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Once finalized, this treaty will establish the rights and obligations of both parties on a range of issues, including the “Brexit bill” – that is, the UK’s outstanding liabilities from its time as a member of the bloc – as well as the rights of EU citizens living in the UK, and vice versa.
Consequently, the job of receiver, though it carries strict liabilities, is highly risky in terms of reward.
Private banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and so on have limited appetite for building up liquid dollar claims on foreigners when their own liabilities – deposits, insurance claims, and pension obligations – are denominated in renminbi.
That would mean higher taxes for all taxpayers, raising tax liabilities in 2011 and 2012 by about $450 billion (1.5% of GDP).
European policymakers must ensure that there is congruence between the power to make decisions and the liabilities associated with any decisions that are made.
The US should tell Germany – in the same no-nonsense terms that Germany used with Greece – that it cannot defer to the US for its security while undermining Western unity to protect its taxpayers from possible intra-eurozone liabilities.
Certainly, governments should not guarantee interbank liabilities that do not affect customer deposits.
Hamilton made the case that the federal government should assume responsibility for their liabilities stemming from the costs of financing the war.
Many centrists agree that an optimal fiscal policy would feature short-term stimulus, a multi-year medium-term deficit reduction plan, and measures to reduce long-term liabilities, especially if retrenchment protected growth-oriented public-sector investments.
Why such tinkering is appropriate on the asset side of the balance sheet, while liabilities remain unchanged, is not explained.
Systematic calculation and publication of cyclically adjusted fiscal indicators would help maintain discipline by promoting accountability, as would other improvements in transparency, especially regarding quasi-fiscal operations and the contingent liabilities of the government and public enterprises.
As more people work and earn more money, tax liabilities rise and eligibility for government benefits like unemployment insurance falls.
Investors, analysts, and other commentators, for their part, must take a more nuanced view of governments’ true debt liabilities.
At the onset of the crisis, a breakup of the euro was inconceivable: the assets and liabilities denominated in a common currency were so intermingled that a breakup would have led to an uncontrollable meltdown.
Simultaneously, banks gave preference to shedding assets outside their national borders, and risk managers try to match assets and liabilities at home, rather than within the eurozone as a whole.
This over-consumption had been financed (at least until now) by the government, and, as a consequence, most of the foreign debt comprised public-sector liabilities.
Many firms will be truly multinational, with headquarters located in one place (probably where tax liabilities can be minimized), production and sales happening largely elsewhere, and managers and workers sourced from all over the world.
The private sector had large foreign assets, while the government had about the same amount of foreign liabilities.
The United States is not alone in doing this, but its refusal to acknowledge the true magnitude of its old-age liabilities has left it facing perhaps the worst impending fiscal crisis of all the advanced countries.
The fiscal gap is the only legitimate measure of the condition of a nation’s public finances because it treats “official” and “unofficial” liabilities on the same basis.
In addition, it doesn’t ignore the positive – the current and future taxes available to cover these liabilities.
Throughout the world, standards for reporting national-accounts statistics focus attention on a linguistic construct, official debt, rather than on the economically meaningful infinite-horizon fiscal gap, where pension and health-care liabilities exact a heavy toll.
A rising tide of capital inflows -- not only direct, but also portfolio investment -- increases their foreign liabilities.
But, given such investors' long-term liabilities (claims and benefits), their mandate is to invest mostly in bonds, which are less risky than stocks or other volatile assets.
Had the goal been mere recovery of tax arrears, there would have been no need to break up the company: Yukos could have settled even these colossal liabilities on a civilized installment schedule.
Above all, liabilities have simply been shifted around the global economy, which cannot continue indefinitely.
The big, nontransparent, and dangerous subsidies are off-budget, contingent liabilities generated by government support for too-big-to-fail financial institutions.
When growth slowed sharply and credit flows collapsed in the wake of the Great Recession, budget revenues plummeted, governments were forced to socialize private-sector liabilities, and fiscal deficits and debt soared.
Balance sheets that had to be prepared in the local currency suddenly hemorrhaged equity as their liabilities increased.
A bank, at bottom, is something that (a) takes deposits, (b) provides loans, (c) pretends to its depositors that their money (its liabilities) are more liquid than its assets, (d) collects net interest as a result, and (e) gets away with it almost all the time.
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