Balance
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First, it would include credible plans in Europe and the US to restore fiscal
balance.
In the US, the main challenge is to restore fiscal
balance
without damaging the recovery and future growth.
Getting the
balance
correct is complicated by the fact that the right fears the left will use fiscal stimulus as a path to permanently larger government, a path that the right (and apparently the general public) is unwilling to follow.
The fourth item concerns the fact that the global economy will be out of
balance
so long as the US runs large current-account deficits.
If growth in the trade sector boosts that of domestic non-trade sectors, then a fixed exchange rate will not put pressure on the external
balance
of payments as demand for imports rises.
Indeed, if foreign-owned enterprises exports are deducted from the total trade volume, the surplus vanishes, because both the overall
balance
of merchandise trade and the
balance
of trade in services normally run deficits.
Lowering interest rates below zero, however, has hurt banks’
balance
sheets, reducing their lending capacity.
Meanwhile, asset purchases have caused the
balance
sheets of major central banks to swell to unprecedented levels.
The structural primary budget balance, the International Monetary Fund’s preferred measure of “fiscal thrust,” tightened by an additional 1-1.5% of GDP each year from 2010 to 2012, after which it remained broadly stable.
It strengthens banks’
balance
sheets by reducing the volume of non-performing loans.
Similarly, the more that recovery and sustained growth strengthen banks’
balance
sheets, the less urgency policymakers feel to address structural shortcomings, such as the implicit guarantees enjoyed by state banks and municipal savings banks in Germany, and the problems of family-controlled banks like Banco Espirito Santo in Portugal.
Moreover, the crisis-related damage to banks’
balance
sheets constrained demand by severely limiting household credit and lending to small and medium-size businesses.
One reason is that rebalancing is needed when a defective growth pattern distorts the economy’s structure, particularly the
balance
between the tradable and non-tradable sectors.
In fact, a sort of
balance
of terror obstructed any major reallocations by the big holders of reserves.
Rather than trying to nudge investors toward certain outcomes and explicit numerical targets, Yellen and other central bankers need to communicate more clearly how they think about risks and opportunities in the economy and financial markets, and then let private investors decide the
balance
of risk and reward for themselves.
But this created a gap in the government’s
balance
sheet between direct payments and the savings from the cut in subsidies.
Iran has three options for overcoming its current economic hardships: restructure the economy,
balance
the budget, and promote exports through a robust fiscal policy.
But Congress was wrong to set the bilateral
balance
as a criterion in the first place.
He thinks this will improve the US trade balance, but does not understand that if foreign exporters are cut off from the US market, they will not have the dollars to buy US goods.
The aftermath of the August crisis may be the moment to think seriously about how to
balance
continued sanctions on North Korea with deeper economic and social ties.
On the asset side of the
balance
sheet, the auditors would be bound to note that the Board has done much useful work.
He favors a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, and hopes to
balance
the budget over eight years.
Member countries could borrow at practically the same interest rate as Germany, and banks were happy to earn a few extra pennies by loading up their
balance
sheets with the government debt of the eurozone’s weaker economies.
The Federal Reserve would be forced to lower interest rates further, making the dollar even less attractive, and the concomitant shift in global demand away from the US, marked by a sharp decline in the US trade balance, would put still more pressure on the dollar.
Will it really
balance
the budget by slashing education spending at a time when US students already are being out-performed by their Asian counterparts?
By the end of the 1990s, they had restored macroeconomic balance, but implemented merely superficial structural reforms.
Treasury recognizes, albeit implicitly, that no bankruptcy court can deal with the complex globally interconnected liabilities of JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, or other bank holding companies with over $500 billion on their
balance
sheets.
The main problem with the bankruptcy approach is the lack of Debtor-In-Possession financing for a complex global financial institution with an enormous
balance
sheet; without access to operational funding from the private sector, the entire process collapses – exactly the Lehman scenario.
Second, in the debate about fiscal consolidation and structural reform, Western economies have not yet achieved the right
balance
of deficit reduction, incentives for innovation, and macroeconomic stimulus, but there are signs of change coming from Brussels.
The regional
balance
of power is already tilting in Iran’s favor.
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