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The right place to start to address it is by creating a better balance between education and commercial disinformation.
As Haldane notes, even the celebrated “Volcker rule,” intended to build a better wall between more mundane commercial banking and riskier proprietary bank trading, has been hugely watered down as it grinds through the legislative process.
In trying to move farmers from subsistence to commercial agriculture, Munk argues, there are just too many missing pieces.
But such figures, though large, pale in comparison with the $305 trillion worth of financial assets held by commercial banks, institutional investors, and other private financial institutions and individuals.
Subterfuge is also apparent in China’s plans at Gwadar, where a Chinese-built but still-underused commercial port opened in 2007.
Yet, all along, China continued to insist that Gwadar’s only role was commercial.
When I was serving as Commercial Secretary to the UK Treasury in 2015-2016, business leaders often griped about this shortcoming as if they expected the government to be the sole provider of worker training.
This will require putting banks and state-owned enterprises on a fully commercial footing, and moving to a more flexible exchange rate.
And while the app’s privacy policy has since been changed, that US firm retains the previously acquired data, which it could use for commercial purposes today and for who knows what else tomorrow.
The commercial stakes are growing as it becomes possible to test for predisposition to common diseases such as breast cancer and heart disease where the potential market is immense.
Following years of mismanagement and reckless lending, the bank was the first big victim of the commercial property market’s decline in 1990.
For, instead of infrastructure plans, commercial or environmental treaties, or even multilateral action against such common problems as violence and poverty, the issue that dominated both press accounts and the speeches at the gathering was the new US-Colombian military agreement, announced less than a month before the summit.
There is a better solution, pioneered after commercial banks in the United States loaned too much to Latin America in the 1970’s.
The first factor driving up funding costs is the outsize profitability of China’s commercial banks – more than 23%, on average, for the top five last year – which account for some 35% of total profits earned by the 500 largest Chinese companies.
This growing aversion to risk makes it particularly difficult for SMEs to borrow from commercial banks, forcing them to turn to the under-regulated shadow banking sector.
Although open-ocean aquaculture should still require less diesel fuel than commercial fishing – and could run on renewable energy sources like solar, wind, or waves – offshore aquaculture is more energy-intensive than conventional fish farms.
A majority of patents are used not to produce commercial value, but to create defensive legal thickets that can keep potential competitors at bay.
But even without noisome politics, the sheer amount of money required to stage the Olympic Games – the building contracts for stadiums, transport infrastructure, and hotels, together with all the other commercial razzmatazz – was bound to produce a culture of bribery and kickbacks.
That will require regular interventions, in the form of journeys by all sorts of vessels, both military and commercial – ideally under many national flags – through the waters China is attempting to claim.
Second, common legal rules on group consolidation do not exist; indeed, many EU countries’ commercial law contains no legal definition of a group.
Even as the Internet and communications technology have made speaking up publicly technically easier than ever, ubiquitous state and commercial surveillance has ensured that expression, association, and protest remain constrained.
Chu is a former Berkeley and Stanford professor of physics and head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, while Locke is a former Washington State governor and a long-time supporter of US-China commercial exchanges.
Even the most mission-driven companies can be tempted to trade educational quality for outsize commercial returns.
Blue-fin tuna is heading for commercial, if not outright, extinction, as are a host of other economically and ecologically important marine species.
This should grab the attention of both regional fisheries management organizations, which oversee commercial fishing in the high seas, and those monitoring compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), which covers endangered migratory species.
The adverse economic impact implied by such efforts is not nearly as large as one might expect; in many cases, it could be more than offset by other kinds of commercial activities that take advantage of live sharks.
In a few years, however, the energy terrain is likely to be unrecognizable, as dramatic technological, economic, and geopolitical changes reshape commercial relationships worldwide.
Financing from the IMF, the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and bilateral lenders, along with debt relief from official and commercial bank creditors, helped relieve the pressure.
Members of high-risk groups, such as immigrants, the homeless, commercial sex workers, and the poor, are forced to move or search for work.
The dreadful result was the indiscriminate denial of civil rights and the principles of democracy, and the rise of what today’s leaders call “socialism with Chinese characteristics” – a bitter euphemism for unchecked Party and government power entwined with commercial interests.
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