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Finally, modest
amounts
of money, directed at practical problem solving, can make an historic difference.
Ferguson’s argument
amounts
to that of a brutal disciplinarian who claims vindication for his methods by pointing out that the victim is still alive.
In all cases, adventurous users or professionals can overcome the paternalism, but only by paying what
amounts
to liability insurance, for the risks they impose on the system.
The P5’s failure to end conflicts – and, in some cases, its members’ contribution to aggravating or prolonging hostilities – amounts, at the very least, to condoning violence and suffering, which disproportionately affects small and medium-size countries.
The
amounts
involved are of macroeconomic significance, especially as they would be spent almost immediately and exercise a multiplier effect.
Former Deputy Foreign Minister Chun Yung-woo warned an American official in 2010 that revising the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement could soon become a “defining issue” in South Korea-US relations, and that it was already attracting “significant
amounts
of negative press attention.”
But it is certain that he has recognized the ethical dimension of the current economic crisis: “It
amounts
to one of values: do we assign a value only to wealth or the work which creates it?”
Greece, for example, has accepted large
amounts
of Chinese investment.
Specifically, China has decided to pour huge
amounts
of money into establishing new development institutions: the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the Maritime Silk Road Bank, and the New Development Bank (created by the five major emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa).
Making matters worse for the SPD, the demographic profile of its core electorate
amounts
to a death sentence.
Immense
amounts
of time were wasted in enterprises by informal requests for assistance, forcing knowledgeable workers to become computer gurus in order to aid their colleagues.
Greece was then given unprecedented
amounts
of highly subsidized finance to enable it to reduce gradually its excessive spending.
Greece never had the productive structure to be as rich as it was: its income was inflated by massive
amounts
of borrowed money that was not used to upgrade its productive capacity.
On that basis, GCC governments’ revenue shortfalls relative to their spending – the so-called “non-oil fiscal balance” –
amounts
to almost 50% of their non-oil GDP.
Even assuming a very large carbon tax, this
amounts
to a rather paltry $142 million, meaning that the project’s value – $261 million in savings – stems largely from the $1.04 billion saved on electricity payments.
Although the financial sector lost more than half of its stock-market value during the last five years, executives were still able to cash out, prior to the stock market implosion, large
amounts
of equity compensation and bonus compensation.
Instead they give 0.25% - a shortfall that
amounts
to $120 billion per year.
This model’s viability depends on large
amounts
of cheap leverage, supported by implicit government backing.
Wholesale debt funds only 10% of these assets, but
amounts
to €841 billion, or 41% of French GDP.
According to a 2009 study by the European Central Bank, the five largest CDS dealers were party to almost half of the total outstanding notional amounts, while the 10 largest CDS dealers accounted for 72% of the trades.
Relinquishing some control over national budgets to achieve fiscal integration appears politically impossible, and talk of treaty changes – even if it comes from the German finance minister –
amounts
to little more than empty rhetorical finery.
Not surprisingly, the value of wealth rose much faster than that of income during this period, because the value of the assets that comprise wealth
amounts
essentially to the net present value of their expected future cash flows, discounted at the current interest rate.
Instead of, say, building a new headquarters, renting a storefront, or purchasing a restaurant – traditional requirements that demanded large
amounts
of up-front capital – they can open a satellite sales office, create an online store, or launch a food truck.
In order to stop these securities’ downward slide – and thus to save itself – the ECB bought these government bonds and announced that, if need be, it would do so in unlimited
amounts.
These cities’ combined population stands at 155 million (11.5% of China’s total population), and their GDP
amounts
to $2.1 trillion (29.1% of China’s total output).
While there is only so much land in any one of the existing superstar cities, in every case, there are vast
amounts
of land where a new city could be started.
Assuming that quadrupling of relative value occurred over a hundred years, the excess return on investment
amounts
to only 1.5% per year – hardly the kind of performance that real estate enthusiasts are expecting.
But it
amounts
to essentially the same thing: when the chips were down, the most powerful governments in the world (on paper, at least) deferred again and again to the needs and wishes of people who had lent money to big banks.
Indeed, the International Renewable Energy Agency estimates that the continent’s potential for wind and solar power alone
amounts
to more than 1.5 trillion gigawatt hours a year.
In the 1990’s, the Japanese central bank injected huge
amounts
of money into banks in an attempt to boost the money supply.
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