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Indeed, some highly indebted firms’ capital chains may well rupture in the next two years, when they reach their peak period for debt repayment.
In the UK, no drop in precautionary savings can be counted upon (households are heavily indebted, so they need to save more, not less), and long-term interest rates are already very low.
To be sure, default risk among some heavily indebted countries, like Greece, turned out to be higher than expected.
This change is due, equally, to downgrades in the ratings of heavily indebted crisis countries’ government bonds, which make them unattractive for use in international transactions, and the inelasticity of other sources of supply.
With the US on the gold standard, the Treasury purchased gold to lift its price and thus augment the buying power of heavily indebted farmers.
But safer, less indebted banks are better able to continue lending without becoming distressed or needing support.
They were right: Venezuela is now the world’s most indebted country.
In fact, Germany has been bailing out the heavily indebted countries as a way of protecting its own banking system.
Countries cannot get overly indebted on their own: excessive borrowing by European governments required lenders who overlooked the fact that sovereign debt is in many ways similar to, and in some cases worse than, unsecured private debt or junk bonds.
Borrowing costs are rising for highly indebted sovereigns, credit rationing is undermining small and medium-size companies, and falling commodity prices are reducing exporting countries’ income.
A tight national credit policy, though potentially useful in some highly indebted areas, would impede such growth-enhancing activities in Foshan.
Back in January, the United Nations’ outlook for the global economy raised concerns about the economic pain this might impose on heavily indebted US households.
Moreover, China is pumping foreign investment into economies across Africa and South Asia, obtaining military bases and other geostrategic assets in return from its heavily indebted commercial partners.
The United States is not one of Europe’s heavily indebted countries, which must pay hefty premiums over the price at which Germany can borrow.
To help poorer countries gain independence from the IMF after years of dependency, the Meltzer commission recommended outright cancellation of the debts of the world’s poorest, highly indebted countries.
The upshot is that conventions to measure how indebted or how liquid a country is can be quite arbitrary.
The main problem is that the economy has a hard time “adjusting” to the precipitous drop in spending by indebted households when credit dries up, usually during banking crises.
In an earlier era, they became indebted to the pawnbroker; now they are indebted to banks or credit-card companies.
Just as lenders did not force money on the public before the crisis, so now they cannot force heavily indebted households to borrow, or businesses to seek loans to expand production when markets are flat or shrinking.
But heavily indebted companies in emerging markets may be an even greater danger.
It is important to note that indebted governments are both more and less vulnerable than private debtors.
Italy and Belgium, heavily indebted when the Euro was launched, could become the classic victims of a vicious circle, in which high deficits trigger rising interest rates, higher borrowing costs, even higher deficits, and eventually default.
Now these heavily indebted households cannot borrow and spend any more.
Clearly, improving indebted households’ ability to refinance at low current interest rates could help to reduce their debt burden, as would writing off some mortgage debt in cases where falling house prices have left borrowers deep underwater (that is, the outstanding mortgage exceeds the house’s value).
CAMBRIDGE: When poor, heavily indebted countries are struggling to make their way from dictatorship to democracy, the actions of rich countries can be decisive.
There is a close parallel between the euro crisis and the Latin American debt crisis of 1982, when the International Monetary Fund saved the international financial system by lending just enough money to the heavily indebted countries to enable them to avoid default.
There is a center, led by Germany, and a periphery, consisting of the heavily indebted countries.
The second channel through which risk and loss can spread from Greece is other heavily indebted countries, like Spain and Italy.
In any case, if a country is already too deeply indebted, it may find that no amount of realistic adjustment and financing is enough – the curse of what economists call the “debt overhang.”
For starters, public-sector investment is broadly below levels needed to restore and sustain growth, partly owing to fiscal constraints in overly indebted countries.
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