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The balance of payments of the United States has been strongly in deficit since 1958. This continuous deficit has led to significant gold outflows. Gold reserves have declined while short-term external debt has increased. The…
The “key currencies” bear the usual risks faced by bankers. No bank could return deposits in banknotes to its clients if all of them demanded withdrawal at the same time. The acceptance of deposits and their mobilization thro…
The recent evolution of external payments in the United States and the United Kingdom has raised significant concerns and sparked a theoretical controversy. The gold exchange standard lies at the center of the debate, and pro…
As established, the mortgage is directly linked to a specific obligation and asset. When the debt it guarantees is structured in installments and documented through separate instruments, these can be registered alongside the …
The growing investment in plant and equipment, and the significant weight of fixed assets within capital projects, explain why a substantial portion of medium- and long-term credit is secured through real collateral. Within b…
Although real guarantees are of primary interest in banking operations, personal guarantees—particularly those of the client—constitute the initial basis of any credit transaction. These are grounded in attributes such as rel…
The growing inflationary process has introduced into banking operations a varied number of instruments that attempt to correct the monetary distortions produced by that process, both in capital and in interest. For that reaso…
These characteristics define the nature of suretyship as either simple or joint and several, giving rise to what are known as the benefit of excussion and the benefit of division. Under the benefit of excussion, a simple guar…
Transport networks and factories are often found in poor condition or become obsolete due to technological progress accelerated by war. Reconstruction does not simply mean rebuilding what was destroyed or returning to previou…
The growth of Western countries since the end of the last war stands out for both its scale and its duration. Capitalist economies had never experienced such a prolonged period of prosperity. Recessions were shallow and brief…
