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Uncertainty about government contracts and various kinds of payments can have a broad impact on the economy.
As a result, a partial government shutdown is entirely possible, with the Republicans imposing a form of prioritization on government payments: some people will be paid what they are owed, and others will not.
In 2007-2008, it was homeowners who could not keep up with payments; now it is governments.
The free movement of payments, capital, and services associated with EU membership afforded Cyprus additional advantages.
The German dogma of “no payments without counter-performance and control” was thus off the table, and the bargain struck in the early hours of the morning was exactly the opposite of what she had wanted.
And government-issued money is hardly a pure social convention; governments pay employees and suppliers, and demand tax payments in fiat currency.
Without debt restructuring, a low target for the primary budget surplus (net of debt payments), a “bad bank” to deal with non-performing loans, and a comprehensive reform agenda that tackles the worst cases of rent seeking, Greece is condemned to permanent depression.
Early participants like Bolivia and Uganda are seeing their debt service payments fall by as much as 1% of GDP, providing scope for a substantial increase in health and education spending.
One example is “shared responsibility” mortgages, in which payments are reduced under certain circumstances, such as when home prices dip below the borrower’s purchase price.
Similarly, the continuous-workout mortgage adjusts payments and terms in specific cases, such as job loss.
But the renminbi’s share of international payments has slipped since then.
Because Brazil has some of the highest nominal and real interest rates in the world (interest payments on the public debt exceed 7% of GDP), snowballing debt dynamics are particularly tricky.
And spending so much on interest payments will leave Brazil’s government with few resources for much-needed infrastructure investments.
When Russia announced its suspension of payments on debt servicing, banks drew in their credits from other emerging markets around the world, especially countries with overvalued currencies and large bank debts.
Beyond the deductibility of home mortgage interest, borrowers are permitted to make down payments of as little as 5% (or even less) of the value of the house they buy, rather than the more standard 20%.
In the United Kingdom, for example, the Help to Buy initiative has subsidized home purchases with down payments of only 5%.
Reducing the income gap between old and new members would cut the transfer payments to be made by the Western countries to the East following the latter's eventual accession to the EU.
The rural poor in more and more of the world now have access to wireless banking and payments systems, such as Kenya’s famous M-PESA system, which allows money transfers through the phone.
And even after the market turmoil ended, and the PSPP brought interest rates down, high-debt countries last year still spent an average of around 3-4% of their GDP on interest payments.
And, by continuing to allow payments of tax arrears to be made in BE, while prescribing FE as a separate, harder currency uniquely able to extinguish commercial bank debt, Europe’s authorities acknowledged that Greece now has two euros.
Because the inflation rate is also about 2%, this implies a negative real interest rate, which is confirmed by the interest rate of -0.6% on ten-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), which adjust interest and principal payments for inflation.
The investor loses $31 on the price of the bond, or three times more than he had gained in higher interest payments.
When Leaders Are True to Their LiesHANOI – What does the Venezuelan domestic payments crisis have in common with the death of the North American Free Trade Agreement, announced by Wilbur Ross, US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the next US Secretary of Commerce?
The highest-denomination banknote, the 100-bolivar bill, which was worth $46.5 when it was introduced in 2008, fell to just $0.03, requiring mountains of bills to make small payments.
First, they unfairly benefit high flyers, who can receive up to twice as much in pension payments per £100 of contributions.
The second reason that a million US women have filed for bankruptcy is that legislation enacted in 2005 now pits individual women – who can’t afford costly legal advice – against credit-card companies in terms of who gets paid first when ex-husbands owe delinquent credit-card payments and child-support payments.
Including interest payments on past deficits, the tab for 2006 alone was over $800 billion dollars – roughly 6.5% of US gross national product.
The new owners will then start to pump oil again from the same acreage, provided prices are above the marginal cost of production, which will now exclude any interest payments on loans that are written off.
But the United States is impeding this process by falling far behind in its obligatory payments to the UN peacekeeping budget, with total US arrears estimated at more than $500 million – and possibly exceeding $1 billion by the end of 2007.
Moreover, all of Greece’s structural problems – a thin tax base, large numbers of government employees who receive bonus payments, and generous pension benefits – cannot be sustained within the eurozone.
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