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They arguably add little to three prior sanction resolutions that ban the export of nuclear and ballistic-missile technology and conventional arms, and that freeze the assets and travel of a handful of Iranian officials.
In addition, a freeze on Libya’s financial assets abroad and exports of oil equipment cost the country an estimated $33 billion in revenue, exacerbating already high unemployment and inflation rates.
By freezing Iranian assets outside of Iran, the UN was hitting the IRGC where it hurt, in its pocketbook.
They are accumulating assets now so they can de-accumulate them later, when old-age dependency ratios are higher.
Even if the three German banks most stricken by the credit crunch – Sachsen LB, IKB, and West LB – had technically complied with capital adequacy requirements, their “conduits” represented high risk factors at around 30%, 20%, and 13% of their total assets, respectively.
Ten years ago, non-domestic assets were barely one-sixth of the total European assets of the EU’s largest banks; the proportion today has grown to one-third.
By contrast, the proportion of assets held outside the EU is almost unchanged.
Assets were sold and national debts ballooned, but almost nothing lasting and beneficial was gained.
Worse still, the sell-off of state assets was accompanied by massive external borrowing.
Brazil and Mexico are prime examples of countries that sold assets and borrowed rather than saved.
Paying down debt on credit cards or mortgages also counts as saving – but increases in the value of existing assets like stocks or real estate do not, even though they increase the value of household wealth.
The problem, the parrot would say, is that households and businesses are still trying to build up their stocks of safe, high-quality assets, and are switching expenditures from buying currently-produced goods and services to increasing their shares of an inadequate supply of government liabilities.
They will agree with the parrots that falling inflation showed that the macroeconomic problem was insufficient demand for currently produced goods and services, and that the low level of interest rates on safe, high-quality government liabilities showed that the supply of safe assets – whether money provided by the central bank, guarantees provided by banking policy, or government debt provided through deficit spending – was too low.
Market risk is best hedged through a combination of diversification across assets and enough time to decide when to sell.
But Turkey has no reason to attack the assets of foreign oil companies.
Will it lead to a persistent increase in risky assets, especially in US and other global equity markets?
Many now argue that QE3’s effect on risky assets should be as powerful, if not more so, than that of QE1, QE2, and “Operation Twist,” the Fed’s earlier bond-purchase program.
Privatisation of state assets has done much for the economy, but has also been used for patronage and empire building.
Yet, taken together, the EU countries possess a considerable array of assets, including the military capability needed to conduct decisive operations.
This is as much a matter of principle as of cold, strategic calculation, and it is here where the ESDP has much to offer: a long-term view, supported by a powerful economy with the assets needed to carry out humanitarian operations, conflict prevention, crisis management, and security support.
Clarifying the relationship between currency and finance is essential to ensuring that all newly issued currency is backed by assets.
A purely free-market approach to the required energy transition would produce insufficient progress on emissions reductions and leave behind large stranded assets, representing trillions of dollars of wasted investment.
And the US today is by far the best source available for safe investment-grade assets on anything like the scale required.
First, the US would strike the PLA’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets from afar through a “blinding campaign,” in order to deny Chinese situational awareness and enable American forces to access the battleground.
When yields on risky bonds decline toward those on safe assets, it is fair to conclude, he argues, that someone is taking on excessive risk.
Others recommend monitoring the leverage ratio, particularly the ratio of capital to assets in the banking system, on the grounds that banks are the weak link in the financial chain.
Iran, in turn, charges that America is stalling on settling cases at the Hague that would release hundreds of millions of dollars in Iranian assets frozen since the 1979-80 hostage ordeal.
Nowadays such assets may constitute a liability.
As long as capital consisted largely of factories, heavy equipment and raw materials, there was little fear that assets could or would move, so governments held all the cards.
Substantial redeployments of US military forces and assets, triggered by the need for additional troops in Afghanistan and ongoing problems over the US-Japan status-of-forces agreement, are already taking place.
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