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Yet in recent years, topics about which most people had never heard or cared – for example, securitization, credit default swaps, and the European payment system known as Target 2 – have imposed themselves on public debate, forcing ordinary people to grapple with their intricacies.
The appearance of virtue is an important source of a leader’s soft power or the ability to get what one wants by attraction rather than coercion or payment.
Machiavelli also stressed the importance of the hard power of coercion and payment when a leader faces a tradeoff with the soft power of attraction, “since being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself.”
The first is inertia, combined with (or disguised as) idealism – the mistaken idea that the Internet should be free not just for speech, but also from payment.
On August 21, Germany’s foreign minister, Heiko Maas, urged Europe to establish payment channels that are independent of the US.
The three criteria, he reminds us, are that a currency acts as a unit of account, a common means of payment, and a store of value.
Sometimes, Argentine negotiators respond to international bond owners, who harass the government in an effort to force payment on what cannot be paid.
The success of digital payment platforms, such as the M-Pesa mobile app in Kenya, demonstrates how quickly vulnerable clients will take up and use inexpensive products and services if they are designed with users’ needs in mind.
For Tigar, deleveraging has meant that banks that had pursued its business only a couple of years ago have suddenly cut lending – even though the company never missed a debt payment.
With new allocations of SDRs to emerging industrial powers like China, the SDR, based on a basket of currencies including the renminbi, could serve not only as a development tool, but also as a means of international payment to rival the US dollar.
Both Russia and Iran, for example, are selling oil to China and accepting payment in renminbi, in response to actual or potential sanctions imposed on them by the US.
It noted that “borrowers at risk of significant mortgage payment increases remained a small minority, concentrated mostly among higher-income households that were aware of the attendant risks,” and concluded that “indications are that credit and risk allocation mechanisms in the U.S. housing market have remained relatively efficient.”
This process of labor substitution and disintermediation has been underway for some time in service sectors – think of ATMs, online banking, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, mobile payment systems, and much more.
The mobility allowance could offer those moving for a new job a lump-sum payment of two months’ gross pay in the previous job, or four months’ pay for cross-border moves.
At some point, the dollar’s status as a global means of payment and reserve currency could be challenged.
If the US is too aggressive in its enforcement of secondary sanctions, other countries might either develop payment systems of their own or forbid their companies from doing further business with US firms.
But, increasingly, official financing is coming from the European Central Bank – first with bond purchases, and then with liquidity support to banks and the resulting buildup of balances within the eurozone’s Target2 payment system.
And, adding insult to injury, about half the payment goes to branches of foreign banks.
In an economy where several sectors are still shackled by pervasive regulations and controls, the payment of bribes in exchange for government permits can sometimes restore some semblance of a free market.
When some of these parties refused, the government backed down and financed AIG’s payment of all of its derivative obligations in full.
The Scotland Act of 2012, scheduled to come into effect in 2016, provides a down payment on this desired autonomy.
They also notice that the economy is imploding, while Iraq is calming down only because the US is paying insurgents and al-Qaeda sympathizers the equivalent of a monthly car payment per person not to kill its soldiers.
In a recent ad campaign, private power producers once again threatened to invoke them to secure payment of unpaid bills.
Meanwhile, adding to my anguish, the government delayed payment of our salaries – and not for the first time.
But it is becoming increasingly clear that bringing the debt burden in line with the distressed countries’ payment capacities requires, at least in some of them (particularly Greece again), an ordered process of debt restructuring.
Instead, place a portion of Luke’s equity in the farm in a public trust, which then provides a universal payment to everyone.
This will require, first and foremost, the adoption of new technologies, and even the provision of “digital public goods” like fast and reliable broadband Internet and digital payment solutions.
This will require not just the provision of digital public goods, but also an overhaul of the regulatory system, with Kenya – where a light-touch regulatory approach facilitated the rapid growth of the peer-to-peer payment system M-Pesa – offering a useful model.
About $10 billion of this debt has to be repaid in the fourth quarter of 2014, including a $7 billion payment on December 21 ($20 billion more will have to be repaid in 2015).
They issued stocks far below market prices to themselves, and transferred assets from one company to another without payment, stealing from the owners of the first company.
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