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Recent World Bank
loans
are similarly conditioned, in part, on “fiscal discipline.”
This more challenging scenario of anemic recovery undermines hopes for a V-shaped recovery, as low growth and deflationary pressures constrain earnings and profit margins, and as unemployment rates above 10% in most advanced economies cause financial shocks to re-emerge, owing to mounting losses for banks’ and financial institutions’ portfolios of
loans
and toxic assets.
But about two-thirds of the private-sector debt that is defined as bank
loans
and corporate bonds is actually held by state-owned enterprises and local-government entities.
And so, in late 2008, the way forward seemed obvious: recapitalize the banks, guarantee loans, use the government-backed housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to resolve underwater mortgages, drop short-term interest rates to zero and use quantitative easing to prevent deflation or dangerously low inflation, and embrace deficit spending.
Money used by commercial banks to satisfy the RRR, which is held in accounts at the PBC, can no longer be extended as
loans.
Only recently, China was still taking European “development”
loans.
Indeed, Beijing Airport’s’s shiny Terminal 3, and more recently, China’s alternative-energy investments, relied on billions of euros in European public
loans.
In August alone, Italy’s central bank drew €40 billion in Target credit, and it probably drew roughly another €50 billion in September, when the Bundesbank’s Target
loans
to the ECB system increased by €59 billion (after a €47-billion hike in August).
For them, a federal funds rate (the interest rate that banks charge each other for overnight
loans
of their reserves held at the Fed) of 5% seems as fantastic as a unicorn.
But the steep fall in the value of Italian and Spanish banks’ holdings of government debt, combined with mounting bad
loans
as a result of recessions exacerbated by punitive borrowing costs, is forcing the banks to rein in business lending further.
When the crisis erupted, companies and investors in the United States were lending their extra cash overnight to banks and other financial firms, which then had to repay the loans, plus interest, the following morning.
In the face of a housing crisis, it is plausible that lenders would again panic, deciding that they cannot depend on untested processes to stabilize the banks and withdrawing their overnight
loans.
The grim irony here is that, prior to such a shock, preparing for restructuring encourages lenders to provide more overnight
loans.
If nothing nasty happens – losses on mortgages, commercial real estate, business loans, and credit cards – the banks might just be able to make it through without another crisis.
Loans
from western governments to the Soviet Union are at issue.
Soviet central planning could not secure a proper return on those
loans
- and indeed on all investment, which was a primary reason for the USSR’s collapse.
Paris Club
loans
were made by government export credit agencies, which underwrite foreign purchases of their countries’ capital goods and other products.
Property markets in Austria, Germany, and Luxembourg have practically exploded throughout the crisis, as a result of banks chasing borrowers with offers of
loans
at near-zero interest rates, regardless of their creditworthiness.
And the European Central Bank will also blithely continue its bailout policy in terms of giving
loans
to the eurozone’s troubled members and purchasing their government bonds.
For the first time in its history, the Fund might have to take a significant “haircut” on its loans, and it will have to prepare its non-European shareholders for it.
Today, China’s business cycle has led to the accumulation of non-performing
loans
(NPLs) in the corporate sector, just as it did at the turn of the century.
In 1999, it established four asset-management companies (AMCs) to take on the weakest
loans
of the four largest state-owned banks, thereby improving those banks’ financial stability.
The Bank’s
loans
targeting governance and related areas now amount to roughly $4.5 billion, or almost 20% of total lending.
Because Russia, just like many other doubtful borrowers, could only get short term loans, its financing was highly precarious.
A final proposal, which the World Bank is assessing, is the issuance of debt against the projected reflows of international development assistance
loans.
With repayments of IDA
loans
to the World Bank set to exceed $150 billion over the next 15 years, this could generate significant new social investment from the Bank.
At this point, Greece’s central-bank governor (who had triggered the original bank run in December 2014) publicly alleged that our government’s stance until June 2015 caused the loss of €45 billion worth of deposits, the ensuing bank closures, and the new extend-and-pretend
loans.
Though its problems are more acute for some countries and financial institutions, the sector runs on a level of profitability that is, on average, lower than its cost of equity and maintains a stock of non-performing
loans
and hard-to-value assets large enough to undermine its capitalization for years to come.
Since 2007, EU countries have provided in excess of €675 billion ($757 billion) in capital and repayable loans, along with €1.3 trillion in guarantees, to financial institutions in distress, so the desire to limit bailouts is understandable.
Second, once freed of their non-performing loans, banks would need to undertake precautionary recapitalizations, including the bail-in of subordinated bondholders and the immediate compensation of retail investors.
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