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Why would business leaders invest in an uncertain world, rather than paying dividends to demanding (but generally risk-averse) investors, or
buying
back some of their companies’ own shares (thereby improving the price/earnings ratio and, better yet, increasing their own remuneration)?
Buying
other countries’ bonds would mean abandoning the goal of keeping real currency values low against the dollar.
Buying
up whole enterprises triggers angry speeches in the US Congress.
The logic was simple: by
buying
dollars, China could cause the relative value of the dollar to rise, which meant that the value of the renminbi would fall.
Like certain products,
buying
from a country can also be habit-forming.
If people were really concerned about defensible moral values, they wouldn’t be
buying
designer clothes at all.
If
buying
dollars is not sufficient to stem the appreciation tide, regulators in emerging economies will erect an array of other barriers to keep money out.
But a country’s authorities can prevent appreciation for a prolonged period of time by
buying
up foreign currency.
The ECB is stealthily
buying
government bonds on the secondary market, but its new governor, Mario Draghi, insists that such intervention is temporary, limited, and intended solely to “restore the functioning of monetary transmission channels.”
Gazprom is
buying
up oil (Sibneft), gas, and power companies at knockdown prices, reinforcing its monopoly.
If Salvadorans’ wages are squeezed, they won’t be
buying
many products made in Los Angeles — unless, of course, they wind up moving there.
But are the incompetents – say, the average person who believes that
buying
cheap imports from China destroys Western jobs – always wrong?
Few in Hong Kong are
buying
the political elite’s mantra that the national education program is the “right” thing to do.
When retail investors sold off their holdings of such assets during the summer of 2013, institutional investors kept
buying.
A better rule for the ECB would be to conduct open-market operations by
buying
and selling a “neutral basket” of sovereign bonds, with each country’s share in the basket determined by its share in the ECB’s capital.
This “neutral basket” approach would permit the ECB to purchase substantial volumes of Italian and Spanish bonds, but only if it was also
buying
even larger amounts of French and German bonds.
The cost of
buying
protection against fluctuations in the euro/dollar exchange rate declined last month to its lowest level in nearly five years.
But many individuals, most of the time, go online without any interest in
buying
something.
Similarly, a higher electoral threshold for winning seats should counter vote
buying
by candidates.
It is composed of highly profitable multinational companies, now investing and hiring workers; advanced economies’ rescued banks paying off their emergency bailout loans; the growing middle and upper classes in emerging economies
buying
more goods and services; a healthier private sector paying more taxes, thereby alleviating pressure on government budgets; and Germany, Europe’s economic power, reaping the fruit of years of economic restructuring.
The technique works by
buying
up the stock of worthless companies through nominees, selling it on a rising market to genuine investors, and then unloading all of it.
As ironic as it may sound, China’s so-called communists apparently trust Hong Kong’s tycoons more than its masses (perhaps because
buying
off tycoons costs a lot less).
So is
buying
or holding equity in firms that may be holding risky assets, regardless of how “safe” a firm’s stock was previously thought to be.
If democratic societies allow people to spend money to buy environmental advantages for children, how can they prohibit parents from
buying
genetic advantages?
Middle-income families also insist on
buying
homes, despite the highest multiple of home price to income among advanced economies and a housing-finance system that imposes high borrowing costs.
Markets long ago stopped
buying
bonds issued by Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, and might soon stop
buying
paper issued by Italy and Spain – or do so only at prohibitive interest rates.
After the Doha Securities Market lost one-fifth of its capitalization between January and October 2008, the Qatar Investment Authority injected $5.3 billion into its own domestic banking sector by
buying
a 20% stake in each of the five banks listed on the domestic exchange.
Worse still, this could even work in Kim’s favor, by
buying
time for his scientists to master technologies – particularly nuclear-warhead miniaturization – that could then be quickly deployed once the deal is publicly broken.
If it stopped
buying
government debt, it could trigger a sovereign crisis and reduce the value of its own portfolio (especially if it started selling the bonds on its balance sheet).
A family need not wait until it has savings equal to the value of a house before
buying
one.
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