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Gold rose above $1,000 again in February-March 2009, when it looked like most of the financial system in the United States and Europe might be near insolvency, and that many governments could not guarantee
deposits
and backstop the financial system, because banks that were too big to fail were also too big to be saved.
Global
deposits
of methane clathrate contain more than twice the amount of energy of all known fossil fuels, and it can burn cleanly.
Post-mortem examinations of their brains revealed
deposits
of prions – the infectious agents that cause scrapie, kuru, and mad cow disease.
A low denomination security (of, say, $1,000), carrying a 3-4% interest rate, might be attractive to migrant workers who currently earn minimal interest on
deposits
held in host-country banks.
The bonds would also be more stable than non-resident foreign-currency
deposits
in developing countries, and registering the bonds with the appropriate authorities in major host countries would make them reasonably safe.
A string of unsuccessful policies had accelerated inflation in public and private contracts, affecting wages, rents, and bank
deposits.
Some highly controversial measures – such as a move in 1990 to commandeer
deposits
– briefly halted inflation but contributed to a deep recession.
Historically, the Supreme Court has sided with consumers in cases related to inflation adjustments on savings
deposits.
An offer by Hungary’s government to extend a general guarantee of
deposits
or to ensure liquidity in interbank markets has limited credibility.
Governments that can finance themselves simply by retaining physical control over oil or mineral
deposits
often fail in the long run to develop institutions that are conducive to economic development.
The final pitfall is excessively rapid depletion of oil or mineral deposits, in violation of optimal rates of saving, let alone environmental preservation.
After all,
deposits
from the small-town banks were running off to big banks in money centers like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Although these reserve estimates are based today's known deposits, we should not pin our hopes on vast undiscovered supplies.
There are indications of significant gas hydrate
deposits
near India's eastern coast, between Madras and Calcutta.
German banks might be able to issue securities at very low rates, but these rates are still higher than what they earn on their ECB
deposits.
Moreover, they must maintain an extensive – and thus expensive – domestic retail network to collect the savings
deposits
from which they are not profiting.
US Interest Rates Will Continue to RiseCAMBRIDGE – Six months ago, I wrote that long-term interest rates in the United States would rise, causing bond prices to fall by so much that an investor who owned ten-year Treasury bonds would lose more from the decline in the value of the bond than he would gain from the difference between the bonds’ interest rate and the interest rates on short-term money funds or bank
deposits.
Applying this process to large banks and to financial institutions that are not formally banks – and that do not have insured retail
deposits
– sounds fine on paper.
In the US, the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) – created to ensure that banks that gather
deposits
in low- or middle-income communities reinvest some of their earnings in those communities – supports more than $60 billion in community finance, compared to the $48 billion of VC funding that was deployed last year.
Money market funds are an alternative to banks for storing one’s money, offering somewhat higher interest rates, but without the insurance that protects bank
deposits
in many countries.
As with bank deposits, investors can take their money out at any time.
And, like bank deposits, the funds are potentially subject to a run if a large number of people try to withdraw their money at the same time.
After all, bank depositors regularly lose more when unexpected inflation erodes their savings’ real purchasing power (only the nominal value of those
deposits
is insured).
First, the banking system, which dominates lending, typically funds long-term investments with short-term bank deposits, creating a maturity mismatch.
True, some central banks (Sweden in 2009 and Denmark in 2012) have charged banks for taking deposits, thereby posting negative interest rates.
At the most fundamental level, banks are entrusted with
deposits
from individuals, businesses, and governments.
Despite new joint projects in energy efficiency and environmental protection, areas in which China ranks Japan as the best performer among industrialized countries, the two sides remain in bitterly divided over these territorial waters, which contain huge potential oil, gas, and other mineral
deposits.
A record-low level of
deposits
and the recession-related rise of non-performing loans have weakened Greek banks’ capital position further.
To that we must add coordinated financial regulation and bailout policies, as
deposits
flow rapidly across borders in response to national guarantees and insurance in the euro zone.
This is because official capital controls oblige exporters to deposit hard currencies with the People’s Bank of China in exchange for freshly printed yuan (usually as bank deposits) or government debt.
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