Sentences with phrase «war debts»

The situation is reminiscent of World War I's Inter-Ally war debt tangle.

This was quite an impressive feat when it was a fledgling nation with substantial war debts.

I think the only ones are the British, who on one occasion unilaterally reduced the coupon and on another (after WWII) converted war debt into perpetuals.

Mexico had trouble paying back war debts to European countries, and France had come to Mexico to collect that debt.

English banks had evolved at first out of the merchant banking of the goldsmiths — extending short - term credit to merchants to finance the shipping of goods, especially their importation and exportation — and then by the Bank of England monetizing loans to the government to finance its war debt (the purpose for which the Bank had been created in 1694).

The Treasury became a bank of issue, monetizing its war debt.

These taxes were to furnish the money to pay off the war debts.

Clueless... during World War II we had a 90 % tax rate as the highest level... and we used it to pay off our war debt..

The tax was a part of treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's program to increase central government power, in particular to fund his policy of assuming the war debt of those states which had failed to pay.

At the same time, the monarch's illegitimate daughter, Marie - Josephe, is brought to court in order to pay off war debts.

Poor harvests, bitter winters, war debts, and poverty precipitate rebellion and revenge as the royal family and many nobles are caught up in a murderous time known as «the Terror.»

Congress had little power and, as a result, couldn't deal with serious national problems such as paying the war debt.