Balance
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France can help to give NATO more
balance
by spreading political and military responsibilities more evenly among Europeans and Americans.
The real challenge for Chinese officials is how to
balance
creativity and institutional innovation with order, thereby ensuring the integrity of all four of its economy’s pillars.
Judging by non-financial firms’
balance
sheets, investment-to-profit ratios decreased from 1995 to 2014, with especially steep declines in Brazil, Malaysia, South Korea, and Turkey.
Beyond corporate governance, we must restore
balance
to the profit-investment relationship through institutional as well as public-policy initiatives, and with proactive industrial policies.
So Cline attempts to calculate where the optimal
balance
might lie, recognizing that to reduce the risk of bank failure to zero might carry irrationally high costs.
Think about the critical moment of decision – when a megabank, like JP Morgan Chase (with a
balance
sheet of roughly $2 trillion), may be on the brink of failure.
But the broad range of proposed schemes to bolster resources for development assistance raises hard questions about the appropriate
balance
between objective needs and sound and effective financing.
However, these reserves represent an important “hidden” asset that lends strength to the Fund’s
balance
sheet.
Moreover, the US will begin running primary budget surpluses – the fiscal
balance
minus interest payments on existing debt – by 2015.
But, to
balance
the budget in the long run, either taxes have to go up or spending has to go down relative to some baseline, or both.
But, they fear that calling for spending cuts will be unpopular, unlike, they hope, demands to
balance
the budget.
Spending cuts and tax increases that in the long run restore fiscal sanity and
balance
are good.
But, despite China’s position as one of the world’s largest creditors, its net investment-income
balance
is deeply negative.
As a result, whenever the US dollar declines, China’s net international-investment position (the difference between its external financial assets and liabilities) deteriorates – and so does its investment-income
balance.
As an “immature debtor-borrower,” its trade
balance
and current account are also in deficit; as a “mature debtor-borrower,” its trade
balance
enters surplus; and, as a “debtor-repayer,” its current account moves to surplus.
As an “immature creditor-lender,” the trade
balance
and current account are in surplus as well; as a “mature creditor-lender,” the trade
balance
returns to deficit; finally, as a “creditor-borrower,” the country’s current account swings into deficit.
Whether through inflation or collapsing government-bond prices, China will suffer significant capital losses on its foreign assets, further damaging its investment-income
balance.
Others – such as Bridges Ventures and Pacific Community Ventures – are using Community Development Financial Institutions and insurance-company
balance
sheets to expand the financing pool available to start-ups in disadvantaged communities.
Now that the play is over and the applause has died down, it is time to check the
balance
sheet and see how much Obama achieved and how much he conceded.
So, on balance, Obama’s first trip to China achieved relatively little.
However, the sizable deficit on the
balance
sheet of Obama’s China trip could have been much lower if Obama had paid more attention to substance.
And policymakers have long had to strike a
balance
between the abstract principle of openness and concrete measures to limit the worst effects of change.
Still, striking the right
balance
is never easy.
This narrow, short-term focus differs from the approach taken for publicly traded companies, for which the strength of the
balance
sheet and the economy’s potential are emphasized, alongside annual income statements.
Such investments would directly strengthen Germany’s public-sector
balance
sheet.
Doing so would strengthen their
balance
sheets, crowd in the private sector, and generate employment.
But the amounts had to be cut to the size of the transaction and weighed out with
balance
scales.
Archeologists still find elaborate (and probably expensive in those days) two-pan
balance
scales and weights on sunken bronze-age merchant ships.
It is no coincidence that from 2010 to 2014, the largest banks, firms, and investment funds increased their cash holdings by $3 trillion – roughly the amount by which central banks in reserve-currency countries expanded their
balance
sheets over the same period.
By enabling countries to eliminate excess capacity, reduce leverage, and
balance
tax policies – all while reducing geopolitical uncertainty – collective action to escape deflation and boost growth would mitigate financial institutions’ risk aversion, thereby improving the transmission mechanisms of unconventional monetary policies.
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