Buying
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Should they risk
buying
a new car when gasoline prices might soar again?
From their perspective, today’s high demand for long-term dollar-denominated securities is easily explained: Asian central banks are
buying
in order to hold down their currencies, the US Treasury is borrowing short (and thus not issuing that many long-term securities), and US companies are not undertaking the kinds of investments that would lead them to issue many long-term bonds.
Some have argued that even though the PBOC has stopped
buying
US and other foreign assets, China’s sovereign wealth funds still do, and that this, too, counts as manipulation.
If you can nourish yourself adequately without eating meat, isn’t
buying
meat needlessly causing, or at least being complicit in causing, the death of an animal?
Most Roman Catholics participate in this mistreatment, a few by raising chickens, ducks, and turkeys in ways that maximize profit by reducing animal welfare, and the majority by
buying
the products of factory farms.
But this still allowed the vultures to block the process by
buying
up a third of a particular bond issue.
China has been investing heavily recently in neighboring Ethiopia in the hope of
buying
neutrality from Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in the event of war, though the government in Addis Ababa is more likely to side with its Christian co-religionists in the South.
Qaddafi and his family have been spreading money around Europe for years,
buying
influence and a blind eye from governments to the regime’s human rights transgressions.
Now he must keep the promise that he made at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year to “push for more transparency on who owns companies; on who’s
buying
up land and for what purpose; on how governments spend their money; on how gas, oil, and mining companies operate; and on who is hiding stolen assets and how we recover and return them.”
Consequently it is the target of US complaints about unfair competition, and of efforts to force an exchange-rate adjustment that would deter Americans from
buying
Chinese toys, appliances, and clothing.
It has been several years since private investors and states began
buying
and leasing millions of hectares of farmland worldwide in order to secure their domestic supply of food, raw commodities, and biofuels, or to get subsidies for carbon storage through plantations.
More recently, however, it has been the Americans’ turn consistently to run large current-account deficits,
buying
more from the rest of the world than they earn by selling goods and services abroad.
This, rather than the fear that the ECB might end up
buying
the bonds of untrustworthy governments, is the real argument against QE in the eurozone.
In 1992, Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, allowed private bank equity holders to be wiped out, but it rescued depositors and creditors by
buying
up risky assets of failing institutions.
Given an expanded mandate and a much larger balance sheet, the International Monetary Fund, with advance notification, could in principle reliably act to stabilize volatile international capital flows,
buying
time for more orderly domestic responses.
Thanks partly to Englishnization, Rakuten has been able to expand outside Japan,
buying
e-commerce sites like Ebates in the United States and PriceMinister in France.
After several months of job hunting, I joined my brother in a business venture
buying
and selling apples, honey, and other goods in neighboring Tajikistan.
The US Department of Defense was the only customer for integrated circuits in 1962, but by the end of the decade consumers were
buying
transistor radios and pocket calculators in droves.
Countries such as Brazil and Argentina paid off their loans to the IMF ahead of time, while others are
buying
up their own debt in secondary markets.
In the meantime, the European Central Bank is intervening in the EFSF’s stead, and quite successfully so far: market tensions have eased markedly since the ECB began
buying
bonds on August 8.
Buying
low in Europe and selling high in China – that is, acting like an investor.
Even if owning oil assets is a useful hedge (as in a small, oil-consuming country), it is not clear that
buying
stakes in opaque companies in foreign countries is the best strategy.
Indeed, one can imagine black marketeers and smugglers
buying
where grain is available and transporting it to sell to countries where it is not.
As is typical of a financial bubble, investors are
buying
cryptocurrencies not to use in transactions, but because they expect them to increase in value.
Moreover, by pushing interest rates toward zero, the current policy of quantitative easing (increasing money supply by
buying
government securities) has strong, often regressive, income effects.
All of the power projects will be Chinese-owned, with the Pakistani government committed to
buying
electricity from China at a pre-determined rate.
Moreover, the increased availability of credit cards gave Americans a greater ability to dissave,
buying
goods and services now and paying for them later.
The problem, the parrot would say, is that households and businesses are still trying to build up their stocks of safe, high-quality assets, and are switching expenditures from
buying
currently-produced goods and services to increasing their shares of an inadequate supply of government liabilities.
Investors have responded to these fears by
buying
gold, agricultural land, and other traditional inflation hedges.
An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one,
buying
it signals that the owner is rich.
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