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When a large financial institution is insolvent, the IMF should take it over, guaranteeing its short-term obligations, but wiping out the shareholders and repaying the long-term creditors only after all the other creditors (including the IMF itself) are repaid.
Initially a financial crisis, it morphed into a classic public-debt crisis after governments stepped in to guarantee banks obligations.
Despite efforts to cut expenditures and boost tax receipts, current and prospective obligations (including pension liabilities) far exceed any feasible increase in government revenues.
Stories that seek to preserve the singular benefits of global integration, while limiting shared obligations, may in fact go “viral” domestically, because citizens yearn for responsive leadership that addresses local and national concerns.
This “money-for-influence” model of governance indirectly impairs the IMF’s capacity to criticize the economies of its most important members (let alone police compliance with their obligations).
Such conditions do not yet exist in a world where undemocratic states cheat on legal obligations.
But it is also important to remember that obligations of non-proliferation bind nuclear weapons states as well.
Macroeconomic stability refers to the absence of inflation, budget balance, a realistic value for the exchange rate, the ability of businesses and government to obtain market loans, and high confidence that government financial obligations will be honored.
In order to meet his obligations to the option holders if it occurs, he parks the $100 million in one-year US Treasury bills yielding 4%.
Commercial arbitration – and courts’ obligations to enforce the arbitrators’ decisions – can assure investors, even if the courts generally do not.
And states must take more seriously their obligations to remedy violations before cases reach Strasbourg.
The money came largely from selling mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations, claims against claims against American homeowners (or to be precise, only against the homes themselves, as the owners were protected by the non-recourse nature of loans).
Even local initiatives, which are increasingly important for addressing the problem, must fit into a framework of converging global policies and obligations.
As for the Huawei case, if it turned out that the company did indeed violate contractual obligations not to transfer US technology to Iran, then it is only reasonable that there should be consequences.
Voting budgets in parliament – a representative institution – ensured that the people as a whole were liable for the obligations incurred by their government.
Despite the ambiguity about NATO membership that registered in opinion polls in my country, the citizens of the Czech Republic are fully aware of these threats and the obligations that NATO membership imposes as to their part in the joint responsibility for preventing or combating them.
A special report on semiconductors – essential to US national security and economic competitiveness – for President Barack’s Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) provides some answers.The report, written by a nonpartisan group of business and academic leaders (I was a member), proposed that the US work with its allies to enforce international law, push China to comply with its World Trade Organization obligations, and strengthen export controls and inward investment restrictions.
The report, written by a nonpartisan group of business and academic leaders (I was a member), proposed that the US work with its allies to enforce international law, push China to comply with its World Trade Organization obligations, and strengthen export controls and inward investment restrictions.
We do not have any illusions or high expectations, but a NATO that continues to expand without having the capabilities to meet the obligations to defend an enlarged treaty area runs the risk of becoming a hollow alliance.
Beyond the legal obligations of all signatories of the 1951 Refugee Convention, this is a test of humane values and decency – one that the so-called advanced countries are largely failing.
When some of these parties refused, the government backed down and financed AIG’s payment of all of its derivative obligations in full.
The US government felt that it had a weak hand, because it was not prepared to allow AIG to default on any of its obligations.
Although this unit was also a separate legal entity, AIG guaranteed its obligations toward derivative counterparties.
The insurance subsidiaries were not responsible for the obligations of their parent company, and their claims toward policyholders were backed by required reserves.
That, in turn, requires the sharing of obligations – for example, through common deposit insurance or an emergency backstop for systemically important financial institutions.
But, as the eurozone crisis clearly demonstrated, countries cannot enjoy the advantages of a common market unless they fulfill the necessary common obligations.
Given adverse demographics in the advanced world, slowing productivity, and rising pension obligations, it is very hard to know what the endgame of soaring debt would be.
The former underscore his administration’s commitment to meeting its obligations under the NPT, while the latter reassure the US Congress and allies skeptical of bold new approaches.
The administration describes these lower ceilings, and its pursuit of other arms control measures, as meeting America’s non-proliferation and disarmament obligations under the NPT.
It commits the US not to employ or threaten to employ nuclear weapons against states that do not possess them, provided that these countries remain in compliance with the NPT and their other nuclear non-proliferation obligations.
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