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Such a plan can get off the ground only if 50 Democratic senators are willing to rely on the budget reconciliation process – used to combine the bills adopted by the House of Representatives and the Senate – and are willing to accelerate that process and complete it within a month.

Electricity is supplied on a pay-as-you-go basis and tied to phone bills, unlocking market opportunities for isolated farmers.

That is tough when, in Europe, nobody wants to pay Greece’s bills.

Here is how the arithmetic works for an investor who rolls over ten-year bonds for the next five years, thus earning 2% more each year than he would by investing in Treasury bills or bank deposits.

The highest-denomination banknote, the 100-bolivar bill, which was worth $46.5 when it was introduced in 2008, fell to just $0.03, requiring mountains of bills to make small payments.

The value of the stock of bills and coins held outside banks has fallen from about $150 per capita in 2012 to less than $6 at the beginning of this month.

And the shortage of bills – caused in part by the difficulty of supplying so much low-value currency – upset Venezuelans to the point that the government finally took action.

According to Maduro, the problem was straightforward: bills were being siphoned out of the country by mafias financed by the CIA.

To destroy the mafias, Maduro canceled these bills as legal tender and gave their holders only 72 hours to exchange them at banks.

Nobody would accept their 100-bolivar notes, and banks had no bills to exchange for those being returned by the public.

There was a time when privatization – allowing individuals to set up individual savings accounts – seemed better than Social Security, which invests in lower-yielding Treasury bills.

The experience of the Great Recession tells us what to expect from financial markets when output plummets: as inflation tumbles, so do nominal and real (inflation-protected) yields on Treasury bills.

For years, China funneled its surpluses back into the purchase of US Treasury bills, thus underwriting American profligacy and forging a symbiotic arrangement that the historian Niall Ferguson has called “Chimerica.”

Congress was finalizing spending bills for fiscal year 2016, and the UN was completing its work on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), setting targets that will guide development policy for the next 15 years.

Paying bills is difficult, not only because Israel is slow in transferring customs revenues, but also because promised aid from Arab countries often never arrives.

There were actually two huge tax bills during the Reagan years – the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986 – and they differed in almost every respect.

Guns require just a little training to operate, whereas an electrical utility requires a large team of people with varied expertise to run the generators, install and service the transmission lines and sub-stations, limit theft, and compel customers to pay their bills on time.

Because of rising energy prices from green subsidies, 800,000 German households can no longer pay their electricity bills.

At the same time, the Fed is already reducing its holdings of US Treasury bills and mortgage bonds.

When China buys US Treasury bills, who depends on whom?

Optimists point out that the country is supposed to eliminate its primary deficit (the budget balance minus interest payments) by 2013, which implies that it could pay its non debt-related bills with its own resources after a default.

Obama didn’t need focus groups to tell him that ordinary Americans were struggling to pay their medical bills and being denied treatment for preexisting conditions.

Indeed, many of them received interest rates as high as 60 percent on the Russian treasury bills that they purchased in the past year.

Two recent bipartisan bills – which seem to have the support of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, among others – link such reforms directly to federal infrastructure funding.

Argentina’s government, in line with a G20 commitment, has been slashing subsidies for private gas and oil heating bills.

Unsurprisingly, many companies and households can no longer afford their energy bills.

The dividends promised by a “green” MFF (which recently received the support of the European Parliament) are at least threefold: a higher share of jobs in one of the world’s fastest-growing economic sectors; lower energy bills for households throughout Europe; and help in achieving the reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions to which all EU states have agreed as part of their “Europe 2020” commitments.

So, rather than spending money on medical bills, they are boosting their income and spending capacity, both of which help the economy to grow.

Bills to make Puerto Rico eligible for Chapter 9 are being introduced in Congress.

But investors will still worry about what happens when the bills come due.

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