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This relates directly to China’s debt problem: the continual rolling over of large liabilities creates a constant demand for liquidity, even if actual investment does not increase.
The sale or transfer of state-owned assets would cover liabilities, breaking the state sector out of its debt-ridden status quo.
Today, these assets and liabilities are all in euros.
Finally, it plans to renegotiate Greece’s debt with lenders, in the hope of writing off the bulk of its liabilities.
The new regime will take into account the debt/GDP ratio (removing Italy’s ability to maintain its outsize debt burden) and implicit liabilities (for example, a country with an oversized banking sector will have to confront potential rescue costs).
But in most cases, firms’ liabilities comprise real debt owed to major international banks.
Because everywhere I look, leaders are repositioning their economies to ensure that technological change and automation are assets rather than liabilities.
The issue is not just illiquidity – financial institutions with short-term liabilities and longer-term illiquid assets.
So the risk of something equivalent to a bank run for non-bank financial institutions, owing to their short-term liabilities and longer-term and illiquid assets, is rising – as recent runs on some banks (Northern Rock), money market funds, state investment funds, distressed hedge funds suggests.
It is an opportunity to begin developing the capacity at all levels to transform our economies into engines of growth and jobs that do not deplete our resources or create new liabilities that will be a drag on growth and human health for years to come.
The euro exists, and the global financial system’s assets and liabilities are so intermingled on the basis of the common currency that its collapse would cause a meltdown beyond the capacity of the German authorities – or any other – to contain.
Countries at the center used their central banks’ strong balance sheets to pump money into the system and to guarantee the liabilities of commercial banks, while governments engaged in deficit financing to stimulate the economy on an unprecedented scale.
In an ideal world, Europe would deal with its excessive debt burdens through a restructuring of Greek, Irish, and Portuguese liabilities, as well as municipal and bank debt in Spain.
We believe that with the right incentives, infrastructure can be an innovative and attractive asset class for those with long-term liabilities.
Private Wealth and European SolidarityCOLOGNE – A little-discussed but crucial factor in the debate over wealth transfers from Europe’s more economically sound north to its troubled south is the relationship between public debt, GDP, and private wealth (households’ financial and non-financial assets, minus their financial liabilities) – in particular, the ratio of private wealth to GDP in the eurozone countries.
Massive movements in exchange rates and asset prices are impossible unless a country has both a large current account deficit and large and liquid liabilities.
This created a two-speed Europe, with debtor countries sinking under the weight of their liabilities, and surplus countries forging ahead.
Many developing countries now have flexible exchange rates, and, by shifting to domestic sources of borrowing, they have reduced the currency mismatches associated with their liabilities.
Given the high economic costs of a banking crisis, governments are likely to take on the liabilities of their financial sector when a crisis hits – as recently occurred in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and in financial crises in Latin America and Asia in the 1990’s.
Unlike banks, they have long-dated liabilities, for which the long-term, predictable returns from infrastructure investments can be a good match.
The authors conclude that, by reducing the share of short-term foreign-currency debt in a country’s total liabilities, capital controls can reduce vulnerability to financial crises.
Today, the two largest Swiss banks are sinking in liabilities that exceed seven times the country’s income.
Germany did not seek to occupy a dominant position in Europe, and it is reluctant to accept the obligations and liabilities that such a position entails.
It is a mistake to look only at a country’s liabilities, and ignore its assets.
In short, the main part of Europe’s banking assets, liabilities, and risks are concentrated in these large banks.
As long as the interest rate at which a government borrows is less than the sum of inflation, labor-force growth, and labor-productivity growth, the amortization cost of extra liabilities will be negative.
We know that companies cannot change their total market value by changing the composition of liabilities (making some claims senior to others).
At the time, the United States commonwealth had about $70 billion in debt and another $50 billion or so in pension liabilities.
Yet, in 1915, the British, even in the face of an ongoing war, were unwilling to assume Russia’s liabilities.
Are security and political interests so overwhelming that they justify assuming large and unlimited liabilities incurred by political systems over which they have no control?
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