Direct talks also have some well known liabilities.

Consider a bank with liabilities of 1 billion.

Investment banks commitments to leveraged buyouts became liabilities.

These bodies are especially important in providing budgetary estimates, particularly for unfunded long term liabilities.

For example, the Spanish banking sector alone has short term liabilities of several hundred billion euros.

It has since added formidably to its debt liabilities.

The result is that net social security liabilities are essentially zero.

(d) The entry of liabilities with incorrect identification of their objects

Russia inherited all of the Soviet Union's foreign financial claims and liabilities.

Persistently low interest rates have been particularly challenging for pension funds, which face rising liabilities (calculated on a discounted basis).

Still, Germany cannot escape the responsibilities and liabilities that go with that role.

Overnight, the foreign euro liabilities of Greece s government, banks, and companies would surge.

Should they explicitly guarantee large financial institutions liabilities and or classes of assets?

In Japan, for example, existing public debt is near 100 , but there is an extra 150 of GDP in net pension liabilities.

But in most cases, firms liabilities comprise real debt owed to major international banks.

Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton s Democratic rival, actually proposes to expand the programs unfunded liabilities.

In the past, the government dealt with the problems that these liabilities caused for the banking system by injecting funds into the banks.

It is a mistake to look only at a country s liabilities, and ignore its assets.

If these liabilities grow by 10 annually, countries need to set aside an additional 160 billion.

Eventually, the only way out is to reset the value of liabilities via restructuring or inflation.

Because their currencies are not widely used internationally, many of their bank liabilities are in euros.

The Greek state will be the sole shareholder, but will not guarantee its liabilities or debt.

In the US, more generous assumptions regarding discount rates are used to calculate pension fund liabilities.

Within the current regulatory and legal environment, with derivatives and other off balance sheet liabilities, there is no way for investors to have that assurance today.

Countries like to keep their reserves growing in tandem with growth in imports and other foreign liabilities.

Today, the two largest Swiss banks are sinking in liabilities that exceed seven times the country s income.

So investors are telling companies to report their carbon emissions today in order to assess future liabilities.

Europe s banking sector liabilities are nearly five times higher than in the US, at 345 of GDP.

The issue is not just illiquidity financial institutions with short term liabilities and longer term illiquid assets.

Estimates of the government's growing aggregate liabilities (bank debt, un funded pension plans, bonded indebtedness for infrastructural projects, etc.) range from 70 to over 150 of GDP.

In short, the main part of Europe s banking assets, liabilities, and risks are concentrated in these large banks.

Likewise, higher taxes cannot resolve the problem posed by the mounting unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare.

But these targets have been organized around the explicit public debt already on the books with absolutely no provision for the implicit debt implied by social security liabilities.

The system is complex, expensive to administer, and can result in double taxation because members usually do not allow full write offs for losses and tax liabilities incurred abroad.

Research is needed to ensure that nanomaterials, and the industry that produces them, evolve as environmental assets rather than liabilities.

Finally, it plans to renegotiate Greece s debt with lenders, in the hope of writing off the bulk of its liabilities.

But these targets have been organized around the explicit public debt already on the books with absolutely no provision for the implicit debt implied by social security liabilities. Yet, these liabilities are just as real as the existing public debt and, in quite a few cases, their present value is as high or higher than the public debt numbers.

The banking sector s size is a cause for concern because, with total liabilities amounting to more than 250 of the eurozone s GDP, any major problem could over burden public budgets.

The result is an escalating financial snowball comprised of payroll, tax, and loan liabilities, which would have led to bankruptcy if the business owner hadn t approached the prosecutor s office for assistance.

Yes, the financial system is insolvent, but it has nominal liabilities and either it or its borrowers have some real assets.

Governments that guarantee bank liabilities, however, must then also demand that bankers exercise more prudence than they might on their own.

Austrian, Italian, and Swiss regulators, seeing that their banks assets and liabilities were in their own currencies, looked the other way.

This created a two speed Europe, with debtor countries sinking under the weight of their liabilities, and surplus countries forging ahead.

More recently, the state assumed the liabilities of rogue property developers by setting up a bad bank which could potentially saddle Irish taxpayers with a mountain of debt for decades to come.

In small countries, where a significant share of bank liabilities is in someone else s currency, the national central bank lacks this capacity.