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Credit card companies now routinely charge the firms accepting credit card payments US$0.25 plus between two and three percent of the amount transferred per payment.

Through superior payments software, micropayments companies like Paypal (founded in 1998), Yaga (founded in 2000), Peppercoin (founded in 2001) and BitPass (founded in 2002) are able to offer much lower transaction costs than credit card companies, greatly expanding the number of transactions.

A French Cure for the Resource CurseNEW YORK – The campaign to ensure that companies engaged in extractive activities disclose all of their payments in their host countries is gaining momentum – and France is leading the effort.

The actual taxes and payments made by mining, oil, and other extractive-industry companies to governments are usually a well-kept secret, even though most of these governments claim to use the revenue for the public good.

Citizens everywhere must be assured that oil and gas firms, as well as mining companies, publish all of their relevant financial information, broken down by country and by project, and including all payments made to host-country public budgets.

The United States has already passed legislation requiring public disclosure of payments to governments, through the 2010 Dodd-Frank law.

If the EU were to require companies to publish detailed information regarding production and operational numbers, financial and accounting balances, and payments to authorities, companies would become truly accountable to citizens, and government revenues would be augmented.

This is an important advance, but, unfortunately, it is qualified by language that allows voluntary approaches as an alternative, and it focuses only on payments transparency.

Many people are uneasy about offering lump-sum cash payments.

With payments on Greece's official foreign debt amounting to only 1.5% of GDP, debt service is not the country's problem.

The last bailout program from the “troika" (the International Monetary Fund, the ECB, and the European Commission), initiated in 2010, foresees a primary budget surplus (which excludes interest payments) of 4% of GDP this year.

That would be slightly more than is needed to cover interest payments, and would thus allow Greece finally to begin to reduce its debt.

The practical problem for Greece now is not the sustainability of a debt that matures in 20-30 years and carries very low interest rates; the real issue is the few payments to the IMF and the ECB that fall due this year – payments that the new government has promised to make.

For many developers, the goal of achieving a cheaper, more secure payments mechanism has supplanted Bitcoin’s ambition of replacing dollars.

But it is an entirely different matter for governments to allow large-scale anonymous payments, which would make it extremely difficult to collect taxes or counter criminal activity.

The primary protection against poverty is earned income – for which even France’s generous unemployment benefits and other welfare payments are an inadequate substitute.

These favorable effects are directly relevant to balancing the primary adverse effects usually associated with a fiscal deficit: that government borrowing crowds out private capital formation; that higher interest payments generally require higher taxes or reductions in spending on defense and nondefense programs; that a budget deficit implies an unwanted increase in aggregate demand when the economy is at full employment; and that a higher debt ratio leaves less capacity for increased emergency government spending.

That is enough to cover the $60 billion in interest payments on the $1.5 trillion of extra debt, with money left over to increase government spending or reduce personal taxes.

Now Singapore has legalized payments to organ donors.

Officially, these payments are only for reimbursement of costs; payment of an amount that is an “undue inducement” remains prohibited.

Within the existing institutional framework, political responsibility for higher transfer payments among countries must remain with the national governments, controlled by national parliaments and electorates.

Attempting to compel transfer payments would generate moral hazard on the part of the recipients and resistance from the donors, with the resulting increase in tensions possibly jeopardizing the integration that has been achieved so far.

Some officials use their considerable discretion in granting licenses, permits, and contracts to solicit favors and side payments.

Existing labour laws (introduced after 1979) make it costly for employers to hire workers, who benefit from compulsory bonuses and generous severance payments.

The main demographic groups behind the anti-establishment upsurge have been people outside the workforce: pensioners, middle-aged homemakers, and men with low educational qualifications receiving disability payments.

The key reason is that several recent “reforms” announced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel – raising the value-added tax, increasing user charges for healthcare, and taxing interest payments as a part of so-called corporate tax reform – promise to reduce German economic growth, perhaps significantly, in 2007.

To put the country on a path toward public-debt sustainability, the country should be increasing its primary surplus (the difference between revenues and expenditures net of interest payments), to 3.5-4% of GDP, according to the Bank of Italy.

Manipulation of ideas and electoral processes by cash payments has a long history, and Hitler and Stalin were pioneers in radio attacks.

Their cash balances are extremely high, interest payments on debt are low, and principal obligations have been termed out.

Now, it looks like the primary deficit (which excludes interest payments) could reach 6% of GDP, with GDP falling by 4%.

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