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For starters, with access to such records, a citizen could make payments or donations that bypass the banking system and its embedded surveillance.
And there is potentially no limit to how ingenious people can become with regard to writing so-called smart contracts, which will trigger payments or other digital transactions (like sending protest messages) when particular events occur.
But mostly we will get new forms of competitive pressure on existing means of making payments.
Even in the US, state and local governments, and now the federal government, are cutting expenditure and reducing transfer payments.
Households and businesses are reluctant to finance long-term investments with short-term loans or with variable-interest-rate loans, because a jump in inflation would cause their interest payments to rise sharply.
Economists might respond by suggesting that mortgages, insurance contracts, and other agreements could be indexed to the price level, adjusting payments to the contemporary rate of inflation.
For officials who lose their jobs because they are discovered to have accepted bribes or other illicit payments would then be automatically punished by having to forfeit their earnings advantage.
Spending on transfer payments and/or nonmilitary purchases – which can become entrenched or be procured more cheaply from abroad (for example, solar panels and wind turbines, respectively, in America’s 2009 fiscal stimulus) – is also likely to yield only a small multiplier.
One key innovation has been multi-sided platforms like Alibaba, which, by providing access to production, logistics, distribution, and payments, challenge traditional business models – and with considerable success.
Technically speaking, the central pillar of the new debt agreement is a decade-long postponement of payments totaling €96.6 billion ($112.5 billion) that were due to begin in 2023.
Having already surged on account of Iran-related geopolitical concerns, they are altering American consumers’ behavior, weakening their confidence, aggravating the country’s payments imbalances, and further reducing policymakers’ flexibility.
By using the dollar to anchor prices and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate as the benchmark for the cost of capital, invoicing, payments, clearing, liquidity, and central-bank reserves all became more stable and reliable.
For example, in the US, the federal budget offsets a substantial part (estimated at 30-40%) of the differences in per capita income levels across states, because poorer states contribute less income tax, on average, and receive higher transfer payments.
Partial benefits could be paid to workers on short hours, rather than limiting payments to those who are fully unemployed.
The program would at least partly pay for itself, with additional payments to workers on short hours offset by lower unemployment (and thus lower payments to those who are completely without work).
How did an international chain of coffee shops position itself to play a major role in upending not just how payments are made but also the business model of established banks?
Traditionally, the operation of commodity markets – corn, pork bellies, silver, and the like – has been quite distant from retail payments in stores like Starbucks.
Keynes’s proposed solution to this problem was an international payments system that would force symmetric adjustment on both surplus and deficit countries.
And the bond markets will be much more nervous, meaning higher interest payments, which will widen the deficit further.
At present, export subsidies and support payments represent less than 1% of the European agricultural budget, and the EU has undertaken to eliminate them once it receives reciprocal undertakings from major food-exporting countries.
This attracts advertisers, whose payments fund investments in improved technology and added features.
To be sure, there has been some progress in the eurozone periphery in the last few years: fiscal deficits have been reduced, and some countries are now running primary budget surpluses (the fiscal balance excluding interest payments).
A basic plan would include, first and foremost, an extension of debt maturities, with interest payments on the Greek debt lowered, kept constant, or written off, depending on Greece's progress on reforms and, ultimately, on its economic performance.
If the negotiations are to succeed, all partners must be aware that reaching a compromise on debt payments and investment will likely be easier than finding common ground on structural reforms.
These and other payments are in addition to the hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies that continue to flow to the fossil-fuel industry.
Moreover, employee social security payments are no longer a tax but an investment in retirement income, so that some workers are leaving the black economy for the legal sector.
Its lack of legacy systems has already enabled it to leapfrog the West in areas such as digital payments, the sharing economy (dockless bicycles are sweeping the world), and e-commerce.
As countries come under pressure to make payments, multiple emerging-market debt crises are likely.
Before the crisis hit, however, redistribution of wealth (and the tax and social security payments that make it possible) was considered the biggest obstacle to economic efficiency.
Indeed, with a large shock, much of the breach happens automatically, as tax revenues shrink and social-insurance payments expand.
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