Next year will be a very important year for China because possible strains in the banking system and the intensity with which the reformers present their case will give us a better sense both of how
much debt capacity the country retains and of how well positioned Xi Jinping and his allies are to implement the needed reforms.
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.
Not exact matches
Plunging demand and a worsening glut in production
capacity have left Bohai Steel struggling to repay as
much as $ 30 billion in
debt.
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.
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.
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).
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.
So
much industrial
capacity was added to the global economy in this China - driven,
debt - fueled, technology - enhanced business cycle that it is taking a long time for demand to recover to
capacity - clearing levels.
A DTI that is out of whack indicates you've borrowed as
much as you can handle, you don't have the
capacity for new
debt.
Peters says that nearly a third of your credit score is dependent on how
much you owe, compared to how
much you have the
capacity to borrow — your
debt utilization.
If a government can't «print money» to pay off it's own
debts, then its borrowing
capacity is becomes
much more limited.
Fortunately, that aspect's pretty
much self - financing — return on investment's attractive & predictable, and the resulting rise in rents & valuations offers increased
debt capacity to fund this incremental investment.
«For a business credit score, it's
much more looking at the financial history of the company, looking at what their cash burn is, looking at what their financial ratios are on their balance sheet and their
capacity to handle
debt and credit,» Ehrenberg said.
Debt Capacity — a company can only take on so much debt before it affects their credit rating and becomes difficult to find investors willing to make it lo
Debt Capacity — a company can only take on so
much debt before it affects their credit rating and becomes difficult to find investors willing to make it lo
debt before it affects their credit rating and becomes difficult to find investors willing to make it loans.