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But let us not make the mistake of fearing finance too much.
Nonetheless, EU finance ministers strenuously opposed it, largely for political reasons.
Ultimately, however, political interests won the day, and the EU finance ministers voted down the proposal.
And, in fact, this time around, the Commission had more power to override resistance from finance ministers.
After the 2008 economic crisis, Europe introduced a “reverse majority rule,” under which any Commission proposal to impose a fine is final, unless EU finance ministers can muster a two-thirds majority against it.
Yes, media organizations must find ways to finance worthwhile reporting, investigation, and analysis.
But energy exports finance about 30% of a government budget that is based on forecasts that oil remains at $61 per barrel.
Alongside such Pharaonic waste, however, the infrastructure and economic development supported by continuing dependence on French finance and public-spirited expatriate French technocrats helped produce what became known as the “Ivoirian miracle.”
And, given his current efforts to divide Europe, one can be sure that Russian President Vladimir Putin would do all that he can to encourage, and finance, such a split.
But easier access to private finance will force a re-evaluation of the IBRD’s methods and the magnitude of its lending.
For example, countries may want the Bank to continue to provide neutral advice and set standards on procurement and quality, but without the high transactions costs that have become the hallmark of Bank finance.
In the budget process, the finance ministry estimates revenues, targets a certain fiscal deficit, and deduces the overall spending level consistent with these numbers.
By contrast, finance and infrastructure ministries of have more of a back-end character.
Just as whites attribute extraordinary sexual powers to black men, the Christian West's instinct is to treat Jews as the masters of extraordinary forces--including the power to kill deities and control world finance.
The depreciation is the price America must pay for past sins--i.e., a huge current account deficit that foreign investors are no longer willing to finance, at least not at the size of 4% or more of US GDP.
Worse still, the demographic threat is being heightened by the way most countries finance their public pension schemes.
The end of American preeminence in education, the collapse of private-sector unions, the emergence of a winner-take-all information-age economy, and the return of Gilded Age-style high finance have produced an extraordinarily unequal pre-tax distribution of income, which will burden the next generation and make a mockery of equality of opportunity.
The G-20’s Empty GesturesCAMBRIDGE – The world’s 20 most important finance ministers and 20 most important central bankers traveled to Washington this month from every part of the globe to accomplish, predictably, exactly nothing.
But the G-20 leaders and finance ministers nonetheless now point with pride to what they “accomplished” in London.
It is appropriate to finance (some) long-lived public-capital investment by government borrowing, since the benefits will accrue for many years, and future taxpayers might equitably bear part of the burden.
It is also more efficient to keep tax rates stable over time, and thus to finance with debt temporary large spending needs such as military buildups during war (or to prevent war), while reversing the debt buildup thereafter.
Such debt finance is both equitable and efficient.
Deficits are problematic if they finance consumption, not productive public investment on infrastructure.
Industries that depend heavily on external finance grew faster in countries with large capital inflows than in countries with more modest inflows.
Such blended finance vehicles, though in their infancy, have already been shown to work well elsewhere in the world.
That clout also poses a systemic challenge to the dominant way that finance is now practiced around the world.
From humble beginnings in the 1990’s, Islamic finance has become a trillion-dollar industry.
The market consensus is that Islamic finance has a bright future, owing to favorable demographics and rising incomes in Muslim communities.
Despite skepticism regarding accommodation between Islamic and global finance, leading banks are buying Islamic bonds and forming subsidiaries specifically to conduct Islamic finance.
How should these developments be viewed from the perspective of Western finance and mainstream economic analysis?
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