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Banks are also using accounting tricks to hide trillions in further exposures.
Much tougher capital requirements for trading-book exposures are therefore needed and will be brought forward as soon as possible.
Although fewer people in developing countries live to the age at which cancer is most prevalent, inadequate nutrition and environmental exposures to viruses and toxins, combined with a paucity of diagnostic and treatment options, increase cancer’s incidence and lethality.
And banks were saddled with large exposures.
Start with nonconscious exposures (using subliminal stimulation to bypass conscious thoughts and feelings that can be aroused and interfere with the exposure process) to dampen the response of areas like the amygdala.
Once the nonconscious systems are under control, use conscious exposures to treat conscious symptoms.
Investor worries are now concentrated on the health of European banks, many of which have large exposures to Greece and the other southern European countries with severe fiscal problems.
Furthermore, reducing local-government financing vehicles’ exposures is essential.
In these circumstances, postponing the restructuring only perpetuates distrust of European banks with opaque sovereign exposures, and of financial markets in general – in much the same way that uncertainty about exposure to collateralized debt obligations led to a confidence crisis in late 2008.
The main effect so far has been to help bankers generate bonuses (rather than attract borrowers) by hiding exposures.
Taxpayers end up paying for these exposures, as do retirees and others who rely on returns from their savings.
A well-functioning market would produce outcomes that favor banks with the right exposures, the right compensation schemes, the right risk-sharing, and therefore the right corporate governance.
Given the opacity of banks’ exposures, creditors would be unable to discriminate between the solvent and the insolvent (as was the case in September 2008).
Partly for these reasons, using currencies to hedge overall portfolios, or to have exposures that are related to other asset markets, has become increasingly popular.
They need therefore to be evaluated in terms of exposures and reactions to stress, the incidence and prevalence of ill health, and the quality and quantity of goods or services.
Such self-reinforcing financial feedback is much more powerful in transmitting global economic contagion than ordinary commercial or trade exposures, as the world learned in 2008-2009.
The bottom line is that natural chemicals are just as likely as synthetic versions to test positive in animal cancer studies, and “at the low doses of most human exposures, the comparative hazards of synthetic pesticide residues are insignificant.”
In Greece, there was some “private-sector involvement”; but many irresponsible lenders still managed to pass on their exposures to eurozone governments.
To be sure, Scotland has significant economic exposures that it needs to address, and it might need the security of a larger economic unit.
The financial crisis reduced private financiers’ risk appetite, making long-term exposures unappealing.
It is not ethical to drag people into these exposures without incurring the risk of losses.
The clearinghouse also enhances transparency, because it can report its aggregate exposures to the regulator, who is better positioned to regulate a central clearinghouse than to regulate many opaque banks.
First, the banks and other financial institutions in Germany and France have large exposures to Greek government debt, both directly and through the credit that they have extended to Greek and other eurozone banks.
Instead, scientists must harness the “natural experiments” in which exposures have already occurred.
“I’ve done concentration series, where we give sets of embryos exposures at increasing concentrations, and we get a nice linear curve out of it: more alcohol leads to increasing frequency and severity of midline and branchial arch defects.
But that would be true only for incremental radiation exposures at extremely low levels.
In light of what we know now – and even with the data that we are likely to have in the near future – we cannot be certain about the exposures.
But now finance is global, implying large balance-sheet exposures to currency swings.
Avoiding losses calls for flexible decision-making to cut exposures when necessary.
They can have stricter thresholds, quarantining people even for shorter exposures than 15 minutes, and requiring either multiple negative test results or longer quarantines after more dangerous exposures.
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