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So far, both sides have been realistic, avoiding ideological or formalist postures – in part, a reflection of the new balance of forces.
Instead of engaging in preemptive military actions, the US should pursue preventive actions of a constructive nature, creating a better balance between carrots and sticks in the prevailing world order.
The advantage of a par bond is that Greece’s creditors – banks, insurance companies, and pension funds – would be able and allowed to continue valuing their Greek bonds at 100 cents on the euro, thereby avoiding massive losses on their balance sheets.
In particular, China’s spectacular income growth has been enabled by a delicate balance between the concentration of political power in the hands of the central leadership and the delegation of economic management to local authorities.
This balance has often proved difficult to maintain.
From November 2008 to November 2014, successive QE programs added $3.6 trillion to the Fed’s balance sheet, nearly 25% more than the $2.9 trillion expansion of nominal GDP over the same period.
The good collateral meant that banks could hold these debts at par on their balance sheets.
Today the balance of power is even more unfavorable.
Striking a balance between the conflicting imperatives of transparency and privacy will never be easy, especially when the political landscape is tilting toward ever-greater accountability.
Other macroeconomic policies of all kinds influence the current-account balance.
From 1960 to 1982, the current account was basically in balance, with a surplus averaging 0.2% of GDP.
Bush’s termination of the ground war in Iraq after only four days was motivated in part by humanitarian concerns about the slaughter of Iraqi troops, as well as by an interest in not leaving Iraq so weakened that it could not balance the power of neighboring Iran.
None of them is of a size that could upset the EU's current balance.
In order to evade such controls, banks are moving a larger share of their lending activities off of their balance sheets.
A weaker French economy, shakier public finances, and the coming presidential election are all combining to alter the balance with Germany.
But other forms of nationalism that better balance the local and the global are beneficial and worthy of affirmation.
It is up to intellectuals to recognize this and frame the arguments that can help governments strike the right balance between national, regional, and global commitments.
Instead, they launched destabilizing military interventions under the false pretense of advancing democracy, upending the fragile balance among religious and ethnic groups in countries like Iraq and Syria.
The crisis must also not become an excuse to create new institutional formats that jeopardize the delicate balance between the different EU institutions, a balance that – through appropriate adjustments – has been proven by the test of time.
And the countries of Southeast and East Asia could construct a Japanese-led variant of NATO to balance the domineering might of China.
When the rebalancing comes – and it has already been delayed longer than I would have thought likely – it is important that, as former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers used to say, the world economy balance up rather than down.
Without rapid demand growth somewhere in the developed world outside the US – and Germany and Japan are the best places to look – it is hard to see how the global economy can balance itself at a high level over the next few years.
This breeds arrogance and a sense of smug superiority over their counterparts – policymakers who must balance multiple, complicated agendas.
The technical remedies for restoring financial balance are rather straightforward and entail either explicit or implicit measures.
First, there is the balance of power in the Senate.
As a result, ample reserve funds have been created on the banks’ balance sheets and return on equity has remained high.
While emerging-market countries’ public-sector balance sheets are stronger than ever – with low deficits and debt accompanied by large foreign-currency reserves – household and corporate leverage have risen.
But leading powers such as Japan and India must show that they are ready and willing to bear the costs of maintaining the region’s balance of power, and to prevent the emergence of a Sino-centric Asia.
The country with the largest current-account surplus is, no surprise, China, with a positive balance of more than $300 billion.
Many countries now have over-heated property and equity markets; in the US, the S&P 500 index since 2009 has closely tracked the expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet.
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