Balance
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Success will require individual enterprises – and particularly those with a global reach – to think beyond their
balance
sheets, and to take on responsibilities that traditionally have not been central to their missions.
While some of the funds serve that purpose and must be held in the most liquid form, most of these large holdings are investment funds that will be managed to
balance
risk and return.
Countries with large reserves are now overweight dollars, and their effort to
balance
risks will cause the value of the euro to rise again relative to the dollar.
The private-sector financial
balance
swung from a deficit of 3.7% of GDP in 2006, at the height of the boom, to a surplus of about 6.8% of GDP in 2010 and about 5% today.
China’s Made-in-America Success StoryNEW DELHI – America’s strategy in Asia for more than a century has sought a stable
balance
of power to prevent the rise of any hegemon.
In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt, who hosted the peace conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after the Russo-Japanese War, argued for the return of Manchuria to Manchu-ruled China and for a
balance
of power in East Asia.
Yet it is also true that the US is uneasy about China’s not-too-hidden aim to dominate Asia – an objective that runs counter to US security and commercial interests and to the larger goal of securing a
balance
in power in Asia.
Despite America’s “pivot” to Asia, it intends to stick to its two-pronged approach: seek to maintain a
balance
of power with the help of strategic allies and partners, while continuing to accommodate a rising China.
But, as I point out in my new book Kasino-Kapitalismus , this may only be a temporary improvement in expectations rather than a sign of permanent recovery, as the size of the banks’ hidden losses on their
balance
sheets is probably enormous.
For the US and Switzerland, this is particularly bad news, as in both countries the realized write-offs already amount to 53% and 54% of the aggregate
balance
sheets of their national banking systems, which corresponds to 4.4% or 15.0% of GDP, respectively.
Banks would scale down their
balance
sheets in proportion to their reported equity losses and exacerbate the credit crunch from which the world is already suffering today.
This question is particularly pertinent with respect to China and Russia, each of which is large enough to help shift the
balance
of world power against democracy.
The possibility for more unconventional monetary policies will be limited by bloated
balance
sheets and the lack of headroom to cut policy rates.
If a homeowner defaults, creditors can take the house, but they cannot take other property or income to make up any unpaid
balance.
A big difference, however, was the turnaround in Germany’s external balance, with annual deficits in the 1990’s swinging to a substantial surplus in recent years, thanks to its trade partners in the eurozone and, more recently, the rest of the world.
By 1933, the services
balance
was strengthening as well.
The current account of the
balance
of payments swung from deficit in 1949 to surplus in 1950, and GDP rose strongly.
Several consequences follow from this divergence: difficulties in policy coordination, given no agreement on the diagnosis; a very probable return to large US external deficits while Europe remains in balance; and a weaker dollar, which will become evident if the crisis in the eurozone subsides.
All this could greatly complicate managing the G-20, and risks obscuring the question that all should be addressing: how to manage a global economy in which the
balance
between advanced and emerging countries is shifting at great speed.
After all, it conducts a comprehensive triennial Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), which provides a detailed assessment of the role that wealth and
balance
sheets play in shaping the behavior of a broad cross-section of American consumers.
France is the largest country in Europe to have so much trouble finding its
balance.
Countries that are near the point where “can’t pay” becomes “won’t pay” have high interest rates relative to benchmark “safe” debt issued by other governments, because even small shocks can shift the
balance
for decision-makers towards default.
On balance, therefore, European and American women work about the same amount of hours.
Central-bank
balance
sheets have swelled, and policy rates have reached their “near zero” lower bounds.
And, as eurozone banks and public-debt markets become increasingly balkanized, establishing a banking union, a fiscal union, and an economic union while pursuing macroeconomic policies that restore growth, external balance, and competitiveness will be extremely difficult.
A better
balance
between production and consumption would avoid large swings in oil prices.
In Ireland and Spain, transferring the banking system’s huge losses to the government’s
balance
sheet – on top of already-escalating public debt – will eventually lead to sovereign insolvency.
The real depreciation necessary to restore external
balance
would drive the real value of euro debts even higher, making them even more unsustainable.
In all three countries, tourism is an important sector for employment and the
balance
of payments, and expenditures have been rising when measured in euros.
In recent weeks, China announced a 12.6% increase in its defense spending;America’s CIA director, Porter Goss, testified about a worsening military
balance
in the Taiwan Strait; and President George W. Bush pleaded with Europeans not to lift their embargo on arms sales to China.
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