Balance
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This means establishing a better
balance
between EU and national responsibilities; fully respecting the subsidiarity principle (according to which the EU should act only if a problem cannot be resolved at the local, regional, or national levels); improving the efficiency of spending and channeling it toward growth and job creation; reducing bureaucracy through better legislation; easing regulatory and administrative burdens; and enhancing transparency in every aspect of EU decision-making – from the Commission to the European Parliament.
They succeeded in offsetting nasty economic dislocations caused by private-sector deleveraging, but at the cost of encumbering their fiscal balances and their central banks’
balance
sheets.
A
balance
of energy imports and exports is only a first approximation of independence.
So, even if America had no other interests in the Middle East, such as Israel or nuclear non-proliferation, a
balance
of energy imports and exports would be unlikely to free the US from military expenditures – which some experts estimate run to $50 billion per year – to protect oil routes in the region.
For decades, the US and Saudi Arabia have had a
balance
of asymmetries in which we depended on them as the swing producer of oil, and they depended on us for ultimate military security.
A
balance
of energy imports and exports does not produce pure independence, but it does alter the power relations involved in energy interdependence.
But the need to strike a sensible
balance
remains.
The current account reflects an economy’s saving-investment
balance.
But when house prices fell and mortgage-backed securities (and derivatives based on them) became illiquid, Citigroup took the liabilities back onto its
balance
sheet – and then needed to be rescued through massive, repeated bailouts.
The
balance
of opinion among international scholars is that a small group around PKI leader Aidit was involved, but not in a way that even remotely implicated the entire party, or that could even begin to justify the bloody nationwide purge which followed.
From the beginning, members of his entourage worried about his volatility and mental
balance.
Two-thirds of the recent growth of banks’
balance
sheets in the UK represents internal claims among banks rather than claims between banks and non-financial firms – a clear case of money breeding money.
It would create its own set of incentives, which, on balance, would pressure individual countries to avoid demotion, just as top-tier football (soccer) teams seek to avoid relegation to the minor leagues.
And there would still be a need to decide how to
balance
efficiency and equity in the provision of services.
Finally, governments must implement regulations that strike a
balance
between protecting investors and consumers, and giving banks, retailers, and financial-technology and telecommunications companies room to compete and innovate.
All modern democratic societies must
balance
individual autonomy and social justice.
As a result, some banks that suspect that their
balance
sheets will be revealed to be weaker than they have so far acknowledged are cutting back on lending.
Indeed, that is why, on balance, a meritocratic system will always produce better results than a hereditary one.
Chile sets a target for its cyclically-adjusted fiscal
balance
– that is, the
balance
that emerges after accounting for the deviations in commodity prices and domestic output from their trends.
Finally, despite China’s status as one of the world’s largest net creditors, it has been running a deficit on its investment
balance
for years.
Nowhere is this truer than in Asia, where longstanding US strategic engagement, backed up by the world’s most advanced military, has maintained the
balance
of power for decades.
According to the Pew Global Attitude survey, there is a significant degree of convergence between East-Central Europeans and West Europeans concerning the
balance
between the market and a state-guaranteed social safety net.
On balance, however, throughout much of the world, people live longer, work much fewer hours, and lead generally healthier lives.
It also means getting the
balance
between domestic and external demand right, and appreciating the sensitivity of medium- and long-term growth to the composition (and size) of domestic aggregate demand.
The main point is that restoring growth requires a careful analysis of structural balance, attention to demand constraints in the non-tradable sector, and a focus on the impediments to expanding the tradable sector.
As a result, even with the same trade balance, China ends up with more foreign-exchange reserves, though using the RMB as a settlement currency is supposed to reduce their accumulation.
Just as in Italy, anti-EU nationalist parties like the League are gaining votes, and anti-establishment insurgencies like M5S – for example, Podemos in Spain, and Syriza in Greece – are either winning power outright or holding the
balance
of power between traditional pro-EU mainstream parties and anti-EU nationalist parties.
With Europe politically and geographically divided, Italy’s politics could tip the
balance.
The Greek crisis cannot be used either to weaken European conservatives and change the
balance
of power within the EU, or to remove the Greek left from office.
When America’s misguided war in Iraq deposed Saddam Hussein in 2003, it upset a delicate
balance.
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