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The federal assumption of states’ debts by itself could not guarantee political order.
Ireland knows better than most countries the difficulties that can arise from having to borrow to fund services or repay maturing debts.
A banking crisis that could have been resolved through a fair and decisive restructuring of unsustainable debts has ballooned into a much greater economic and political crisis that pits creditors against debtors, both within and among countries.
Government debts never have to be repaid, provided they can be extended in a cooperative manner or bought up with newly created money, issued by a credible central bank.
The gross debts of households and financial institutions are higher today as a share of national income than they were before the financial crisis.
Exceptionally high public and private debts constrain a country’s options and are indisputably associated with slower growth, which in turn makes it difficult to escape a debt trap.
How to Default on Sovereign DebtITHACA – The financial brinkmanship over Greece’s debts has raised the question of whether (or when) the country will default.
Repay some debt: It sounds counterintuitive, but countries in default should consider paying some of their debts – on their own terms and on a graduated basis – as a way to rebuild creditworthiness.
Even after the Soviet Union’s repudiation of czarist Russia’s debts – perhaps the twentieth century’s most notorious (and most misunderstood) debt default – certain creditors expressed interest in lending to the new regime, in part because Soviet agencies repaid debt that they considered legitimate.
More recently, Ecuador continued payments on the small portion of debt that it considered acceptable after defaulting on its international debts in 2008 (under circumstances far less extreme than Greece’s).
And the potential for volatility is particularly great if domestic corporations have large foreign-currency debts, which is true in all of the emerging economies under stress today.
If there are large dollar debts outstanding, and many firms find themselves in the same position, the additional demand for dollars will cause the exchange rate to depreciate even further.
The overshooting is caused by the coexistence of sizeable foreign-currency debts and financial (collateral) constraints.
The country finds itself unable to refinance its debts in private markets at an affordable cost – as happened to Greece and Portugal.
Zombie banks should be restructured, excessive debts (both private and public) written down, and increased investment combined with reforms to boost productivity (and thus wages).
Government’s mounting debts have been a response to the economic downturn, not its cause.
America has also come to recognize the need to forgive Iraq's debts, which will require rapprochement and cooperation with traditional US allies that opposed the war.
But the marriage between Chinese savings and American consumption had a fatal flaw: it created non-repayable debts.
With many firms in those sectors now relying on new loans to cover operating losses, large bad debts are inevitable.
But the authorities also must address the enormous debts already accumulated, by using fiscal resources to fund bank recapitalization.
With the government now fully guaranteeing Fannie’s and Freddie’s debts, American taxpayers will have to pay for everything not covered by their creditors’ inadequate capital.
Even though the dollar is already overvalued, it could move into a self-reinforcing upward spiral, as it did in the early 1980s and late 1990s, owing to dollar debts accumulated in emerging markets by governments and companies tempted by near-zero interest rates.
The peripheral eurozone countries became over-indebted in the last decade because the bond market failed to provide a signal that debts were too high.
Indian fathers still sometimes repay debts by committing their children to bonded labor.
Just as inflation helps debtors by eroding the real value of their debts, deflation hurts them by increasing the real value of what they owe.
For example, Poland received a partial cancellation of its debts;Russia did not.
Because the debts of the large industrial borrowers – the UK and the US – are externally financed, the argument that their governments can always monetize debt is not convincing.
The rallying call against paying foreign debt, which was ubiquitous in Latin America in the 1980’s, was buried when the Argentinean government did the same thing, committing one-third of its reserves to pay in advance its debts to the IMF.
That is why the EU should strive to create a fiscal framework that has the sole objective of ensuring that its members’ debts are sustainable.
True, no country has been officially reprimanded for excessive deficits or debts.
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