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Of course, compensation payments and fees for government guarantees are being levied on banks participating in taxpayer-funded stabilization schemes.
The price of the insurance would have to be adjusted regularly to adjust for varying public knowledge of the likelihood of a recession, and people could not be allowed to cancel their policies, and stop making payments, whenever the economic outlook became rosier.
It is much more efficient than taxation as a means of skimming a significant share of payments for Chinese exports, which accrue as currency reserves and can be used at the central government’s discretion.
In the modern era of automated payments, the upheaval might come from a terrorist attack that undermines the computerized transfer facilities of the world’s banking system.
The simplest – and most radical – solution would be to stop all official aid payments.
Indeed, with incremental investment largely financed by debt, and interest payments being tax-deductible, the corporate tax lowers the cost of capital and the returns to investment commensurately.
It became a broad-based emerging-economy crisis in August 1998, after Russia imposed a moratorium on payments by commercial banks to foreign creditors.
That includes suspension of international sanctions on Iran’s exports of oil, gold, and cars, which could yield $1.5 billion in revenue; unfreezing $4.2 billion in revenue from oil sales; and releasing tuition-assistance payments from the Iranian government to Iranian students enrolled abroad.
And yet halting the payments did not stabilize German politics.
If they continued the reparation payments or attempted to negotiate with Germany's “creditors," they would have discredited themselves in the eyes of their supporters.
It was only after payments were suspended that the German response to the Great Depression became so destructive.
Payments systems may fail, transport systems may fail, even security installations might malfunction.
The more important issue concerns financial markets and payments systems.
Imagine if Wall Street closes down because systems fail; no one trades, debts don't get paid, payments are not received leaving would-be recipients without liquidity and unable to meet their obligations.
Moreover, if something goes wrong in the sense of payments system failure, the central bank can guarantee liabilities of financial institutions so as to ward off a financial crisis.
Even if there are economic arguments for eliminating, say, the deductibility of mortgage interest payments, imagine the howls of protest from homeowners, including many Trump voters, who borrowed to purchase their houses.
Sometime in the future, payments would rise, but borrowers were told, again, not to worry: house prices would rise faster, making it easy to refinance with another negative amortization loan.
Now reality has hit: newspapers report cases of borrowers whose mortgage payments exceed their entire income.
In the old days, when borrowers found it impossible to make their payments, mortgages would be restructured; foreclosures were bad for both the borrower and the lender.
On the other hand, financial incentives would probably succeed, because cutting down forest to create pastureland is not profitable enough to induce farmers to forego payments for protecting the land.
The list of exemptions includes a country’s net payments to the EU, education expenses, public investment in general, or exceptional expenses.
And the renminbi now ranks fourth among the world’s currencies used for international payments.
But the renminbi’s 3% share in global payments lags far behind that of the dollar (45%) and the euro (27%).
Areas of focus would include using the SDR for some bond issuance and trade transactions, developing market infrastructure (including payments and settlement mechanisms), improving valuation methodologies, and gradually developing a yield curve for SDR-denominated loans and bonds.
Instead of profiting from sales at high prices, the corporation would become eligible for a share of all payments made by the fund over the next ten years.
A managing director of McKinsey, Anil Kumar, has already pled guilty to providing inside information to Rajaratnam in exchange for cash payments of at least $1.75 million.
To that end, the US wants to bar Iranian banks from the Society for World Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) and the global payments system that it oversees.
In a recent commentary in Handelsblatt, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas went so far as to call for the creation of an independent European payments system.
A university, for example, must set aside a portion of students’ tuition payments to cover unexpected expenses.
At a minimum, a reserve currency must be freely convertible for current-account transactions, such as commercial trade and interest payments.
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