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This was the widely accepted approach toward German liability for the Holocaust, and there are many who urge the same approach toward America's responsibility for slavery.
As everyone at the IMF knows, a debt overhang is a vast unfunded tax liability that says to investors: enter at your own risk.
And one can easily understand civil servants’ strong reluctance to disregard legal obligations and risk criminal liability for breach of trust.
Capital, in this context, is simply a synonym for equity, which is on the liability side of a bank’s (or anyone’s) balance sheet.
In all cases, adventurous users or professionals can overcome the paternalism, but only by paying what amounts to liability insurance, for the risks they impose on the system.
Executives collected generous bonuses, and equity holders were protected by limited liability.
The descriptive terms they used – “discordant,” “embarrassing,” “political liability” – suggest that they knew they were giving Mankiw a raw deal.
Such joint and several liability, the plaintiffs assert, contradicts the Court’s previous statements that Germany should not accept any financial commitments stemming from other states’ behavior.
Another approach would be to unleash the liability system.
The US, by contrast, taxes its MNCs’ worldwide income, with taxes paid elsewhere credited against their US tax liability to avoid double taxation.
As former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Frank Newman argued in a recent book, Freedom from National Debt, a country’s capacity for fiscal intervention is better assessed by examining its aggregate balance sheet than by the traditional method of comparing its debt (a liability) to its GDP (a flow).
There are limits in China’s socialist market economy, but they lie on the liability side of banks’ balance sheets, not on the asset side.
Though EU countries will not contribute any actual funds, they will provide implicit and explicit guarantees for the private investors, in an arrangement that looks suspiciously like the joint liability embodied by Eurobonds.
Making matters worse, only a fraction of the new borrowing enabled by the mutualization of liability will be factored into national budgets.
The economy is thus shaping up to be a serious liability for President Barack Obama, who is likely to place the blame on the conditions that he inherited from President George W. Bush, and on the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
To answer this question, one must recall that debt is both a liability and an asset.
At the international level, the Nuremberg model remains available to generate further trials, though under the dubious conditions that victorious powers sometimes impose liability for crimes, such as “crimes against humanity” that were are not properly defined at the time they are committed.
Henry Paulson is WrongCHICAGO – When a profitable company is hit by a very large liability, the solution is not to have the government buy its assets at inflated prices.
Such jobs are a liability for society, not an asset.
Unpredictability can provide a tactical advantage, but it is also a strategic liability.
The British Joint Stock Companies Act of 1856, for example, established the principle of limited liability for corporations.
Since winning the presidency, Hollande has won a parliamentary majority and pushed Germany toward accepting joint liability for eurozone countries’ debts.
As a result, the Indian public concluded that majority equity holders (“promoters”) had little skin in the game, and that “limited liability” really meant no liability at all.
For example, with a 10% tax, a company with $500 million of accumulated overseas earnings would incur a tax liability of $50 million, to be paid over ten years.
It could repatriate $500 million at any time with no additional tax liability.
But the FCTC’s work is not done, and governments are now pushing for legal liability to be a part of national-level corporate-accountability frameworks.
Underpinning the proposed reforms is the so-called “principle of unity of liability and control,” which demands that both the power to make decisions and liability for their consequences are kept at the same political level, be it national or supranational.
Transferring liability for foreign debt to Mubarak should not have negative economic consequences for Egypt in the long run.
The prohibition would be narrower, because it would apply only when children are possible: The Leipzig man whose case brought the issue to attention had a vasectomy in 2004, but that did not affect his criminal liability.
A loss incurred by the ECB on an OMT operation would create a fiscal liability for Germany (and others), with far-reaching political consequences.
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