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While US lawmakers are pushing to repeal portions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation – which contains a provision requiring oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose payments they make to governments – the broader trend is toward greater transparency and accountability.
This calls for creative means of effecting information transfer and making and receiving official payments by telephone.
Lastly, we should consider the role of a country’s monetary balance with respect to its balance of payments.
And, from the bureaucrat's point of view, his or her salary might be pathetic, but it comes with a steady stream of facilitation payments.
Without in any way minimizing the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free health care and free education for their children.
The most direct way to encourage the purchase of health insurance would be to exclude employer payments for such insurance from employees’ taxable income.
By contrast, a similar tax rule to exempt employer payments for health insurance would reduce national saving by causing employees to substitute health insurance for large personal cash accumulations.
In Honduras, direct government payments to journalists are common, as are minimal or non-existent salaries for reporters.
Given Italy’s very large national debt, interest payments add more than 5% of GDP to the fiscal deficit.
If interest rates were to return to 2007 levels, interest payments on government debt could rise by 20%, other things being equal.
Likewise, US and European non-financial corporations saved $710 billion from lower debt-service payments, with ultra-low interest rates thus boosting profits by about 5% in the US and the UK, and by 3% in the eurozone.
Moreover, according to iResearch, mobile payments in China already amount to $5.5 trillion, roughly 50 times that of the US.
Yet the new tech giants are multi-product, omni-channel platforms that cut across all sectors, including production, distribution, payments, and, increasingly, wealth management.
The tech giants, meanwhile, argue that if they could just move faster into inefficient production and distribution areas, not least mobile payments, productivity growth would accelerate.
That means lower loan-to-value ratios, stricter mortgage-underwriting standards, limits on second-home financing, higher counter-cyclical capital buffers for mortgage lending, higher permanent capital charges for mortgages, and restrictions on the use of pension funds for down payments on home purchases.
For example, if loan-to-value ratios are reduced and down payments on home purchases are higher, households may have an incentive to borrow from friends and family – or from banks in the form of personal unsecured loans – to finance a down payment.
In countries (for example, Sweden) where recourse loans allow seizure of household income to enforce payment of mortgage obligations, private consumption may plummet as debt payments (and eventually rising interest rates) crowd out discretionary spending.
Further haircuts on private claims would also be needed, starting with a moratorium on interest payments.
If successful, the Shanghai market could trigger a shift of payments for other traded commodities as well – all at the dollar’s expense.
When this happens, seed is transformed from being a common good into being the “intellectual property” of companies such as Monsanto, for which the corporation can claim limitless profits through royalty payments.
Thain, also a former president of Goldman Sachs, helped himself and his Merrill Lynch staff to $4 billion in bonus payments even after he had to sell the firm to Bank of America to save it from bankruptcy.
For the Chinese, the future of the international monetary system should be one in which multiple national currencies provide choice – in terms of invoicing, payments, and asset allocation – thereby reducing the system’s exposure to national politics.
In 1981, the “trade adjustment assistance (TAA) program was one of the first things Reagan attacked, cutting its weekly compensation payments.”
Interest payments on the debt eventually become so burdensome that bondholders demand higher interest payments (Greek debt recently yielded over 30%).
But sluggish growth means less tax revenue and more demands for payments to cushion hardship, placing pressure on government budgets.
In the past, the big loser from the EU system, in budgetary terms, was the UK; for while agriculture accounted for two thirds of all EU spending, the UK had a small farm sector, and therefore received small farm payments.
Nigerian officials are anxious to swat away charges that Shell padded its figures for reserves in Nigeria to take advantage of lax oversight and regulatory mechanisms and reap millions of dollars in bonus payments.
The Social Democrats returned to power in 1994, but they accepted Bildt’s new fiscal policies, and even carried out a revolutionary pension reform in 1998 that properly tied benefits to payments.
The explanation at that time was usually found in the predictable timing of the international payments mechanism.
It is difficult to think of the harvest-driven seasonal cyclicality of payments producing crises today, but somehow the problem persists.
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