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They received hardly any interest on their assets, and their interest losses on loans to Southern Europe piled up to several hundred billion euros.
The FCIC Republicans point the finger firmly at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and other government-sponsored enterprises that supported housing loans by providing guarantees of various kinds.
When the canal-building boom ended, eight states and the Territory of Florida (accounting for about 10% of the entire US population at the time) were unable to service their debt and defaulted on their, mostly British, loans.
That is no doubt part of the problem; but the underlying problem is that financial markets made some very bad loans.
There was a housing bubble, and loans were made on the basis of inflated prices.
The bad loans, in turn, have created massive holes in banks’ balance sheets, which have to be repaired.
Its loans and grants to Africa have now surpassed those made by the World Bank.
But when they generated losses – for example, in the 1990s – the banks were left with huge amounts of non-performing loans.
China’s government under Premier Zhu Rongji attempted to resolve the debt problem by putting the SOEs’ bad loans into four state-owned asset-management companies, and most of the small and medium-size loss-making SOEs were privatized.
The difference is particularly marked in the eurozone, where two-thirds of non-financial firms’ external financing comes from bank loans.
To be sure, the financial crisis had different catalysts in different countries, including subprime loans, real-estate bubbles, sovereign debt, and economic downturns that affected small and medium-size enterprises.
They shunted aside micro-level data that showed that there was in fact excess capacity, just as they ignored a World Bank analysis showing that fresh IMF loans would not restore economic growth, but would only leave the country deeper in debt.
The higher interest rates would also apply to corporate bonds and bank loans, weakening business investment.
A record-low level of deposits and the recession-related rise of non-performing loans have weakened Greek banks’ capital position further.
For bank loans, the ratio is almost two to one; for long-term financing, it may reach as high as ten to one.)
The assumptions about primary surpluses, private-sector involvement, and GDP growth underlying the government’s commitment to reduce its debt level, which currently exceeds 170% of GDP, to 124% of GDP by 2020 cannot be realized, given Germany’s opposition to restructuring the official financing that replaced the defaulted private loans.
The procedural shortcuts, incomplete documentation, and rampant fraud that accompanied banks’ rush to generate millions of bad loans during the housing bubble has, however, complicated the process of cleaning up the ensuing mess.
It was widely known that banks and mortgage companies were engaged in predatory lending practices, taking advantage of the least educated and most financially uninformed to make loans that maximized fees and imposed enormous risks on the borrowers.
That knowledge should have given lenders incentives to make loans only to those who could repay.
But lenders perhaps knew that, with the Republicans in control of government, they could make bad loans and then change the law to ensure that they could squeeze the poor.
With regard to the first, emergency funds ought to be used to recapitalize the banking systems, as well as to provide loans to sovereign states.
By enabling financial institutions to grant more loans at more favorable rates, small and medium-sized businesses will have the means to grow and prosper.
Maintaining low interest rates for private bank loans has been one of the main arguments for reducing budget deficits.
Graduates going into mortgage banking are faced with a different, but equally vital, challenge: to design new, more flexible loans that will better help homeowners to weather the kind of economic turbulence that has buried millions of people today in debt.
Their cost-base is, after all, the highest in the advanced world, yet their profitability is among the lowest, despite their negligible burden of bad loans.
This then leads to more bad assets and non-performing loans, more excessive investment in real estate, infrastructure, and industrial capacity, and more public and private debt.
The 1932 default on Britain’s WWI loans from America remains the largest blemish on the UK’s debt history, but the background is crucial.
The IMF was given a privileged legal position, and only devastated and wrecked "failed states" such as Sudan would default on loans from the Fund.
“There would be a decrease in economic value added from intermediation,” and loans to small and medium-size enterprises would be badly affected.
Though the IMF is supposed to have seniority over other creditors, there will be demands to write down a share of the loans that it has issued.
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