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While that would not turn the wealthy into losers (they would still be wealthy), one cannot deny that they would incur a loss.
Despite whatever pain we incur, we must maintain – and, if necessary, deepen – sanctions against Russia and reinforce NATO’s front line.
From the perspective of companies, partnership is unattractive when they are forced to incur large losses owing to project disruptions and contract renegotiations.
For example, firms may use earnings held abroad as collateral to take on more debt and incur higher borrowing costs at home.
Their market power has increased, yet they know they incur no risk, owing to the aggravated systemic impact of their potential bankruptcy.
Of course, the crypto-cartels would counter that customers who incur the cost of buying a token will benefit if that token appreciates in value.
This is not to minimize the costs that specific European and Chinese companies may incur as the US market becomes more closed.
In other words, rather than spurring increased trade overall, regional agreements may primarily divert it: trade increases among participating countries, to their benefit, but declines for third parties, which incur (small) costs.
Given that more volatile economies are more likely to default at any given level of debt, they begin to incur financial-distress costs much earlier.
Even if supply chains were ultimately reconfigured, the US and Mexico would incur large costs – to both production and employment – during the transition period.
Indeed, a clear understanding of their priorities has often led central banks to incur losses when doing so is the price of avoiding deflation or preventing the exchange rate from becoming dangerously overvalued.
Central bankers are praised softly when they make profits and criticized loudly when they incur losses.
The people pay these costs, so their representatives should decide whether to incur them.
By contrast, the US has an “asymmetric” form of government, which allows many overlapping government entities – 7,000 in California alone – to incur debts, hire and fire employees, and impose taxes.
And, no matter where they are, firms, governments, and households will incur higher costs.
Senior officers surely know the risks that they will incur if they order these men to fire on friends and relatives.
More Skin in the Game in 2013NEW YORK – Those who have the upside are not necessarily those who incur the downside.
Every ton of carbon dioxide that is emitted into the atmosphere by burning coal, oil, or gas adds to long-term global warming, and therefore to the long-term costs that society will incur through droughts, floods, heat waves, extreme storms, and rising sea levels.
The US has the highest statutory corporate tax rate among developed countries and is the only G-7 country clinging to an outmoded worldwide tax system under which the foreign profits earned by US-headquartered companies incur additional domestic taxes when they are repatriated.
Above all, the US must demonstrate that cyber attacks and manipulation of social media will incur costs and thus not remain the perfect weapon for warfare below the level of armed conflict.
As Shahien Nasiripour, one of the best reporters on this issue, dryly put it: “None of the five lenders have said they expect to incur a material charge due to the settlement.”
When the Fed buys US government bonds, it does not incur any credit risk, but it is assuming interest-rate risk.
For other projects, such as the development of major tourism areas, the government must incur significant pre-investment and public infrastructure costs if it is to make them bankable.
Governments that lose those lawsuits will be obliged to compensate foreign investors; but even those that win will incur high legal costs.
During that time, governments will face severe challenges in managing public expenditures, and they will incur unforeseen costs related to off-book commitments and excessive debt, raising the possibility of a default on all credit commitments.
The creditor countries, by contrast, would incur losses on their claims and investments denominated in euros and encounter stiffer competition at home from other eurozone members.
A simple way to reduce the frequency of crises is to require banks to rely more on equity and less on debt so that they can incur more losses without going bankrupt – a measure that is currently being considered at the global level.
Were it to incur the wrath of either power – or of both at the same time – its long economic honeymoon would probably come to an end.
As the outbreak in Europe worsened, nine heads of eurozone governments called for the issuance of “coronabonds” to help spread more evenly across Europe the additional debt governments will incur as they struggle to replace disappearing private incomes.
These protesters and politicians get a lot of attention, but their proposals would incur far higher costs than almost any electorate is willing to pay.
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