Balance
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Many European banks may not have understood this, yet they still shied away from revealing these dubious investments on their
balance
sheets.
This spring will show the necessary write-offs in the annual
balance
sheets, but the full truth will not become known before the 2008
balance
sheets are published in the spring of 2009.
With a cyclical mindset and fiscal space exhausted, a new round of quantitative easing (QE2) might be defended as a strategy for mitigating the tail risk of another downturn in asset markets (mainly housing) and households’
balance
sheets – and with it the possibility of a deflationary dynamic.
In short, the World Bank’s management and member countries need to work together to create a faster, more responsive institution, one that exploits its unique advantages to
balance
aid flows, provide counter-cyclical support, and offer meaningful advice.
This step, combined with further differentiation among supplier countries and progress toward implementing renewable-energy technologies, would invert the
balance
of power between the EU (Russia’s most important customer for oil and natural gas) and the Kremlin.
A technological leap that raises the wages of the skilled and educated will induce others to become skilled and educated, restoring
balance
so that inequality does not grow too much.
That panic subsided – and gold prices started to drift down again – after US banks were subjected to “stress tests,” America’s Troubled Asset Relief Program further backstopped the financial system by removing bad assets from banks’
balance
sheets, and the global economy gradually bottomed out.
Indeed, a key challenge in financing infrastructure investment in emerging economies is that many of the commercial banks (mainly European) that had a significant presence in the past have withdrawn – and are unlikely to return until they repair their crisis-hit
balance
sheets and build capital to meet strengthened regulatory standards.
The trouble with currency undervaluation is that, unlike conventional industrial policy, it spills over into the trade
balance.
To accommodate the needs of the emerging economies, as well as the interests of advanced countries, a new system will be needed, in which exchange rates are managed but adjusted according to criteria that
balance
domestic growth and global stability.
But it is also possible that the PBOC has used China’s foreign-exchange reserves, without updating the published
balance
of payments accordingly.
If eurozone growth wildly outperforms expectations in the next few years, banks’
balance
sheets would strengthen and German taxpayers’ pockets would deepen.
But with the non-agricultural sectors of the economy declining and external trade and the
balance
of payments weakening because of the global economic slowdown, fiscal prudence will be harder to accomplish.
Even Japan’s strategically myopic current government seems to understand that Russia needs to play some role in achieving a new
balance
of power in Asia.
This is particularly true for the appointment of an ambassador to a country that is critical to Asia’s
balance
of power.
Only normal bilateral relations will allow the two countries to work together to forge a lasting Asian
balance
of power.
The implications for the present are important: the only palatable way in which the necessary
balance
between liability and security can be achieved is through a process of political reform that dissolves corrupt oligarchies and weakens incentives for fiscal imprudence.
The banks, having been recapitalized only to the extent necessary to keep them afloat, still have weak
balance
sheets.
The government believes that criticism from both sides suggests that the laws strike an appropriate
balance.
At a time when democracies are struggling with various models of welfarism, seeking to
balance
the imperative of fiscal retrenchment with alleviating the insecurity of vulnerable populations, India has moved in a direction that few thought possible for a developing country.
Alas, there is an important twist today that wasn’t in play back then –central banks’ swollen
balance
sheets.
Yet when central banks’
balance
sheets finally start to shrink, asset-dependent economies will once again be in peril.
And the risks are likely to be far more serious today than a decade ago, owing not only to the overhang of swollen central bank
balance
sheets, but also to the overvaluation of assets.
For political balance, we needed a representative of the far-right National Front (FN), then led by Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Indeed, in the new global balance, where football has become much more than sport, Europe is back with a vengeance.
But while tariffs can change the composition of trade flows, they will have little bearing on the current-account balance, which is determined by national savings and investment.
To be sure, tariffs can have an incidental effect on the current-account
balance.
Nevertheless, this effect on the savings-investment
balance
is both weak and indirect.
The challenge is to find the proper point of
balance
– the “fair compromise” – between the parties.
Perhaps the most important difference between the two deals is that Greece’s fate, though relevant to the world economy, mostly concerns Europe, whereas the accord with Iran has far-reaching consequences, from the
balance
of power in the Middle East to global nuclear non-proliferation.
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