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Gazprom, in its long-running feud with the Kremlin, demanded that the Russian government allow it to pay only half its due taxes, not to mention its tax debts.
And, because China chooses its projects according to their long-term strategic value, they may yield short-term returns that are insufficient for countries to repay their debts.
Mueller’s team is poring over Manafort’s business dealings – projects around the world, debts, funds stashed in foreign tax shelters, suspected money laundering, and more.
Why is it so hard to feel sympathy for a developing country that can’t pay its debts?
Unable to pay all of its debts, perhaps it will be forced to default on all of them.
Since winning the presidency, Hollande has won a parliamentary majority and pushed Germany toward accepting joint liability for eurozone countries’ debts.
They have huge debts, which they amortize by rezoning and selling land.
Those creditors’ debts are thus riskier, and should be more expensive to the bank than the debt that is not designated to be turned into equity.
Indeed, the mere thought that major shareholders’ debts would be forgiven at taxpayers’ expense has created political paralysis for years.
Opening negotiations with the Paris Club over the debts that the country renounced in 2002, and appealing to the International Monetary Fund for technical assistance to give credibility and transparency to official statistics, would contribute to normalizing access to international credit markets.
Lenders to a repressive regime will no longer expect these debts to be repaid by its successors, immediately making lenders worldwide careful about lending to them.
He also cancelled the debts of some small producers and raised the prices paid by the state for milk and meat.
While the European Central Bank’s bond-purchasing scheme has calmed financial markets to a considerable extent, some European economies – including Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal – are still at risk, because they are not growing fast enough to narrow their deficits and stem the growth of their national debts.
This would allow Italy, Spain, and even Greece to finance their national debts at a more reasonable, sustainable cost.
By contrast, turning creditor-country citizens’ tax payments into forced subsidies of other countries’ debts would undermine European cohesion.
Nordic countries, for example, cannot be expected to fund other countries’ debts in the long term – especially if those countries have not made full use of their own resources.
By calling upon citizens to finance their own countries’ national debts, southern Europe’s leaders can fix their own economies and strengthen the European principles of solidarity and subsidiarity.
To meet any shortfall in credit, the banks and chaebols relied heavily on attracting short-term debts from foreign capital market.
So cavalier was this practice that most chaebols had average debts of more than seven times the value of their equity.
So casual and systematic was this collaboration, indeed, that when the IMF package was announced December 3rd, the bureaucracy had little or no idea of the scale of debts Korea had accumulated, nor even a clear picture of the foreign exchange reserves held by the Bank of Korea.
Over the last decade, we have watched as the Stability and Growth Pact (in which EU countries pledge to keep their public debts and deficits low) has dissipated in a mist of permissiveness.
The rescue initially takes the form of intergovernmental loans, so that the fiction can be preserved that each country pays back its own debts.
After Alexander Hamilton, the country’s first treasury secretary, mutualized the states’ Revolutionary War debts in 1791 by turning them into federal debt, the states went on a borrowing binge to finance infrastructure projects.
When the bubble burst after 2008, land prices collapsed, debts went bad, and Ireland’s private banks failed.
Financial stability was obviously a smokescreen: taxpayers were forced to repay even the debts of a bank that had already been closed (and thus systemically irrelevant).
The cause of Thailand’s crisis was the combination of a shaky banking system (made shakier by the dollar debts of its clients), a large, short-dated foreign debt with the resulting risk of a funding crisis, and a total lack of transparency coupled with a pervasive overlay of corruption.
The central bank might have cleaned up the banking system long ago, ensured the covering by assets of external dollar debts and shifted to a band-basket-crawl (BBC) exchange rate regime.
You never know how deep the puddle is - Few lenders and policy makers look at the size and maturity of external debts.
If America’s debts had truly become less trustworthy, they would have been even more dubious before the agreement reached on August 2 by Congress and President Barack Obama to raise the government’s debt ceiling.
With risk assets’ long-term valuation falling and pressure to prick price bubbles rising, China’s capital reserves will be insufficient to refinance the developed countries’ debts cheaply.
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