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Most are seeking ways to contain public indebtedness, trim deficits, and cut spending without making their poorer citizens worse off.
But, in the end, there are only three ways to secure additional financing for development aid or debt relief: higher taxes, increased indebtedness (that is, higher taxes for future generations), and/or monetary expansion.
If the marginal real interest rate is 1%, an increase in public investment would actually reduce future indebtedness.
The cost is also the increase in net federal government debt held by the private sector – the most accurate measure of true government indebtedness.
That way, each country could increase its indebtedness if it so chose, so long as its creditors were its own nationals.
Across virtually all the major indicators – including equity and housing price runs-ups, trade balance deficits, surges in government and household indebtedness, and pre-crisis growth trajectories – red lights are blinking for the US.
Moreover, countries with heavy short-term indebtedness risk their political autonomy.
Nor can it remain indifferent to the increasingly unacceptable indebtedness of its university students.
Likewise, there is also virtually no credit card debt in Germany, or other reasons for US-style household indebtedness.
The result has been increased indebtedness in many countries, as the collapse of GDP undermined government revenues.
Yet the financial crisis and the ensuing recession go only so far towards explaining these high levels of indebtedness.
If these two points are not confronted, debt forgiveness will end up laying the foundations for a new cycle of indebtedness, corruption, and abiding poverty.
Even if Cyprus were to come up empty in the 11 unexplored blocks off its southern coast, the Aphrodite field contains more than enough energy reserves to cover the country’s short-term indebtedness.
OPEC countries grew rich, while the rest of the developing world struggled with unsustainable trade deficits and indebtedness.
What is required is to give individuals with excessive indebtedness an expedited way to a fresh start – for example, a special bankruptcy provision allowing them to recover, say, 75% of the equity they originally put into the house, with the lenders bearing the cost.
Likewise, we must move far more quickly towards market-driven currency valuations around the world – and towards addressing the massive indebtedness of many developed countries.
First, the scale of the debt burden built up over close to 20 years of conflict was monumental, amounting to more than $4 billion – three to four times the level of indebtedness relative to income of the most severely indebted European countries currently facing difficulties.
Much poorer countries, and those routinely criticized by eurozone policymakers for their indebtedness (such as the US and the UK), should provide support to a wealthy creditor in order to prevent it from inflicting incalculable damage on the global economy.
The Washington Consensus starts by asking how big a budget surplus is needed in order to keep indebtedness within bounds; the higher the interest rates, the bigger the required surplus.
More than 30 researchers, including Nobel laureate Finn Kydland, examined a host of local issues ranging from the indebtedness of ultra-poor farmers to educational quality, tuberculosis rates, and adolescent mental health.
Many major middle-income countries have paid down much of their debt over the last decade, attaining indebtedness ratios far below those of advanced economies.
But excessive indebtedness and losses on the risky investments that had been made triggered the global financial crisis and led to the failure, or near-failure, of many major financial institutions.
In advanced markets, these stem largely from a declining and aging population, labor-market rigidities, an unaffordable welfare state, high and distorting taxes, and government indebtedness.
Local governments’ indebtedness soared, and fixed investment surged toward an unprecedented 50% of GDP.
And, given Japan’s high level of public indebtedness, the risks of collateral damage and unintended consequences are potentially higher.
They should also be encouraging an open debate on whether attacking indebtedness through austerity in fact risks delaying uncompetitive eurozone countries’ efforts to reform and modernize.
What is needed, in particular, is simultaneous progress on pro-growth structural reforms, better demand management, addressing pockets of excessive indebtedness, and improving regional and global policy frameworks.
Anemic growth, deflationary forces, and pockets of excessive indebtedness will hamper investment, tilting the balance of risk to the downside.
Lenin may have gotten the underlying analysis wrong, but today we know that his conclusion may have been right for another reason: financial capitalism forces a country into unsustainable indebtedness.
Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have the ability to lower the risk of instability by implementing structural reforms, ensuring more balanced aggregate demand, removing pockets of excessive indebtedness, and smoothing out the mechanisms of multilateral and regional governance.
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