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For about eight years after the crisis began, banks simply used their massive stocks of government bonds as
collateral
to obtain liquidity from the BOJ, which they then used to finance loans to weak companies.
Crowdsourced funding and peer-to-peer lending schemes give borrowers the opportunity to circumvent many of the hurdles of traditional banking – including, in some cases,
collateral
requirements and credit ratings.
India understands, though, that the
collateral
damage would be too high, the price in civilian lives unacceptable, and the risks of the conflict spiraling out of control too acute to contemplate such an option.
Because equity-backed debt has been issued to China’s highly leveraged corporate sector, the decline in stock prices has triggered
collateral
calls and forced asset sales, putting further downward pressure on equity values.
As the Fed exhausts the power of traditional monetary instruments, it is heading into uncharted territory, with the potential of unpredictable outcomes and unprecedented
collateral
damage.
That has caused enough concern for the government to act, including by relaxing
collateral
requirements to permit real-estate assets to be used to cover margin calls.
For example, firms may use earnings held abroad as
collateral
to take on more debt and incur higher borrowing costs at home.
The Treasury bills would be assigned a zero-risk rating by the authorities and treated as the highest-quality
collateral
for repo operations at the ECB.
Besides, most Americans were living beyond their means, using their houses, with their bloated values, as
collateral.
The Environmental Effects of the Iraq WarAside from the infrastructure damage and civilian suffering and death implied by the cynical term
"collateral
damage," all wars have environmental effects.
Children are also
collateral
damage, which stems from the relentless erosion of the laws and norms designed to protect civilians in conflict zones.
The Bundesbank has stated that it will no longer accept bank securities as
collateral
from banks that have undergone a government recapitalization.
The new
collateral
requirements, together with tentative talk of autonomous interest rates, represents a remarkable incipient innovation.
My own sense is that it was able but unwilling, owing to its fear of
collateral
damage for the rest of the eurozone.
They believe not only that it is all right to kill soldiers and bomb munitions depots in times of war, but that inflicting
"collateral
damage" on non-combatants it is sometimes unavoidable--and morally permissible.
On the contrary, our aim is if possible to avoid such
collateral
deaths.
Forcing them to set aside assets for
collateral
purposes only drains capital that could be used for long-term-investment.
Leaving the common currency would, of course, threaten
collateral
damage for the exiting country and raise the risk of contagion for other weak eurozone members.
Appropriate use of official resources, including for recapitalization of eurozone banks, would be needed to limit
collateral
damage and contagion.
It loaned on little
collateral
to shaky banks.
Indeed, it often seems that workers, who have seen their wages fall and jobs disappear, are just
collateral
damage – innocent but unavoidable victims in the inexorable march of economic progress.
And can the ECB accept the government debt of Greece as
collateral
beyond certain limits?
The rest of us need to avoid underestimating him – or we will all risk becoming
collateral
damage.
Today, China’s credit boom is underpinned by
collateral
almost as bad as that on which Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and the rest were relying in 2007.
They merely demand more oil as
collateral.
However, Israel should have taken greater care to minimize
collateral
damage.
The task today is to craft what future historians might call a Pax Pacifica – a peace that will ultimately be anchored in the principles of common security, and that recognizes the realities of US and Chinese power, without turning the rest of the region into
collateral
damage should the Sino-American relationship deteriorate.
The ECB’s first non-standard measure – unlimited supply of liquidity at fixed rates against appropriate
collateral
– was introduced in August 2007, when the minimum bid rate of its main refinancing operation was 4.25% – nowhere near the zero bound.
To provide additional incentives to abide by the rules, the ECB could refuse to accept debt issued under national ratings as
collateral.
Finally, they noted that, “policies with an anti-equipment bias include tax rules that subsidize assets that can easily be levered … [and] pieces of equipment are frequently more difficult to use as
collateral
for debt than are investments in structures.”
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