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But Fisher quite explicitly identified the absence of interest payments on deficits financed by permanent monetary expansion as one of the benefits of 100% reserve banking and OMF.
Strides have already been made in a number of areas, from electronic voter registration to electronic payments for civil servants.
Another factor working against RMB depreciation is that deterioration in China’s balance of payments may not improve China's international competitiveness.
Despite the International Monetary Fund’s mea culpa for underestimating the short-run adverse effects of fiscal austerity on European growth, over the longer term, Fund studies make clear, “reducing government debt is likely to raise output, as real interest rates decline and the lighter burden of interest payments permits cuts to distortionary taxes.”
The Weimar Republic had incurred huge deficits, owing in part to meet reparations payments mandated by the Treaty of Versailles, but it was unable to borrow, so the central bank printed money.
World leaders need to recognize that today’s populist revolts are being fueled by a sense of lost dignity – a sentiment that does not factor into most policymakers’ prescription for economic growth and compensatory payments.
In West Africa, a simple money transfer operator now handles 70% of official payments and also imposes exclusivity on banks.
Allowing more informal financial institutions to channel foreign payments would ease the money flow to remote regions.
The one billion Chinese who use their smartphones to make mobile payments now enjoy direct access to all kinds of consumer products that enhance their lifestyles.
Between 1973 and 1979, royalties and other payments for disembodied technology were often less than one-thousandth of GDP.
Even if all profits from direct foreign investment in South Korea are counted as payments for knowledge, the total is still less that 1.5% of the increase in the country's GDP.
Greece is refusing to acquiesce to demands by its creditors that it cut payments to the elderly and raise the value-added tax on their medicine and electricity.
It has also requested that interest payments be linked to economic growth.
The actions of central banks have always been “fiscal policy” in a very real sense, simply because their interventions alter the present value of future government principal and interest payments.
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pointed out, though Europe is home to just 7% of the world’s population and produces 25% of the world’s wealth, it accounts for 50% of global welfare payments.
When the United States is included, 11.5% of the global population receives 88% of the world’s welfare payments.
Even Latin America has a major innovative domestic e-commerce player (Mercado Libre) and a digital payments system (Mercado Pago).
In mobile online payments systems, China is in the lead.
With much of the country’s population having shifted directly from cash to mobile online payments – skipping checks and credit cards – China’s payments systems are robust.
Earlier this month on Singles’ Day, an annual festival of youth-oriented consumption that has become the single largest shopping event in the world, China’s leading online payment platform, Alipay, processed up to 256,000 payments per second, using a robust cloud computing architecture.
Moreover, disposable personal income rose in the first quarter only because of a massive jump in tax rebates and government pension payments.
The anomaly of rising consumption driven only by tax rebates and social-welfare payments ended in March, when consumer spending declined in response to lower employment and falling labor incomes.
Public consumption is just as progressive as transfer payments.
The strategy worked;Argentina has avoided making any payments to its creditors.
With almost 50% of returning troops eligible to receive some level of disability payment, and more than 600,000 treated so far in veterans’ medical facilities, we now estimate that future disability payments and health-care costs will total $600-900 billion.
This might seem like a strange idea in the immediate aftermath of a major debt-fueled financial crisis, and with many homeowners still underwater on their mortgages (they owe more than the house is worth, even if they can still afford the monthly payments).
In other words, if you fail to make your payments on time, the lender can foreclose on the loan and take possession of the property – as millions of homeowners have experienced in the last decade.
If the company cannot make its interest payments, its assets will need to be sold or its activities otherwise scaled back.
The US tax code allows interest payments to be deducted as a business expense; there is no equivalent allowance for payments to equity investors.
But it is also possible that the PBOC has used China’s foreign-exchange reserves, without updating the published balance of payments accordingly.
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