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Debt capital markets provide an important asset class for institutional investors, and give large corporations an alternative to bank
loans.
Although China's official growth rate reached 8% in 2002, its high budget deficit and large stock of non-performing
loans
(about 40% of GDP) mean that it cannot afford any slowdown if it is to keep people employed, especially in rural areas.
Think of direct purchases of stocks, high-risk corporate bonds, and banks’ bad
loans.
But banks were not lending the money made available to them, partly because they used it to pay down their own debts, and partly because of low demand for
loans.
It should simply mark a sea change, a break with the past five years of adding new
loans
on top of already unsustainable debt, conditional on further doses of punitive austerity.
The average cost of new
loans
to Greek enterprises and households is still only 6-7%.
There, borrowing costs for new
loans
shot higher than 40% when the financial crisis erupted.
Although car
loans
and student debt have been rising especially rapidly, housing debt remains more than two-thirds of the $12.7 trillion total.
The Dodd-Frank law wisely required banks and other mortgage originators to retain on their books at least 5% of the housing
loans
they made, rather than repackaging every last one for resale to others.
To be sure, President Vladimir Putin has outlined some important constraints on these potential sales: the government will not sell majority stakes; the deals cannot be financed by
loans
from state-owned banks; and the buyers cannot be registered outside of Russia’s jurisdiction.
Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatization of public assets, address the non-performing
loans
that are clogging the economy’s credit circuits, create a fully independent tax commission, and boost entrepreneurship.
We must also address banks’ non-performing
loans
so that their balance sheets have room for new lending.
Instead of distributing oil revenues through a program of low-cost loans, as promised, the government has been forced to ration gasoline, as economic promise has given way to crisis.
The eurozone authorities thus permitted Greek banks to deny their customers the right to repay
loans
or mortgages in BE, thereby boosting the effective BE-FE exchange rate.
The US Treasury welcomed government intervention in exchange rate markets, and encouraged the IMF to support such interventions with mega-billion dollar
loans
to crisis countries.
But this Chinese FDI is bundled together with concessional loans, and there is much double-counting, with the same ventures being recorded both as aid flows and as inflows of FDI.
Given the heavy volume of concessionary
loans
provided by China, concern about African countries’ future debt burden is growing.
In the late 1980s, falling GDP growth (the annual per capita rate reached a low of 2% in 1989) and a rising volume of non-performing
loans
(NPLs) fueled expectations of an economic implosion.
Moreover, Xi announced that China will issue $55 billion in
loans
to the Middle East, including a $15 billion special loan for industrialization, $10 billion in commercial
loans
to boost production capacity, and $10 billion in concessional
loans.
But the Bank also provides grants and low-interest
loans
to the poorest countries, particularly for education and health, and advises these countries on development strategies.
Developing countries in Latin America and East Asia were growing, although they depended increasingly on a drip feed of foreign
loans
from money-center banks.
They can also, it adds, obtain unsecured bank
loans
for themselves and their friends.
After all, bailouts from the EU and the IMF are only a temporizing measure: even sweetheart loans, after all, eventually must be repaid.
My latest estimates are $3.6 trillion in losses for
loans
and securities issued by US institutions, and $1 trillion for the rest of the world.
The new owners will then start to pump oil again from the same acreage, provided prices are above the marginal cost of production, which will now exclude any interest payments on
loans
that are written off.
The proceeds were then invested in Greek government bonds and
loans
to Greek companies.
The plan operates through a new finance facility, which will attract $2 billion in guarantees from donor countries and secure an additional $8 billion in
loans
from the multilateral development banks.
Thus, neo-Keynesians have tried to spur more housing investment through rock-bottom interest rates, more auto purchases through securitized consumer loans, and more “shovel-ready” infrastructure projects through short-term stimulus programs.
The "donors" do not cut off aid flows because they know that their past
loans
would fall into default if new money is not delivered to the countries to repay the old debts!
And since a lot of the aid is in the form of
loans
rather than grants, the poor countries get even deeper into debt as they are encouraged to purchase supplies, products, and technical assistance from the rich countries.
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