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This is a completely mundane and rational business decision, aimed at minimizing tax obligations.
If in two years the bank’s assets have a 50-50 chance of appreciating to $1.2 billion or declining to $0.8 billion, the bank will be able to raise new equity capital: new investors will be willing to pay for the prospect of sharing in the excess of the value of assets over obligations if things turn out well.
Any country can leave the EU – and, of course, the eurozone – when the burden of its obligations becomes too onerous.
As such, the debt burden woefully understates the obligations that Greeks have to each other (largely in the form of family obligations).
Must war be inevitable should Mr Blix announce that Iraq has failed to meet its obligations?
The best "serious consequences" of which the UN Security Council has warned should Iraq fail to comply with its obligations would be an even more intense effort to destroy its illicit weapons through continuous inspections of the country's offensive military capabilities: inspectors, not invaders.
Simply put, the stronger a country’s ability to generate additional national income, the greater its ability to meet debt obligations while maintaining and enhancing citizens’ standards of living.
While the expected revisions to Japan’s defense framework are a positive development, many Japanese still resent the lack of symmetry in the alliance obligations.
Disappointment was pervasive, with some of the former insurgent commanders publicly arguing that the regime was not honoring its obligations, and that the reconciliation process was a sham.
Violating its treaty obligations, Russia annexed Crimea and established separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.
Already, Michel Barnier, the EU’s lead Brexit negotiator, has presented the UK government with a €50 billion ($52 billion) bill to cover pensions and other obligations until 2030.
First, its member states are not all meeting their obligations, both to one another and according to international law.
Therefore, it must use all possible means to compel its members to abide by their international and European legal obligations.
Rather than agree on a fair division of costs, whether of the financial crisis or of welcoming refugees, governments try to minimize their obligations and shift them onto others – thereby increasing the collective costs.
From overfishing and piracy to the possible degradation of carbon sinks, the need for governments to fulfill both obligations has never been greater.
Until recently, IMF rescue programs were designed to enable debtor countries to meet their obligations.
If no lender of last resort ensures that credit is available at or below 10%, Brazil cannot be expected to meet its obligations - dealing a terrible blow both to Brazil and the international financial system.
By contrast, Western governments were wary of this perspective, which they feared would hamper free-market practices, impose overly cumbersome financial obligations, or both.
What started with subprime mortgages spread to all collateralized debt obligations, endangered municipal and mortgage insurance and reinsurance companies and threatened to unravel the multi-trillion-dollar credit default swap market.
The government will find it impossible to fulfill basic obligations, such as paying salaries and pensions, and the country will formally default.
Confronting questions of human rights requires that one consider context, in order to balance the rights and obligations of inhabitants of increasingly diverse societies.
These obligations place real limits on the Italian authorities’ macroeconomic policy choices.
Meanwhile, protesters across Europe have called for a clampdown on Uber’s ride-sharing service and restrictions on Airbnb’s apartment-sharing service, and the French Senate is considering “search neutrality” obligations.
For the past century or two, the nation-state has been the imagined community that people are willing to die for, and most leaders have regarded their primary obligations to be national.
Good leaders today are often caught between their cosmopolitan inclinations and their more traditional obligations to the people who elect them – as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has discovered in the wake of her brave leadership on the refugee crisis last summer.
On the right, it is viewed as a means to demolish complex welfare bureaucracies while recognizing the need for some social transfer obligations in a way that doesn’t weaken incentives significantly.
Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs, mainly tied to mortgages) made a new population of aspiring homeowners supposedly creditworthy by enabling the originating banks to sell “sub-prime” debt to other investors.
Moreover, unlike in a traditional international treaty, the obligations of the Paris agreement are not fixed.
Yet the 195 signatories to the Paris agreement created a non-binding system for raising their individual obligations every five years.
The historic job of international lawyers and tribunals has been to determine whether a signatory to an international agreement is complying with its obligations.
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