Plus we can expect interest paid to be significantly lower in FY - 2016: I estimate $ 1.9 million, vs. a prior $ 2.8 million — which would imply an additional
debt capacity of $ 137 million (at a 5 % rate), for say a new - build (just announced!)
Once banks refined their cash - flow analysis and SME loan - underwriting skills, they were able to better understand
the debt capacity of individual businesses and structure loans according to cash flows.
Not exact matches
For those who have never taken on investment
debt before, he recommends assuming 10 % to 30 %
of borrowing
capacity.
«Japan is already undergoing rapid population aging, which will likely limit the market's future absorptive
capacity of public
debt,» wrote IMF economist Kiichi Tokuoka in a paper this year.
A significant share
of the corporate
debt in stressed economies is now owed by companies with weak
debt servicing
capacity and this could negatively affect bank balance sheets and cut into profits, it added.
«We have changed our view
of the difficulties in bridging the gulf between the political parties over fiscal policy, which makes us pessimistic about the
capacity of Congress and the Administration to be able to leverage their agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes the government's
debt dynamics any time soon.»
When taxing
capacity falls short
of financial commitments, central banks usually end up printing money to buy up government
debt.
The deal cost $ 1.9 billion — financed by a combination
of cash, shares and the assumption
of some
of seller Paramount Resources Ltd.'s
debt — and further enhanced Seven Generations»
capacity as a low - cost supplier.
OnDeck also extended the maturity date
of its asset - backed
debt facility that finances its line
of credit offering to May 2019, increased the facility's borrowing
capacity to $ 100 million, and decreased the funding costs by 200 basis points.
The bubbling interest comes as regulators grow increasingly worried about
debt levels and the
capacity of ordinary households to pay back big loans on expensive houses.
A real solution to the
debt problem, in other words, may involve initially a transfer
of debt onto the government balance sheet, but ultimately Beijing must then take real steps to lower
debt relative to
debt capacity.
Prior to last week, the U.S. faced formidable difficulties in adjusting to excess
capacity and a mountain
of debt in technology and telecommunications.
«In our view, China's structural growth deceleration is only half - way through and under the weight
of debt and excess
capacity, weakening investment demand will remain the main culprit.»
For instance, GDP in China's northeastern province
of Liaoning, which suffers from rust - belt industries mired in
debt and excess
capacity, shrunk 2.5 percent last year.
Even achieving the present trajectory
of domestic demand that we have, which has left the economy with a bit
of spare
capacity, has involved some net rise in the ratio
of household
debt to GDP.
The combination
of very high levels
of debt and excess manufacturing
capacity can lock an economy into a self - reinforcing deflationary process in which growth stagnates and
debt rises faster than
debt servicing
capacity.
It is only when credit growth begins to decelerate much more rapidly than nominal GDP growth that we can begin to talk hopefully about China's moving in the right direction, and it is only when credit growth falls permanently below the growth rate
of the economy's
debt - servicing
capacity that China will have adjusted.
Assume, for example, that a disorderly rebalancing occurs because Beijing waits so long to force through the reforms that it runs into
debt capacity limits (i.e. the growth in
debt can not exceed the growth in the amount
of bad
debt that must continually be rolled over).
In that case any credit - fueled increase in investment would likely have resulted in a net improvement in China's
debt servicing
capacity, in which case, with government
debt at well below 25 %
of GDP, rising
debt would not be a concern.
Debt, in this case, must be rising faster than debt servicing capacity, in which case Beijing's true debt level is not the nominal debt level but rather the nominal debt level plus estimates of contingent liabilities likely to rise as a consequence of wasted investm
Debt, in this case, must be rising faster than
debt servicing capacity, in which case Beijing's true debt level is not the nominal debt level but rather the nominal debt level plus estimates of contingent liabilities likely to rise as a consequence of wasted investm
debt servicing
capacity, in which case Beijing's true
debt level is not the nominal debt level but rather the nominal debt level plus estimates of contingent liabilities likely to rise as a consequence of wasted investm
debt level is not the nominal
debt level but rather the nominal debt level plus estimates of contingent liabilities likely to rise as a consequence of wasted investm
debt level but rather the nominal
debt level plus estimates of contingent liabilities likely to rise as a consequence of wasted investm
debt level plus estimates
of contingent liabilities likely to rise as a consequence
of wasted investment.
But closing down unnecessary
capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing
debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form
of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process
of over-
capacity.
The fact that China's
debt is rising much more quickly than China's
debt servicing
capacity is consistent with my implicit model — which claims that the optimal amount
of capital stock in China is a function
of China's relatively low level
of social capital, and that Chinese investment has far exceeded its optimal level — but it doesn't prove it.
I have long argued that as long as China — or indeed any other country — has the
debt capacity, it can get pretty much generate any amount
of economic activity it wants.
Even massive
debt - financed spending will not help unless the projects are intentionally designed to durably enhance the long - term productivity
of the U.S. economy, to avoid duplicative
capacity, and to relieve constraints that threaten to become binding in the future (personally, I remain convinced that renewable energy should be central to that list).
And third, assume that China continues to have as much
debt capacity as needed in the current period to fund the amount
of activity required to meet the GDP growth target.
Everyone agreed that
debt in China is still growing far too quickly relative to the country's
debt - servicing
capacity, but the pace
of credit growth seems to have declined in 2017, even as real GDP growth held steady and, more importantly, nominal GDP growth increased.
In my email, I went on to discuss why this matters so much and why it is incorrect to think
of China's GDP growth as growth in China's underlying economy (or in its
debt - servicing
capacity, or its productive
capacity, or however else one prefers to think
of GDP).
I have 2 questions: 1) How does the recent announcement
of plans to open up the Chinese financial economy to foreign firms change the equation
of «control» by the Chinese government 2) How do you envision the scenario where we reach maximum
debt capacity and a transition into a low growth scenario?
While the purpose
of this activity may be to generate employment, if the activity is not productive, the GDP it creates — along with the employment it generates — will be reversed in the future once
debt capacity has been reached.
Of course
debt growing faster than
debt - servicing
capacity is unsustainable, so we will set as our first financial sector target the point at which the two grow in line with each other.
The standard proxy for growth in
debt - servicing
capacity is GDP growth, but this is only valid in economies in which GDP growth data is a systems output that measures the underlying performance
of the economy.
Because the amount
of bad
debt in each period is almost certainly a growing number, it must follow logically that the GDP growth number observers really want, rather than the one they have — that is, GDP growth as a systems output that can serve as a proxy for
debt - servicing
capacity — is a declining number, and perhaps even a quickly declining number.
The information collected by the credit bureau and processed into your business credit profile is designed to reflect the financial condition
of your business and its
capacity to service
debt.
This requires that observers have not only an appropriate measure
of new credit in each period, but also an appropriate measure
of the growth in
debt - servicing
capacity.
In his 2012 fall report, the Auditor General raises the issue
of «long - term fiscal sustainability» — the government's
capacity to finance its activities and
debt obligations in the future without imposing an unfair tax burden on future generations.
Ms. Caro Diaz is part
of the Organizing and
Capacity Building Team at the Center for Popular Democracy and provides support to social movements in Puerto Rico struggling against the
debt and austerity measures proposed by a Fiscal Control Board.
Essentially what that means is we've got somewhere between $ 1.5 billion and $ 2 billion
of debt capacity available to us.
The vast stimulus programme launched at the end
of 2008 to counter the world financial crisis restored growth but led to wholesale misallocation
of capital into wasteful projects that earn scant returns, the vast
debt problem affecting companies as well as local governments, and also created soaring excess
capacity in sectors such as steel production.
On that basis, quantitative easing frees up «
capacity» for the issuance
of additional market
debt.
The Canadian consumer, meanwhile, might be benefiting from somewhat cheaper gasoline, but their spending
capacity is stretched thanks to a record high level
of household
debt.
The loan is granted mainly on the basis
of the project's
capacity to generate sufficient revenue to service the
debt.
Bank reports, which should give details
of the bank's relationship with the company, the company's borrowing
capacity and its level
of debt.
The populace has run out
of its
capacity to take on new
debt without going quickly into default on the
debt already issued.
As an indicator
of your creditworthiness how much you owe and how it's broken up across the different types
of loans acts as a signal about your
capacity to manage your existing
debt.
God has given us the
capacity to conduct practical budgeting as a means to get out
of debt and become a blessing (Proverbs 21:5).
The city released an agenda for a mid-December meeting that listed «Review
of Basic Deal Structure,» «Financing Issues,» including «City
Debt Capacity,» and «Security for Public Financing,» as discussion items.
Given the State's limited resources, shrinking statutory
debt capacity and unmet capital needs, it is critical that the State prioritize its use
of debt and capital resources — including the (windfall) resources deposited in the (infrastructure fund)-- to ensure that they are used as effectively as possible, and with appropriate levels
of transparency and accountability.
The plan, which is released following the passage
of a state budget presenting an analysis
of the spending plan as well as out - year projections, shows that the state's
debt capacity is expected to tighten in the coming fiscal years.
New York is expected to remain under its
debt capacity limit even as it continues to borrow heavily for new capital projects, according to the state Division
of Budget's enacted budget plan released on Friday.
«Given the State's limited resources, shrinking statutory
debt capacity and unmet capital needs, it is critical that New York prioritize its use
of debt and capital resources, including the resources deposited in the DIIF and the other settlement resources, to ensure that they are used as effectively as possible,» the report found.