Balance
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The
balance
of assets and liabilities does not justify the gloom.
Technology is accelerating a shift in the
balance
of power between governments and governed that offers both opportunities for democratic accountability and obstacles to inclusive politics.
Following the 1991
balance
of payments crisis, the rupee's exchange rate was devalued around 20%.
It is a question of balance, competence, and respect.
Government-bond yields, which rose sharply in the run-up to the referendum, have so far remained steady; if they were to spike, however, Italian banks’ fragile
balance
sheets would deteriorate further.
Since they lack the legitimate authority of elected or high-level appointed officials, bureaucratic entrepreneurs must remain cognizant of the need to
balance
initiative with loyalty.
On balance, that is easily 1-1.5 percentage points below the developed world’s longer-term, or potential, growth trend – a worrisome outcome, to say the least, for employment, deflation risk, global trade, and export-dependent developing economies, such as China, which remain heavily reliant on external demand in developed countries.
Macroeconomic stability refers to the absence of inflation, budget balance, a realistic value for the exchange rate, the ability of businesses and government to obtain market loans, and high confidence that government financial obligations will be honored.
And, while no one can be certain about where the limits lie, there are both theoretical and operational bounds to how many government bonds can (and should) be placed on the
balance
sheet of a modern, well-functioning central bank.
One would expect that the trade
balance
soon turns around and helps put a stop to any furthersharpYen rise.
But that is slow in coming; in the meantime, the Japanese financial market furiously adjusts to the rising Yen by doing exactly the wrong thing: they sell off dollar assets, dump dollar earnings to move their
balance
sheets and income flows into Yen.
The prudent approach would be to strike a better
balance
between saving and spending.
Its two key proposals are a set of criteria (including last resort, proportionality, and
balance
of consequences) to be taken into account before the Security Council mandates any use of military force, and a monitoring-and-review mechanism to ensure that such mandates’ implementation is seriously debated.
Later on, the Stability and Growth Pact added a requirement that, over the medium term, government accounts should be "close to balance."
The scale of the penalties is now large enough to have a substantial impact on banks’
balance
sheets, delay the restoration of their health, and constrain their lending capacity.
These complaints are all the more peculiar given that Germany is a major beneficiary of the OMT announcement: its direct financial risks, via balances in the eurozone’s Target2 system and the size of the ECB’s
balance
sheet, have shrunk, despite the eurozone recession.
Many banks would have a similar problem: a collapse in US Treasury prices (the counterpart of higher interest rates, as bond prices and interest rates move in opposite directions) would destroy their
balance
sheets.
Was it business as usual or an irresponsible move contributing to a dangerous shift in the
balance
of power in the Baltic and Black Seas?
The idea that you can play a Medvedev card to
balance
Putin is a dangerous illusion.
The sale of such warship will not positively affect the
balance
of power within Russia, but it will affect the regional
balance
of power – in favor of Russia.
More importantly, with the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was no longer available as an Indian ally, and the US began to assess India and Pakistan in terms of separate interests, rather than as a pair linked in a South Asia
balance
of power.
As Bill Emmott, the former editor of The Economist argues in his new book The Rivals , “where Nixon had used China to
balance
the Soviet Union, Bush was using India to
balance
China.
If the central bank attempts to spur inflation by expanding its own
balance
sheet through monetary expansion and by lowering interest rates, it will cause the budget deficit to fall further, reinforcing the cycle.
But the policy also impaired the private sector’s
balance
sheet, because it functioned as a tax on financial institutions.
Private- and public-sector deleveraging in the advanced economies has barely begun, with
balance
sheets of households, banks and financial institutions, and local and central governments still strained.
But the new approach is also based on the recognition that China’s continued development depends on a healthy
balance
between ecology and economy.
The treaties mark an attempt to
balance
action and ambition in a context of economic crisis, fiscal consolidation, large-scale defense transformations, increasing interdependencies, and global threats – from terrorism and nuclear proliferation to climate change, resource scarcity, and epidemics – that are impossible to tackle unilaterally.
As the applicability of a vaccine-based approach to malaria has not yet been demonstrated, what anti-malaria efforts must above all strive to achieve is a
balance
between interventions designed to produce immediate health benefits and those that might eliminate malaria as an obstacle to economic development.
To strengthen this new institutional balance, Sarkozy is considering providing the opposition with a formal status, thus turning it into a real alternative power, and he wants to review the constitution’s Article 16, which gives excessive power to the president in times of crisis.
But, while necessary, this strategy threatens to upset the delicate
balance
between private- and public-sector expansion that has underpinned China’s expansion so far.
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