Balance
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The first decisive consideration will be the operational feasibility of the negotiation process, which means striking a politically acceptable
balance
between winners and losers throughout the enlarged Union.
Deficit fetishism never makes sense – the national debt is only one side of a country’s
balance
sheet.
Its net export position and current-account
balance
improves.
The Congress of Vienna reinstated the principle of the
balance
of power, based on the belief that all parties shared a common interest transcending their respective ambitions, and re-established the Concert of Nations, which for two generations stopped territorial and ideological revisionism of the type seen from 1789 to 1815.
Consider Mexico's trade
balance
with the US since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect.
The Fed bought Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities, increasing its
balance
sheet from $900 billion in 2008 to about $4.5 trillion now.
The Fed is now in the process of shrinking its
balance
sheet, forcing the market to buy more bonds and therefore raising interest rates.
Instead, European companies slashed annual investment by more than €100 billion ($113 billion) a year from 2008 to 2015, and have stockpiled some €700 billion of cash on their
balance
sheets.
Governments agree to accept the rulings of the World Trade Organization because on
balance
they benefit from an international trading order even if a particular decision requires that they alter a practice that is their sovereign right to carry out.
The goal should be to redefine sovereignty for the era of globalization, to find a
balance
between a world of fully sovereign states and an international system of either world government or anarchy.
If this perspective has prevailed in the internal policy debate, Chinese leaders, including Xi, could have reached the fateful conclusion that, on balance, America’s security presence in Asia directly threatens Chinese interests and must be eliminated.
The budget
balance
equals government outlays minus revenues.
But this
balance
devolved into paralysis, as the parties consistently failed to overcome their differences to make progress toward a constitution.
In 2013, it ordered new elections that changed the political balance, with the Nepali Congress emerging as the largest party and forming a coalition government with the Communists.
The US current account, which was last in
balance
in 1991, hit a record deficit of $801 billion (6% of GDP) in 2006.
If global growth is to be sustainable and equitable, we will need to alter the
balance
between rapid urbanization and the unrelenting consumption of resources that it fuels.
Governments or commercial banks distributing the money would be credited with a deposit or be given cash, but no claim would be created on the left-hand side of the central bank’s
balance
sheet.
This type of single accounting would reduce the central bank’s equity capital, unless it realized (sold) valuation reserves on its
balance
sheet.
Banks, firms, and households are still cleaning up their
balance
sheets and working off the heaps of debt they amassed during the credit boom that preceded the bust.
While his presidency has been widely criticized, it also had significant achievements: legalizing gay marriage, making France a party to the Paris climate agreement, and restoring some
balance
to social-welfare spending.
Yet, on balance, the available evidence suggests that immigrants do not reduce wages for native-born workers.
In this process of energy integration, the banking union offers clues about how to secure common interests and maintain a
balance
among the EU’s main institutions – the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Council, and the ECB.
With Pakistan’s future in the balance, the West’s help and support will be crucial, but that means recognizing that Musharraf is not the only leader who can resolve Pakistan’s myriad problems and manage the war on terror.
This upset the
balance
of the Franco-German axis around which the EU as a whole had long turned.
As individuals, we are unhappy if we are denied our basic material needs, but we are also unhappy if the pursuit of higher incomes replaces our focus on family, friends, community, compassion, and maintaining internal
balance.
A more sensible approach is to
balance
America’s real and pressing security needs in Afghanistan with a more wholesome policy in Central Asia.
Europe has long known that it could never
balance
America in the realm of “hard power”; but, with the decline of America’s “soft power,” it became more important than ever to incarnate the “humane” and law-abiding face of the West.
In Lebanon, for example, the arrival of more than one million Syrians has sparked worries that the country’s sectarian
balance
could be altered, undermining its fragile political system.
The budget deficit has fallen markedly, while companies and households, too, have continued to strengthen their
balance
sheets.
Fortunately, Macron’s program recognizes elements of the German approach, such as the need to
balance
the budget in the long term, which suggests that, under his leadership, a Franco-German compromise might be possible.
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