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At the same time, periphery countries held a lot of dollar-denominated obligations which they had to repay when they could not roll them over.
Moreover, because the Chinese renminbi is grossly overvalued, corporations are borrowing dollars to repay their legacy dollar-denominated debt early, putting downward pressure on the exchange rate.
One reason that banks oppose debt write-downs is that many underwater homeowners continue to repay debt rather than default, even while cutting back on other spending.
Tax evaders were offered deals to repay overdue taxes.
After all, in a deflationary environment, it is more difficult to repay debt, so companies will tend to postpone investment.
They simply are nowhere to be found – though it would be wonderful if they existed, because they would have taken the money and set people to work building assets that they hoped would allow them to repay their loans with a healthy profit.
While experts are not sure whether Deripaska will repay the loan, the Kremlin and the oligarchs have their own ways of settling debts.
But local governments cannot continue to rely on revenue from land sales to repay their debts or support current spending.
In exchange for its financial support, the IMF typically requires countries to address the imbalances that caused their problems, not only so that they can repay the money, but also for their own good, so that they can restore their creditworthiness (and hence their access to capital markets).
But failure is not always a bad thing; a banker operating an all-equity bank, with no need ever to repay investors, would be likelier to take unwarranted risk.
The need to repay or roll over debt imposes discipline, giving the banker a stronger incentive to manage risk carefully.
The biggest gold outflow in a generation imperiled America’s ability to repay its debts abroad.
UNESCO provided the books, which bore an inscription that read, “Children should work hard, and by doing so they will repay their debt to the United Nations.”
No one could have imagined that one of those students would repay his debt by becoming Secretary-General and using that position to lead a campaign, the Global Education First Initiative, to provide others with the opportunity he received.
After years of sluggishness, accelerated depreciation helped investments to surge in 2006, and the resulting upswing in the economy brought enough tax receipts to more than repay the initial loss to the public budget.
If the price of carbon in, say, ten years, actually corresponds to the announced social value, the project will be profitable and the developer will repay the loan.
Talk of an African Marshall Plan – with loans issued to local businesses, which would repay them to their national governments to use for infrastructure development – proliferated after the Arab Spring, but led nowhere.
All debts imply a commitment by the borrower to repay what was borrowed, with interest.
Clearly, environmental risks are potentially large enough to affect countries’ economies in ways that could influence their willingness or ability to repay sovereign debt.
In the United States, brokers were selling mortgages without checking whether the borrower had the means to repay.
When the packages were unwrapped, most of their contents turned out to consist of pools of toxic assets for which there was no proper due diligence, no evidence of capacity to repay, and little cushion to cope with a market downturn.
But governments offer no collateral, and their principal incentive to repay – the fear of being cut off by international credit markets – derives from a perverse addiction.
But the power to tax has practical limits, and governments’ moral or legal right to bind future generations of citizens to repay foreign creditors is questionable.
The solution to breaking the nexus between sovereign-debt crises and banking crises is straightforward: limit banks to lending where evaluation of borrowers’ willingness and ability to repay isn’t a great leap in the dark.
Although designed before the current crisis, these models seem to fit current observations rather well: banks lending to entrepreneurs who could never repay, and asset prices changing even if there were no changes in conditions.
But, even at a 7% interest rate, some towns will not be able to repay their debts – a situation that will demand either that platform companies declare bankruptcy or that municipal debt is restructured.
Second, it was obvious that if Greece already could not repay its existing loans, the austerity conditions on which the “bailouts” were premised would crush Greek nominal incomes, making the national debt even less sustainable.
The result was the largest taxpayer-backed loan in history, provided on the condition that Greece pursue such strict austerity that its citizens have lost one-quarter of their incomes, making it impossible to repay private or public debts.
This is essential to placing Greece, finally, in a position to repay its debts and fulfill its obligations to its citizens.
And we cannot repay what we owe to them.
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