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Having in sight a solution to the eurozone’s sovereign-debt crisis would be a source of relief for financial markets.
British voters have an opportunity to spare themselves a great deal of economic turmoil, while allowing Germans – and many others across Europe – to breathe a sigh of relief.
In the Philippines, Japan’s Self-Defense Forces mounted a major relief effort after the devastating typhoon in November.
The Midwest and the Plains states, the country’s breadbasket, are baking under a massive heat wave, with more than half of the country under a drought emergency and little relief in sight.
Many EU governments are breathing a sigh of relief.
A similar difference exists in health policy: Bush prefers fiscal relief for taxpayers so that they can buy private medical insurance;Gore prefers public management with more public intervention.
Visiting the United States, as I recently did, provides some relief.
The TLTROs were designed to maximize the chances that banks would pass on the funding relief to borrowers.
Among other things, a plan B would offer Iran economic relief if the US were to re-impose sanctions, conditional on Iran’s continued compliance with the JCPOA; and it would provide the basis for a larger strategy of engaging with Iran and other stakeholders to de-escalate regional conflicts.
When asked about the ballooning deficit, he explained that "we have a deficit because tax revenues are down;" and that the tax relief package "has helped the economy, and that the deficit would have been bigger without the tax-relief package."
President George W. Bush pledged – albeit belatedly – $350 million in relief to the victims, and sent high-level emissaries to the region.
The images of US soldiers battling in Iraq have been supplemented by images of America’s military delivering relief to disaster victims.
Equally important, none of these efforts at relief or public diplomacy will be effective unless the style and substance of US policies are consistent with a larger democratic message.
Saving European Social Security from the PopulistsROME – Austria’s presidential election has thrown into sharp relief one of Europe’s fundamental challenges.
Several countries in the Arabian Peninsula, just across the Red Sea from the Horn, are also showing an encouraging readiness to deploy their oil earnings for emergency relief and long-term development.
Reversing this destabilizing dynamic will require a debt restructuring that provides the relief needed to implement pro-growth policies.
But many crucial decisions have yet to be taken, such as how much overall debt relief will be provided, and how the “haircut” will be distributed among holders of different types of bonds.
But future macroeconomic dynamics cannot be assessed without an estimate of the debt relief that will be provided.
But what the plan should have done is to define the policies Puerto Rico needs to recover, and simultaneously present a restructuring proposal that grants enough relief to make those policies feasible.
Using that plan as the basis for calculating Puerto Rico’s relief needs risks leading to the flawed conclusion that Puerto Rico can manage a recovery with a much smaller haircut than it needs.
Of course, the millions of personal bankruptcies and home foreclosures in the US are not popular, but they provide debt relief each time, thereby enabling households to make a fresh start.
This steady flow of debt relief is allowing US consumer spending to recover slowly.
Debt relief created fewer problems for banks in the US because a significant proportion of the subprime loans packaged into AAA-rated securities had been sold to gullible foreigners.
And Italy and France demand relief from the eurozone’s budget deficit and debt rules.
Unless the Treasury overpays for the securities, the scheme would not bring relief.
Facing elections next year, the ruling Congress Party is spending the government’s time and money on subsidies for consumers, wage hikes for state employees, and debt relief for farmers.
The US will have to raise taxes in order to pay for new spending initiatives, especially in the areas of sustainable energy, climate change, education, and relief for the poor.
This year, however, the palpable relief and celebration will be tempered by the widely shared sense that all is not well in America.
For example, Germany’s reluctance to provide debt relief to southern European countries has helped to prolong their woes; now, however, it may have sufficient incentive to do more, as it would reap immediate benefits from an EU-wide solution to the refugee crisis.
At the beginning of the crisis, Greece’s European creditors eschewed debt relief and charged punitive interest rates on bailout funds.
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