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According to the Financial Times, investment in Xi’s initiative declined last year, raising doubts about whether commercial enterprises are as committed as the government.
McCain launched a television commercial declaring that he had “stood up to President George Bush” on global warming.
Third, if you plug an unemployment rate of 10% to 11% into any model of loan defaults, you get ugly figures not just for residential mortgages (both prime and subprime), but also for commercial real estate, credit cards, student loans, auto loans, etc.
The most highly touted change – the separation between proprietary trading and commercial banking (also known as the “Volker rule,” after former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volker) – has nothing to do with what caused the crisis, and most likely was approved because it was ineffective.
State-owned commercial banks account for half the financial system; all large companies are State monopolies, bureaucratically staffed and poorly managed.
The key to success will be to strengthen the infrastructure of property-rights protection, including dispute-resolution mechanisms, the court system, and commercial and technological standards.
But, for investment banks, shadow banks, and especially commercial banks (with their expensive networks of branches and ATMs), such a policy makes it very difficult to report regular and healthy operating profits on their quarterly income statements and regular and healthy gains in their clients’ portfolios.
Russia has the know-how, skilled engineering, and natural-resource base to become a global competitor in a range of major high-tech industries, including nuclear energy, commercial aviation, commercial space technology (including satellites and GPS), ICT hardware and software, electric vehicles, high-speed rail, petrochemicals, and heavy equipment for the mining and hydrocarbon sectors.
The Piraeus port will be connected to the rest of Europe by Chinese-financed infrastructure in the Balkans and Hungary, consolidating China’s position as the European Union’s main commercial partner.
And many Chinese, for whom the EU is just one of more than 70 strategic partners, complain that the EU’s policy toward China is more commercial than strategic.
In fact, most EU countries – with the notable exception of Germany – are in decline, leading a conservative and defensive Europe to become preoccupied with its own commercial interests.
It responded to revolutionary France’s attacks on American ships destined for England by voiding treaties and commercial agreements, and then, at President John Adams’s request, by authorizing the use of force.
Furthermore, corporations and privacy advocates should be encouraged to use the court system to challenge government requests to install spy software in commercial products.
But the research seems to be aimed at building a scientific case for a resumption of commercial whaling; so, if whaling is unethical, then the research itself is both unnecessary and unethical.
These strategies typically involve far more risk – and sophistication – than the activities of traditional commercial banks.
For example, China concluded a multi-billion dollar deal with Pakistan to develop the port at Gwadar, owing to its strategic location at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, which more than offsets the port's limited commercial potential.
Japan’s banks invested heavily in commercial real estate and were dragged down when the property-market boom of the 1980’s went bust.
The advances in materials science open the possibility of much more energy-efficient residences and commercial buildings.
Both are key to a country’s commercial attractiveness – among the most important dimensions of global competition.
They had not published the results, they explained, because the drug’s development had been abandoned for commercial reasons.
And the reason we know that is that we’ve been up the blind alley with another company; but that experience remains unreported for commercial reasons.”
Berlusconi has often used television, especially his own commercial channels, to that end.
At the same time, expansionary fiscal policy increased effective demand, while the government, backed by its strong public-finance position, was able to tackle nonperforming loans effectively, thereby increasing commercial banks’ willingness to lend and firms’ ability to borrow.
But Obama suggested using the weight of commercial relations between the two countries to tell the Iranian leader that he should follow Brazil’s example (in Brazil, the ban on nuclear energy for military purposes is enshrined in the Constitution).
Confidence is too low for commercial banks to create credit on the scale needed to return to full employment and the pre-crisis growth trend, however many hundreds of billions of whatever cash central banks pour into them.
The new reform orthodoxy is “macro-prudential regulation” of commercial banks by the central bank.
By treating eurozone-government bonds as risk-free, permitting commercial banks to hold them without any capital provision, and failing to apply limits on large-scale credit exposure to sovereign debt, the system encouraged undercapitalized banks to increase their bond purchases.
Instead, the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) provided emergency loans to commercial banks.
Commercial banks must be liable for the risks that they take, and the use of taxpayers’ money in winding down banks must be categorically ruled out.
How can a commercial firm not only deny me the right to know my own genetic profile unless I pay their fee for the diagnostic test, which might be fair enough, but also to prevent any other firm from offering me a similar test unless those firms pay it a license fee?
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