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Indian fathers still sometimes repay debts by committing their children to bonded labor.
So they rushed to gas pumps, to jewelry shops, and to creditors to repay loans.
But annual deficits are poor approximations of the likelihood that one member may have to repay another’s debt.
To be in debt can produce anxiety if one is uncertain whether, when the time comes, one will be able to repay what one owes.
How, people ask, will governments repay all of the hundreds of billions of dollars that they owe?
The next step readily follows: in order to repay, or at least reduce, the national debt, the government must eliminate its budget deficit, because the excess of spending over revenue continually adds to the national debt.
But their governments do not have to repay their debts, either.
IMF credits will go to repay the IMF, not to reactivate the economy.
Households in US cities received mortgages in 2006 that they could never hope to repay, while taxpayers never dreamed that they would be called on to bail out the lenders.
Instead, it makes sense to borrow while the parents are young and their income is still relatively low, and to repay once they are better off.
There is no credible scenario in which Japan can generate fiscal surpluses large enough to repay its accumulated debt: a significant proportion will remain permanently on the Bank of Japan’s balance sheet.
By drawing on its holdings in an International Monetary Fund reserve account, it was able to repay €750 million ($851 million) – ironically to the IMF itself – just as the payment was falling due.
This strategy’s success presupposes that, in the interim, economic growth will strengthen the capacity to repay debt down the line.
Because North Korea does not repay loans, it cannot borrow money; because it reneges on deals, it drives away potential partners; and, because it aims for autarky, it cannot specialize or exploit its comparative advantages.
Meanwhile, demand in most of the European Union is weak, ruling out the economic growth needed to repay debts and offer hope to the 25 million unemployed.
The London Agreement of 1953 canceled 50% of Germany’s public debt and restructured the other half to give the country much longer to repay.
According to Bernanke’s “debt deflation” theory, the collapse in consumer prices was one of the causes of the Great Depression, since deflation raised the real value of debts, making it difficult to repay loans.
At the most simplistic level: in a world with perfect information, bankruptcy would not exist - why, indeed, would anyone lend to someone who they knew would not repay them?
The terms of the loan called for Cuba to repay it within six months; by then, however, the government was close to collapsing.
Even with substantial reform to improve its growth potential, Greece will never be able to repay its sovereign debt and needs substantial relief.
The government can do that – and it can make sure that either the bank will repay the loans (by getting good collateral) or that the financial sector overall will cover the repayment (as Dodd-Frank authorized and required).
But who, precisely, are those who do not repay their debts, and who are those who hire assassins to get rid of their creditors?
But Greece is not the only country struggling to repay its existing debt, much less dampen borrowing.
Heavily indebted Asian enterprises didn’t have the cash to repay their loans, since the loans had been sunk into new factories, real estate, and other long-term ventures.
Over the next five years, a record $1.5 trillion worth of nonfinancial corporate bonds will mature each year; as some companies struggle to repay, defaults will most likely rise.
By calling what’s being taken from the young “taxes,” rather than “borrowing” – that is, a promise to repay far more than what’s being taken – the implicit debts have been intentionally kept off the books.
Consider a Greek depositor keen to convert a large sum of BE into FE (say, to pay for medical expenses abroad, or to repay a company debt to a non-Greek entity).
The eurozone authorities thus permitted Greek banks to deny their customers the right to repay loans or mortgages in BE, thereby boosting the effective BE-FE exchange rate.
Much aid, in fact, is simply the delivery of dollars for recycling to repay debts owed to the IMF and World Bank and rich-country governments.
The "donors" do not cut off aid flows because they know that their past loans would fall into default if new money is not delivered to the countries to repay the old debts!
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