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And when paired with other data about us (financial, professional, and social), our biometrics can be fed into algorithms and used to deny us loans, health insurance, and jobs, guess our sexuality or political preferences, and predict our likelihood to commit crimes — entirely without our knowledge.
The second big challenge that the IMF identifies – excess capacity in the eurozone banking system, and the related problem of non-performing
loans
– is also, in principle, solvable.
At the same time, expansionary fiscal policy increased effective demand, while the government, backed by its strong public-finance position, was able to tackle nonperforming
loans
effectively, thereby increasing commercial banks’ willingness to lend and firms’ ability to borrow.
In order to target these subsidies to low-income households, governments typically treat families of different income levels differently: the rich must fend for themselves, middle-class families are provided with assistance to secure mortgage loans, and the poor are offered public housing.
It would be absurd if Ukraine were to slide into a financial crisis because the EU could not agree on how to raise the funds to prevent it.The way to avoid that outcome is to adjust one of the EU’s two instruments for non-eurozone members to meet Ukraine’s needs: The Macro-Financial Assistance scheme, a versatile instrument that can combine
loans
and direct subsidies; or the balance-of-payments assistance facility, which could complement an IMF program to EU countries.
The way to avoid that outcome is to adjust one of the EU’s two instruments for non-eurozone members to meet Ukraine’s needs: The Macro-Financial Assistance scheme, a versatile instrument that can combine
loans
and direct subsidies; or the balance-of-payments assistance facility, which could complement an IMF program to EU countries.
The subsequent burst of the housing bubble in the United States caused banks to fail, because banking had gone global and the big banks held one another’s bad
loans.
Those who believe that all was fine with the pre-crisis economy except for banks making crazy
loans
are convinced that preventing such crises in the future requires only banking reform.
But state-to-state
loans
usually include conditions that are less transparent than those attached to funds from rules-based international financial institutions.
Even US President Franklin Roosevelt jovially slapped his thigh when Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht told him that Nazi Germany would default on its external loans, including those owed to American banks, exclaiming, “Serves the Wall Street bankers right!”
Bank
loans
from the US were plentiful, and countries like Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay were growing fast.
Instead, the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) provided emergency
loans
to commercial banks.
After all, the ECB has stood by for more than two years, never making a move to stop the CBC from providing such emergency
loans
– just as it has held back from intervening in any other eurozone country whose central bank was providing emergency
loans.
Up to €89 billion in such
loans
is currently outstanding.
Scandalously, the CBC’s emergency
loans
will receive special treatment in the debt restructuring process.
There were recoveries in 1995-1996 and again in 2000 and 2010; but they tended to be cut short by the failure to write down bad debt (the so-called zombie loans), several premature policy reversals, and an increasingly unsustainable accumulation of government debt.
In Europe, the high level of non-performing
loans
continues to act as a drag on economic growth, by inhibiting new credit creation.
While LGFVs use the low-cost
loans
to build infrastructure, the social returns of those investments are often low; and, after decades of rapid infrastructure construction, the marginal returns are declining.
In some cases, banks have no choice but to lend to failing SOEs; their provincial government may demand that they provide large low-cost
loans
to a struggling and unproductive firm, particularly if it contributes significantly to local fiscal revenue and employment.
From May 2010, this insolvency was addressed by means of sequential extend-and-pretend
loans
on conditions that were guaranteed to shrink national income, investment, and credit.
Without debt restructuring, a low target for the primary budget surplus (net of debt payments), a “bad bank” to deal with non-performing loans, and a comprehensive reform agenda that tackles the worst cases of rent seeking, Greece is condemned to permanent depression.
Somalia got state-of-the-art weaponry, liberally financed by
loans.
Last Fall when the Western Governments and the IMF sponsored more than $100 billion in bailout
loans
to Asia, the hope was for a quick rebound.
The banks made large
loans
to undercapitalized enterprises, which were thereby able to expand rapidly despite a shortage of equity capital.
Asian banks had to demand the repayment of
loans
from industrial borrowers, so that the banks could pay off their own foreign creditors.
Heavily indebted Asian enterprises didn’t have the cash to repay their loans, since the
loans
had been sunk into new factories, real estate, and other long-term ventures.
Bad
loans
worsened the balance sheets of the Asian banks.
These in turn caused the banks to demand repayments of even more
loans
from enterprises, which caused even more enterprises to fall into bankruptcy.
The bank balance sheets are in miserable shape, since many bank
loans
have gone bad.
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