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This has fueled rising demand for currency, leading to the expansion of the monetary base, with the money multiplier – that is, the effect on lending by commercial banks – boosting the money supply further.
At the same time, finance takes on quasi-fiscal functions by excluding government fiscal deposits – government deposits in the national treasury, commercial banks’ fiscal savings, and central treasury cash managed through commercial-bank deposits – from the money supply.
These emerging institutional arrangements include contracts and commercial law, bankruptcy and labor codes, and courts to oversee their enforcement.
If one piece of land generates twice as much output in terms of bushels of wheat or commercial rent as another, it should naturally be worth double.
Though Russia had hoped for a rapid increase in shipping along the Northern Sea Route, commercial traffic this year fell by 77%.
He built his commercial empire with debt, and then walked away when business went south, as it did in Atlantic City.
On the one hand, China’s economic-growth trajectory has strengthened regional cooperation through increased trade, better economic incentives, and closer commercial ties.
Nevertheless, financial investors are increasingly worried that inflation will eventually begin to rise, owing to the large expansion of commercial bank reserves engineered by the United States Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB).
They note that the enormous expansion of commercial banks’ reserves has not led to a comparable increase in the supply of money and credit.
But now commercial banks are willing to hold their excess reserves at the Fed, because the Fed now pays interest on those deposits.
When the economic recovery begins to accelerate, commercial banks will want to use the large volume of reserves that the Fed has created to make loans to businesses and consumers.
Sufficiently high rates will induce commercial banks to prefer the Fed’s combination of liquidity, safety, and yield to expanding the quantity of private lending.
Beyond advanced microchips, the US government could order Boeing and United Technologies to withhold aircraft parts and jet engines on which China’s large commercial fleet depends, effectively grounding many Chinese jetliners.
In the 1990s, Alfa Group’s Pyotr Aven authorized Putin’s controversial commercial deals in St. Petersburg when he served as Minister for External Economic Affairs, and Alfa Group has employed both the son-in-law of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s own eldest daughter.
In fact, few media tycoons – Berlusconi owns Italy’s main commercial television channels and several daily newspapers (either directly or through his family) – have ever been as freewheeling in their use of libel litigation to silence journalists and other critics.
As a result, postcommunists prefer to place their offspring in lucrative commercial jobs where they can pile up foreign-currency fortunes.
Governments or commercial banks distributing the money would be credited with a deposit or be given cash, but no claim would be created on the left-hand side of the central bank’s balance sheet.
In most cases, this is not done directly, but rather by commercial banks acting at central banks’ behest.
Two years ago, as British Foreign Secretary, I led the process of protecting the ocean around the Chagos Islands in the British Indian Ocean Territory – the largest single marine area in the world (covering an area twice the size of the UK) where no commercial fishing is allowed.
The commercial exploitation of rich oil and gas reserves in the Timor Gap could have facilitated reconstruction and created jobs for the 30% of the labor force that is unemployed.
Thus, record-high speculative prices have likely caused bunker traders to release inventory, but those releases may have been purchased by speculators who are now active lessees of commercial storage capacity.
The implication is that speculators can drive up prices and increase their inventory holdings even as total commercial inventories remain little changed.
They then take delivery on their premises so that overall refined inventories rise, but that increase is not part of reported commercial inventories.
If these banks also have a commercial bank division, they may have an incentive to maintain credit lines beyond a prudent level, because to cut such lines would put at risk high potential future revenues from mergers and acquisitions and stock and bond issues.
Commercial agriculture uses petroleum, oil, and gas to operate machinery, transport goods, and produce agro-chemicals needed for fertilizers and pesticides.
But investors, managers, and entrepreneurs must take risks if their ideas stand any chance of achieving commercial success.
The asset-backed commercial paper market came to a standstill and the special investment vehicles set up by banks to get mortgages off their balance sheets could no longer get outside financing.
The US has been quick to distinguish between commercial and military espionage.
Chinese officials see little difference between the cyber threat posed by the NSA and that posed by the PLA, especially given that America’s cyber intrusions have also been aimed at foreign companies, trade negotiators, and international leaders – all of whom are directly or indirectly engaged in commercial activity.
For example, it should complete negotiations with the US on an improved “Safe Harbor” framework for data transfers, thereby encouraging companies on both sides of the Atlantic to rely on transfers of commercial data.
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