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt Market."
The good news is that the danger is not immediate.
The big maturities don't start coming until 2016, when $1.02 trillion is due. In 2017 that number hits $1.04 trillion and in 2018 jumps to $1.1 trillion, according to Dealogic. In 2014, $893.5 billion comes due.
Non-financial business debt, in fact, has surpassed pre-crisis levels, rising from $10.3 trillion in the first quarter of 2008 to $13.1 trillion at the end of the second quarter in 2013, according to Fed flow of funds data. Non-financial corporate cash is also around record levels at $1.8 trillion.
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