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In fact, intensifying his letter’s pathos, he requested that part of the money the university owes him be paid to his family to cover debts he incurred as a result of being denied his fellowship.
The European public has discovered that the 2008-2009 fiscal stimulus programs, which were aimed at forestalling an even greater crisis, generated more debts than jobs.
Several other countries in Central and Eastern Europe, such as Hungary, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, were also living dangerously, with large current-account deficits and firms and households running up huge debts in foreign currency.
They reduced inflation, floated their currencies, ran external surpluses or small deficits, and, most importantly, accumulated mountains of foreign reserves (which now comfortably exceed their short-term external debts).
Argentina should be given a year's full suspension of payments on its foreign debts, to be followed by a deep reduction in overall indebtedness.
After all, with painful deleveraging – spending less and saving more to reduce debts – depressing domestic private and public demand, the only hope of restoring growth is an improvement in the trade balance, which requires a much weaker euro.
More eurozone countries will be forced to restructure their debts, and eventually some will decide to exit the monetary union.
While the American economy gets dragged down further in a swamp of bad property debts, China will continue to boom.
Confrontation and brinkmanship have become the new watchwords of American politics, even when the US government’s legal ability to pay its debts is on the line, owing to the Tea Party’s ideological rigidity.
It has led to substantial waste, exemplified in local governments’ massive debts.
Africa's Odious DebtsOne side effect of the American/British occupation of Iraq is that it sparked public debate on a dark secret of international finance: the debts taken on by odious regimes.
As Iraq's new rulers debate what to do about the billions of dollars in foreign debts inherited from Saddam Hussein's regime, voices ranging from the charity Oxfam-International to US defence guru Richard Perle are calling for debt repudiation on the grounds that the debts Iraq now bears were contracted to sustain a corrupt, oppressive regime.
Iraq is not the only country burdened by such debts.
Adding imputed interest earnings, the stock of Africa's capital flight stood at $274 billion - a sum equivalent to 145% of the debts owed by those countries.
In other words, sub-Saharan Africa is a net creditor to the rest of the world: its external assets exceed its external debts.
The difference is that the assets are private and the debts public.
The logic of sound banking tells us that current and future African governments should accept liability only for those portions of public debts that were incurred to finance bona fide domestic investment or public consumption.
The first is to determine who should bear the burden of proof in identifying which debts are "odious."
The second problem is that creditors may withhold new lending from governments that have the nerve to reject odious debts.
In the long run, selective repudiation of odious debts will benefit both borrowers and creditors by promoting more responsible lending practices.
If Iraq's occupation gives impetus to legal challenges that free Africans from the burden of odious debts, then the war will have succeeded in dismantling at least one weapon of mass destruction.
Given that outstanding loans already amount to nearly double China’s GDP – a result of the country’s massive stimulus since 2008 – new loans are largely being used to pay off old debts, rather than for investment in the real economy.
The whole point of his 1940 pamphlet How to Pay for the War was that higher taxes were needed to avoid the kind of inflation Britain had experienced during World War I. Toward the end of World War II, he fretted about the high level of military spending, and was depressed by the loss of power that came with Britain’s large external debts.
Burdened by the public debts resulting from past mistakes, eurozone governments know what they need to do but not how to do it.
Meanwhile, demand in most of the European Union is weak, ruling out the economic growth needed to repay debts and offer hope to the 25 million unemployed.
Greeks look poised to elect on January 25 a government dominated by the far-left Syriza party, which once stood for repudiation of the euro but now pledges to negotiate a restructuring of Greece’s debts.
Though a write-off of eurozone debts would be politically difficult, it would be possible to refinance a large proportion with longer maturity Eurobonds, which all eurozone countries would underwrite.
According to Bernanke’s “debt deflation” theory, the collapse in consumer prices was one of the causes of the Great Depression, since deflation raised the real value of debts, making it difficult to repay loans.
The demonstrators want to free the poorest nations from unbearable and crushing debts.
Yes, lets cancel those debts but lets get in exchange better governance rather than a no-ties write off that only worsens the credit rating of poor countries, locking them out from investment and improved economies.
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