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More than a week after the earthquake and aftershocks killed more than 7,000 people and devastated the capital, Kathmandu, and despite the mobilization of massive
amounts
of aid from international agencies, the country’s finance minister had yet to receive any of the money promised by foreign countries.
Their reaction was understandable: even entertaining the possibility of the US becoming “number two”
amounts
to career suicide for an American politician.
Coal and gas are burned in huge and growing
amounts
to produce electricity and to provide energy for industry.
Despite the recent rebound, China’s stock-market capitalization
amounts
to only 40% of GDP, while banking assets total 266% of GDP.
The receipts can be used as scratch cards to win small
amounts
of cash, but they also serve as lottery tickets for winning larger
amounts.
Members of the Sharif family, it was revealed, had illegally transferred huge
amounts
of money into numerous offshore companies, which had then invested in expensive properties in London and the Middle East.
Continued high emissions of heat-trapping gases will lead to large
amounts
of future warming.
Moreover, China continues to attract huge
amounts
of cross-border capital, as advanced countries like the US pursue expansionary monetary policies.
The US housing boom is due, first, to low interest rates, which mean that large
amounts
of money can be borrowed for mortgages with moderate monthly payments.
After all, China’s official defense budget for this year – at roughly $175 billion –
amounts
to just one-quarter of the $700 billion budget approved by the US Congress.
Israel’s blockade
amounts
to collective punishment.
We started by studying muscle, simply because it gave us large
amounts
of proteins.
Far more disconcerting is the willingness of major central banks – not just the Fed, but also the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan – to inject massive
amounts
of excess liquidity into asset markets – excesses that cannot be absorbed by sluggish real economies.
EU aid today to Turkey, though doubled last week, still
amounts
to just €1 billion.
In a system that allows tax deductions for charitable giving, beneficial initiatives get more money than they would get if the same
amounts
were spent by the state.
Kostunica’s election as President of Yugoslavia
amounts
to an incomplete revolution: many of the old guard are still in place.
The first was UK citizens’ overwhelming rejection of their country’s net fiscal transfer to the rest of the EU, which currently
amounts
to 0.4% of GDP.
The financial collapse of which I had been warning for months occurred in February, when the hryvnia’s value plummeted 50% in a few days, and the National Bank of Ukraine had to inject large
amounts
of money to rescue the banking system.
The Fed would then cause a liquidity squeeze and so distort asset prices as to make much construction, sizable
amounts
of other investment, and some consumption goods unaffordable (and thus unprofitable to produce).
What the stolen emails revealed was a group of the world’s most influential climatologists arguing, brainstorming, and plotting together to enforce what
amounts
to a party line on climate change.
Western businessmen, artists, architects, and others who need large
amounts
of money for expensive projects enjoy working with authoritarian regimes that “get things done.”
After all, who cares about Florida’s current-account deficit – or even knows what it
amounts
to?
But an immediate resumption of negotiations
amounts
to an approach that is all carrot and no stick, damaging the EU’s own credibility.
The sharp rise in domestic interest rates was necessary not only to stabilize the currency, but also to make it attractive for investors to roll over large
amounts
of peso bonds coming due in early May.
None of this
amounts
to handing the Argentine authorities a blank check.
The rise of the far-right Danish People’s Party and Sweden Democrats, with their roots in Swedish fascism and their nostalgia for the mythic white Sweden of the 1950s,
amounts
to a devastating blow to the most perfect model of social democracy that Europe has ever produced.
The Draghi Put on TrialCAMBRIDGE – In the summer of 2012, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi pledged to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro, including purchasing “unlimited”
amounts
of struggling governments’ bonds.
The dollar’s status as the dominant international reserve currency
amounts
to what former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously described as America’s “exorbitant privilege.”
Moreover, they have adopted a negative interest-rate policy – which
amounts
to charging a fee for bank reserves – to revitalize depressed demand.
The
amounts
held in reserves are huge - roughly $1.6 trillion worldwide.
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