Balance
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The bad loans, in turn, have created massive holes in banks’
balance
sheets, which have to be repaired.
Household
balance
sheets are weaker.
The holes in financial institutions’
balance
sheets should be filled in a transparent way.
But turning them over to the government at market value doesn’t improve banks’
balance
sheet; to do that requires overpaying for the assets, a transfer of wealth from ordinary taxpayers to the banks..
This will be a welfare state based on a new
balance
of solidarity and individual effort.
The immediate diplomatic impact, of course, was to reshape Eurasia’s geopolitical
balance
and put the Soviet Union on the defensive.
Second, Chinese
balance
sheets carry too much debt relative to equity.
Such crises cause major negative demand shocks, as excess debt and falling asset prices damage
balance
sheets, which then require increased savings to heal – a combination that is lethal to growth.
Meanwhile, capital is accumulating on high-net-worth
balance
sheets and in sovereign-wealth funds.
In addition, how will Singh
balance
the trade-off between pro-market and pro-poor policies?
An increase on that scale is associated in their model with a 0.3-percentage-point reduction in annual growth, and twice that in a housing-market crisis, given the high proportion of mortgage lending on EU banks’
balance
sheets.
According to a 2012 study by Andrew G. Haldane of the Bank of England, the financial crisis caused failures in around half of the 101 banks with
balance
sheets larger than $100 billion as of 2006.
Only decisive progress on these fronts will unlock the trillions of corporate dollars that, rather than being invested in new plants and equipment, remain stranded on companies’
balance
sheets or are handed over to shareholders via higher dividends and share buybacks.
So, as with other complex issues, politicians need to
balance
voter aspirations with expert views.
These political transitions could compound East Asia’s challenges, which include the need to institute a regional
balance
of power and dispense with historical baggage that weighs down interstate relationships, particularly among China, Japan, and South Korea.
After all, the DPJ came to power on a promise to
balance
Japan’s dependence on the US with closer ties with the People’s Republic.
A Serbian insurgency and de facto partition of Kosovo remain possible, and we have yet to face the destabilizing effects of Kosovo’s claim to independence on other divided Balkan states such as Bosnia and Macedonia But the
balance
sheet is even worse in terms of international relations.
On balance, I believe that I was right to oppose the Kosovo war.
If it does not, the entire
balance
of power in the traditional Middle East conflict between Israel and the Palestinians could collapse.
Though $3.6 trillion of incremental liquidity has been added to the Fed’s
balance
sheet since late 2008, nominal GDP was up by just $2.5 trillion from the third quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of this year.
The challenge is to
balance
our obligations to all of our stakeholders, both customers and shareholders, including the pension funds that help millions of people around the world save for retirement.
The current crisis has come to be called a “balance-sheet recession” of global scope and tremendous depth and destructive power because of its origins in the
balance
sheets of the financial and household sectors.
Somewhere in the system, accountability for stability and sustainability in terms of asset valuation, leverage, and
balance
sheets will need to be assigned and taken seriously.
In the current crisis, a substantial fraction of countries outside the G-20 are essentially defenseless: small relatively poor economies, no fiscal capacity for stimulus, and inadequate reserves to offset the capital outflows that occurred to shore up damaged
balance
sheets in advanced markets.
There are, of course, dissidents, and the
balance
could shift quickly.
But the
balance
of power between Germany and France could shift as soon as a formal decision to go ahead with EMU is taken.
The training provided by France, Britain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates played a critical role last year in shifting the
balance
in favor of Libyan opposition forces, and it could have a similar impact in Syria.
In terms of the global economic
balance
of power, however, the impact of globalization and digitization remains difficult to predict.
A third factor that weighs in the
balance
in analyzing what sort of government the FMLN may deliver is the economic crisis that is battering Latin America.
It will be a major policy challenge to get this
balance
right.
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