Balance
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Such an approach would
balance
commercial returns with affordability, global access, and conservation, while saving governments money in the long run.
At the beginning of the year, when Rousseff’s second presidential term officially began, her administration’s priorities were clear: implement a credible fiscal-adjustment program that would take the primary budget
balance
(which excludes interest payments) comfortably back into surplus and reduce the growth rate of public debt to sustainable levels.
An effective reform strategy would have to
balance
the need for budget restraint and macroeconomic stability with growth-enhancing policies.
Given that Germany and even France can borrow at record-low interest rates, any reasonably well-designed investment program will strengthen the public sector’s
balance
sheet.
HAMBURG – For US President Donald Trump, the measure of a country’s economic strength is its current-account
balance
– its exports of goods and services minus its imports.
Some will object that infrastructure and public services are nontraded goods, so more spending on them won’t boost imports or narrow the current-account
balance.
German authorities have been deplorably tolerant of commercial bank involvement in complex asset-backed securities investments, which were kept off their
balance
sheets via so-called “conduit” operations in Ireland.
For a short time, asset sales helped
balance
national budgets, and also provided resources for sustaining consumption.
If the external
balance
deteriorates further, the economy will be in for a hard landing.
The models for the
balance
of powers, the functioning of the judiciary, and local democracy must be inspired by European forms, which are closer to Georgian reality than Anglo-Saxon models of the American type.
Banks’
balance
sheets are systemically dangerous when bloated by leverage, and it is this that regulatory or fiscal policy should address through liquidity buffers and leverage ratios.
Booms have similar characteristics – strong growth in banks’
balance
sheets and credit, and therefore a rise in leverage.
The shift in the regional
balance
of gas-based power could in turn cause nationalists in Bolivia, Peru, and elsewhere to rethink their policies.
All of this, together with the wave of central bank accommodation worldwide (and prospects for more of the same), would seem to tilt the
balance
toward a more gradualist Fed approach to unwinding QE.
Perhaps most important, a weaker dollar’s effect on the trade balance, and thus on growth, is limited by two factors.
First, a weaker dollar is associated with a higher dollar price for commodities, which implies a drag on the trade balance, because the US is a net commodity-importing country.
Empirical studies estimate that the overall impact of a weaker US dollar on the trade
balance
is close to zero.
While NATO enlargement did not bring any real security threats toward Russia, it changed the military
balance
between Russia and the West, fueling the Kremlin’s revisionism.
Russia’s insistence on a
balance
of power approach, and its mercantilist geopolitical philosophy, is stimulating the re-nationalization of the foreign policy of EU member states.
To give him credit, Americas President has not yet lost his
balance
on that narrow path.
The first relates to
balance
sheets.
The West has no choice but to strike a better
balance
– between capital and labor, between current and future generations, and between the financial sector and the real economy.
These activities both damage the PBOC’s
balance
sheet and constrain monetary policy.
Given large potential revenues – in 2008, the CBO estimated that one proposal would yield $145 billion in 2012 and more in subsequent years – it would make sense to dedicate a portion to cushioning the impact of higher energy prices on the poor, while applying the rest to the fiscal
balance.
For example, China’s bankruptcy law, enacted in 2006, required 12 years to negotiate, as factions within the Congress, the CCP, and the executive branch struggled to
balance
the interests of workers and creditors.
In short, the Netherlands has restructured its economic value chain to accommodate a new division of labor between humans and machines, embracing new kinds of economic activity – especially part-time work and solo entrepreneurship – to
balance
human needs with technological advances.
State- and local-government budgets are improving, the housing market is strengthening, and households are deleveraging and repairing their
balance
sheets.
Practically speaking, this would overturn the
balance
of power in the Middle East, with grave consequences well beyond the region; morally, it would be a cruel betrayal of the Syrian opposition and a boon to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
With today’s businesses expected to contribute more to society than just what is on their
balance
sheets, there is a new impetus to base corporate taxation partly on a firm’s social footprint.
On balance, it thus seems that this time – or, rather, this post-crisis environment – really is different, and that macroeconomic policies have done little to improve matters.
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