Balance
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But the
balance
sheet with respect to strengthening democracy isn’t nearly as favorable.
Germany never really accepted Monti's decision to bar government guarantees on the
balance
sheets of its Landesbanken, the powerful regional banks.
New Moscow-Beijing Ties Worry AsiaTOKYO: The emerging "strategic partnership" between Russia and China, symbolized by President Jiang Jemin’s visit to Moscow in April, has significant implications for diplomacy and the military
balance
of power throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Compiling an accurate
balance
sheet – knowledge that is, despite its importance, shockingly rare in most cities – is a crucial step toward adopting a management-focused approach.
"All the free education and health care gives a certain balance," said a prominent writer.
But "it's not a total disaster because people have this balance."
Certainly, a few countries have struck a fair balance, addressing violence for a relatively small outlay; so there are ways to reduce unnecessary expenditure.
Apart from the obvious humanitarian reasons for investing in peace, especially when carried out within established international development frameworks, such investment is also one of the most cost-effective ways to develop an economy and
balance
a budget.
For purposes of both legality and legitimacy, it is vital to ensure that an unwise and ineffective intervention does not undermine the overall
balance
of legal rights and obligations in the UN Charter and related human rights and humanitarian norms.
Prior to the neoliberal Reagan-Thatcher “revolution” of the 1980s, the economic consensus was that inequality and poverty were inherent to capitalism, and that a strong, well-financed government was needed to
balance
a market economy’s inevitable adverse effects on the distribution of income and wealth.
The
balance
is not reported on the ECB’s
balance
sheet, since it is zero in the aggregate, but it does show up on the respective
balance
sheets of the national central banks as interest-bearing claims against, and liabilities to, the ECB system.
Managing the transformation of China’s regional economies while preserving social stability will demand a careful
balance
between the old growth strategy exemplified by the losers, which relied heavily on state-owned enterprises and public investment, and the new, more human-capital-oriented approach being developed by the winners.
When the excess demand is for liquid assets used as means of payment – for “money” – the natural response is to have the central bank buy government bonds for cash, thus increasing the money stock and bringing supply back into
balance
with demand.
When the excess demand is for longer-term assets – bonds to serve as vehicles for savings that move purchasing power from the present into the future – the natural response is twofold: induce businesses to borrow more and build more capacity, and encourage the government to borrow and spend, thus bringing the supply of bonds back into
balance
with demand.
Carrying the scenario further, one could even dream up an optimistic outlook for the UK’s trade balance, with a highly competitive exchange rate significantly improving demand in its major market, the eurozone.
After expeditiously restoring confidence in the banks by forcing them to undergo severe stress tests, they gave households time to repair their
balance
sheets.
At this stage, struggling European countries evidently cannot afford to put public-sector adjustment on hold to concentrate on private-sector
balance
sheets.
Finally, attention should be paid to the
balance
between fiscal tightening and supply-side reforms: whenever appropriate, more priority should be given to the latter than has been the case so far.
The fewer external constraints, the better: peace and security result from a
balance
of great powers.
The implication is that banks are being asked to sequester part of the asset side of their
balance
sheets – and this naturally leads to the perception that somehow “less is available” to lend, for example, to the real (non-financial) economy.
Capital, in this context, is simply a synonym for equity, which is on the liability side of a bank’s (or anyone’s)
balance
sheet.
Six years after the world’s largest financial crisis, our megabanks have equity amounting to no more than 5% of their
balance
sheets.
But striking the proper
balance
is challenging.
But Clinton turned things around, appointing new aides, moving toward the political center, winning reelection in 1996, and working with a Republican-controlled Congress to
balance
the budget and reform welfare.
To strike an effective balance, the action plan proposes two publicly owned investment funds – one raising money from institutional investors, and the other from individuals.
Like Austria-Hungary, the EU’s raison d’etre consists in its ability to transcend the indigenous
balance
of power among its members, and the service this renders to the international system.
An unwillingness to lend and expensive loans in foreign currencies are a real burden to eastern
balance
sheets.
Indeed, the European Central Bank is dithering about how much to expand its
balance
sheet with purchases of sovereign bonds, while the Bank of Japan only now decided to increase its rate of quantitative easing, given evidence that this year’s consumption-tax increase is impeding growth and that next year’s planned tax increase will weaken it further.
This would require explicitly changing the
balance
between constitutional and legislative matters, so that principles are preserved, but policies can be responsive to politics.
Much of their credibility, however, depended on a fragile
balance
of power.
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