In a draft discussion paper on 30 March 2012, the European Commission's Directorate General for Internal Market and Services outlined (PDF) that debt write-down tools should be designed in a way to give resolution authorities the power to write off all shareholder equity and either write off all types of subordinated liabilities, or convert them into equity claim.
Major economic powers agreed Sunday to write off more than $31 billion in debt for Iraq in a deal that boosted U.S. efforts to help put the Iraqi economy back on its feet.
Some analysts believe China is heading for a day of reckoning; others put their faith in the powers of the Chinese leadership to write off debts.
If Podemos were to pull enough votes away from the Partido Popular (PP) and the Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol (PSOE) to gain power in Spain, its pledge to write off national debt and lower labor participation rates (purportedly to increase employment overall) would lead to EU sanctions, bank runs, and skyrocketing unemployment and emigration.
The reason for a "lose" being good is that, even in a loss, Power REIT will be able to write off $16 million or more in the form of debt from NSC and WLE that they are trying to collect, and this will allow them to distribute future dividends to shareholders in the form of tax-free return of capital for decades to come.
Lochbaum and others, however, think it's too soon to write off U.S. nuclear power.
Yet Democrats would be foolish to write off her visceral power.
It would be easy to write off the move to Naypyidaw as an inconsequential caprice of the secretive generals who have been in power for 46 years.
If we assume that Podesta doesn't just run at the mouth, that every word he speaks, especially to the New York Times, is a professional and calculated one, and that he represents certain powers that be in the Democratic Party, are those powers writing off the president?
For example, producers can write off oil and gas that gets flared or used on drilling sites to power equipment, and never have to pay royalties on it.
