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- Government Debt and Deficits In Canada
- This paper examines the macroeconomic implications of rising government debt in Canada and the short-run costs and long-run benefits of stemming the rise. The discussion begins with an evaluation of the long-run consequences of increasing government indebtedness, first based on the simple arithmetic of the government's long-run budget constraint, and...
- White papers 1995-01-01
- Worth Asking: Who Wins If Dollar Loses?
- Betting against the dollar is becoming an awfully crowded, and risky, trade. There are reasons to doubt the greenback's value. Government debt is the highest as a percentage of gross domestic product since the 1950s. Federal Reserve monetary policy has never been easier, flooding the system with dollars. Yet there...
- White papers 2009-09-21
- The Rip-Off that Makes Madoff's Ponzi Pale
- Â Bernard Madoff is small fry. There's a worldwide Ponzi scheme that is ripping off an entire generation. Madoff lost $50bn in his Ponzi scheme, where new money pays for the returns of existing members. That is small fry compared to the intergenerational rip-off...
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
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- The Conduct of Monetary Policy With a Shrinking Stock of Government Debt
- In many countries, government-budget surpluses have led to a decline in the amount of federal government debt outstanding. This paper considers the consequences of this development for a central bank that conducts monetary policy through open market operations in treasury debt. A model is presented in which a treasury taxes,...
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Government debt and excess sensitivity of private consumption: estimates from OECD countries
- This article investigates the role of government debt in the degree of excess sensitivity of private consumption to current disposable income. Because this type of excess sensitivity is generally attributed to liquidity constraints, this amounts to a test of the impact of government debt on the amount of credit extended...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Government Debt
- This paper surveys the literature on the macroeconomic effects of government debt.It then presents the conventional theory of government debt, which emphasizes aggregate demand in the short run and crowding out in the long run and examines the theoretical and empirical debate over the theory of debt neutrality called Ricardian...
- White papers 1998-01-12
- RATIO OF GOVERNMENT DEBT STAYS STABLE IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2003
- The ratio of government debt to GDP stayed stable in the first half of 2003 at 102 percent, having risen in 2001 and 2002 from a level of 89 percent. The internal debt rose as a result of the increase in borrowing, while the external debt in NIS terms declined,...
- Research articles 2003-09-02
- Government Debt in Emerging Market Countries: A New Data Set
- This paper presents a new database on government debt in 19 emerging market countries since 1980. The data set focuses on the structure of debt in terms of jurisdiction of insurance, maturity, currency composition and indexation. The paper presents stylized facts on debt structures and preliminary evidence on their determinants....
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Repo men; Treasury bonds.(A crackdown on trading in American government debt)
- Strange goings-on in the giant market for American government debt DON'T even think about it. That is the message from financial regulators to those tempted to manipulate the $4 trillion market in American government debt. This week it emerged that the Securities and Exchange...
- Research articles 2006-11-04
- Households Cut Back While Government Debt Grows
- Kurt Brouwer submits: During this recession, Americans are paying down their mortgages, paying off car and truck loans and moving back to old fashioned thrift. And, yet, despite all the cutbacks on the part of Americans, the country’s debt load has gone up due primarily to government borrowing....
- External links 2009-09-29
- Government Debt: A Key Role in Financial Intermediation
- Highly volatile real returns on government debt, for example through surprise inflation, have very low costs. However, policymakers are almost always very apprehensive of this option. The paper discusses evidence concerning features of developing country financial markets that are missing in existing models, and that may suggest why this policy...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- U.K.: Individual Liability for Government Debt
- Cynicus Economicus submits: My original plan for this post was to highlight the disconnect between the stock market and the underlying state of the UK economy. However, there may be the start of a panic in stock markets, so it may be that the disconnect is starting to correct...
- External links 2009-11-02
- Dubai Seeks Debt Delay, Some Units Cut to Junk
- By Matt Smith and Enjy KiwanDUBAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dubai said on Wednesday two of its flagship firms planned to delay repayment on billions of dollars of debt as a first step toward restructuring Dubai World, the conglomerate that spearheaded the emirate's breakneck growth.The sudden move by the Gulf government...
- News items 2009-11-25
- Dubai Seeks Debt Delay, Some Units Cut to Junk
- By Matt Smith and Enjy KiwanDUBAI/NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Dubai said on Wednesday two of its flagship firms planned to delay repayment on billions of dollars of debt as a first step towards restructuring Dubai World, the conglomerate that spearheaded the emirate's breakneck growth.The sudden move by the Gulf...
- News items 2009-11-25
- Government Needs to Stop the Economic Wildfire
- Lok Sang Ho submits: Many commentators made the observation that the current economic downturn was associated with an excessive debt burden. From this observation they concluded that the problem cannot be solved by increasing more debt, such as TARP implies. Actually, the economic downturn was not so much caused by...
- External links 2009-02-16
- Exclusive: GM Must Pay Debt, Make Money Before IPO
- By John CrawleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors GM should focus on making money and repaying U.S. Treasury loans before turning to public markets to sell the taxpayer's stake in the automaker, a senior government official said.Ron Bloom, head of the Obama administration's autos task force, nevertheless told Reuters that an...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Exclusive: GM Must Pay Debt, Make Money Before IPO
- By John Crawley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors GM should focus on making money and repaying U.S. Treasury loans before turning to public markets to sell the taxpayer's stake in the automaker, a senior government official said. Ron Bloom, head of the Obama administration's autos task force, nevertheless told Reuters...
- News items 2009-11-18
- COUNTRY CEILINGS FOR LONG-TERM FOREIGN CURRENCY DEBT
- Moody's Investors Service has upgraded Pakistan's country ceilings for long-term foreign currency debt and bank deposits to B2 from B3 to reflect the government's narrowing fiscal deficit, the rapid decline in government debt ratios, and the ongoing strenMoody's Investors Service has upgraded Pakistan's country ceilings for long-term foreign currency debt...
- Research articles 2003-10-20
- PAKISTAN: COUNTRY CEILINGS FOR LONG-TERM FOREIGN CURRENCY DEBT.(Brief Article)
- Moody's Investors Service has upgraded Pakistan's country ceilings for long-term foreign currency debt and bank deposits to B2 from B3 to reflect the government's narrowing fiscal deficit, the rapid decline in government debt ratios, and the ongoing Moody's Investors Service has upgraded Pakistan's country ...
- Research articles 2003-10-20
- New Evidence on the Interest Rate Effects of Budget Deficits and Debt
- This paper covers Government debt, government deficits, interest rate regressions, CBO projections, OMB projections. The estimated effects of government debt and deficits on interest rates are statistically and economically significant: a one percentage point increase in the projected deficit-to-GDP ratio is estimated to raise long-term interest rates by roughly 25...
- White papers 2003-01-04
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