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After independence from Britain in 1783, America’s states refused to repay their Revolutionary War debts.
The Constitution would create a new national government that could coin stable money, borrow, and repay debts, including the states’ defaulted Revolutionary War borrowings.
But getting the dollars to repay the debt was not easy.
They, in turn, would secure the votes for the federal government to assume and repay the states’ defaulted debts.
Growth would restore confidence that Greece could repay its debts, causing interest rates to fall and leaving more fiscal room for further growth-enhancing investments.
If Greece cannot repay its debt, ESM shareholders will suffer a loss; and that risk is not priced into the interest rate Greece pays.
Additionally, most countries that have funded development and infrastructure through borrowing have failed to generate sufficient additional tax revenues to repay that debt.
The borrower is thus more likely to be able to repay the loan, even if its product’s price falls.
And, while the inability to repay loans can contribute to a high debt burden, the nonperforming-loan (NPL) ratio for China’s major banks stands at less than 1%.
Without central-bank involvement, investors’ panicky prophecy would be self-fulfilling, with the resulting spike in borrowing costs making it impossible for the government to repay its creditors.
In May 2010, financial markets lost confidence in the ability of Greece to manage its budget deficit and to repay its debt.
Worse, banks failed to understand the first principle of risk management: diversification only works when risks are not correlated, and macro-shocks (such as those that affect housing prices or borrowers’ ability to repay) affect the probability of default for all mortgages.
To his mind, it is time for Europeans to repay the favor, even though it isn’t all that clear which European economic and commercial activities benefited from supposed US-conferred advantages, unless one links trade with security.
So long as the credits are long term and carry a modest interest rate (say, 25-year dollar loans at 5% per annum), the recipient countries could repay the loans out of the significant boost in incomes that would result over the course of a generation.
The revenues gained from selling the electricity is used to repay CRC Breeze Finance’s long-term debt.
The question was whether a sovereign would ultimately be able to repay its debt, given specific economic and financial conditions, long-term trends such as the aging of the population, and uncertainty about the future course of policy.
As these projects come onstream, they will generate the revenue needed to repay loans.
Toxic TestsCAMBRIDGE – The United States government is now permitting ten of America’s biggest banks to repay about $70 billion of the capital injected into them last fall.
Populists are demagogues who promise the unaffordable; they are willing to run deficits and incur debts that our grandchildren will have to repay.
There then followed a crazy system: Germany borrowed money from the US in order to repay Britain, France, and Belgium, while France and Belgium used a bit of it to pay back Britain, and Britain used more of it to pay back the US.
Prabhu's most impressive promise – to raise $140 billion from market lenders – is also his most problematic, as he has failed to clarify how exactly the railways would repay the loans.
Economic growth must be the priority, for only growth will put people back to work and repay Europe’s debts.
This is a risky assumption, because it implies that no European government will ever fail to repay the bond in full, with all interest due, and on time.
Ireland knows better than most countries the difficulties that can arise from having to borrow to fund services or repay maturing debts.
It could borrow money from a bank and repay it from resulting profits.
They may accept that a default could be part of a policy package designed to improve the country’s economic fundamentals and thus its capacity to repay its debt in the long term.
Loan covenants have likely been broken, and lenders begin demanding that the borrower either put up new collateral or deleverage and repay part of the loan.
To repay, the firm must purchase dollars.
The idea that a country can achieve a trade surplus by importing nothing is as fanciful as the idea that a government can repay its debt by starving itself of revenue.
Micro-credits, for example, are much more efficient when women receive and repay them.
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