Although the Australian debt to GDP ratio was one of the lowest in the world, it did not escape criticism.In Lim et al. (2013), we argued that budget deficits need to be sustainable (they do not need to be surpluses) and that deficits have an important role in mitigating against ...
This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt-to-GDP ratio than any other country at China’s stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former...
If we grow at a rate of 4 to 5 percent, it is going to take us at least 10 years to bring debt to GDP ratio down to about 55 or 60 percent Full Story: https://www.fijivillage.com/news/At-least-10-years-to-bring-debt-to-GDP-ratio-down-to-about-55-to-60---Prof-Prasad-4x8...
It’s dawning on people that when the competition between businesses isn’t strong, firms can raise their prices by more than the increase in their costs, and so fatten their profit margins. What’s yet to dawn is that weak competition also allows businesses to pay their workers less than ...
the variables are: US 10-year bond yields, US 3-month LIBOR (%), the annual rate of US core inflation (%), the ISM manufacturing index and the ratio of Foreign held US Treasuries to the total amount of foreign debt outstanding (%).2 The period of estimation is January-1986 to August...
The Russian rouble has continued to toil – Standard & Poor’s recently cut Russian debt to ‘junk’ status. Oil shows no sign of returning to strength anytime soon. Perhaps the most notable feature of 2015 so far has been the unpredictable nature of market volatility. The status quo that...
Dec. 11Orora Completes Disposal of North American Packaging Solutions Business for AU$1.78 Billion; Buyback Scheme to StartMT Valuation: Orora Limited Capitalization3.3BP/E ratio 2025 * 17.8x P/E ratio 2026 *16x Enterprise value3.61BEV / Sales 2025 * ...
by the original lenders to be sold off to other investors. This occurred partly through conventional mortgage-backed securities but also, increasingly, through more complex products called collateralised debt obligations (or CDOs), that came to play an important part in the spreading of the crisis...
It's astounding that debt was able to grow at over 10% compound rates for nigh on 15 years. No wonder our household debt to GDP ratio has pushed so high 鈥 sounds suspiciously like we have been living beyond our collective means: Given the deteriorating global environment and the recent ...
Furthermore, as suggested by Poghosyan (2014), the Australian government’s debt-to-GDP ratio is included to capture fiscal dynamics. A limitation is that Australian government debt figures are released only annually; therefore, linear interpolation is used to approximate monthly data points for the...