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The problem is that these funds create the impression that anything invested with them is just as safe as a deposit at an insured bank.
In fact, the value of assets held by such funds fluctuates, and it is only an accounting convention – permitted by regulators – that allows them to report a stable value.
There were similar fears recently when it became known that US-based money-market funds had lent heavily to European banks.
There is a simple fix to this problem – require money-market funds to show the actual floating value of their assets, so that everyone understands that it is not a fixed number.
Unfortunately, the money-market funds – and their friends in the big banks – are pushing back hard.
This means that a large segment of the business community raises funds, shares equity, and manages operations within small, tight-knit social circles.
What if Americans, tired of the budget cuts in their neighborhoods, refuse to support funds even for “the long war”?
BERLIN – Discussions surrounding the European Union’s 2021-2027 budget are intensifying, owing to many European policymakers’ insistence that regional development funds be disbursed only to member states that are in compliance with EU rules.
Most vexing of all, though, is the fact that Poland and Hungary are, respectively, the largest and fourth-largest beneficiaries of EU funds.
With these examples in mind, the suspension of EU funds hardly seems like the grave injustice that Polish and Hungarian politicians make it out to be.
But Hungarian and Polish opposition leaders warn that suspending EU funds could backfire and bolster public support for anti-EU populists, who will be more than happy to play the victim.
Opposition members who criticize the idea of suspending EU funds for populist governments may make public appeals to morality, but what they really want is efficiency.
They assume the suspension of EU funds would be broadly unpopular, and would strengthen populist rule rather than weakening it.
There are doubts about the lack of a unified deposit-protection scheme, about the availability of funds to resolve a failing institution, and about whether the ECB’s approach will be rigorous enough to identify the lame ducks, force them to recapitalize, and thus rebuild confidence.
But this idea threatens current beneficiaries of EU redistributive policies, namely Spain (which now gets over a third of Union cohesion funds) and Greece (which gets about a fifth), as well as Ireland.
Roberto Shapiro, a former number two in the Clinton-era Department of Commerce and a man close to the Democratic Party, is now co-chairman of the United States Taskforce for Argentina, an alliance of investment funds and institutional creditors who were hit hard by Argentina’s default on its international debts.
Second, the correlations between economic growth and financial deepening on which I relied do indeed vanish when countries’ financial systems move beyond banks, electronic funds transfer, and bond markets to more sophisticated instruments.
After he served his term, the same officials funneled government funds to hire 200 thugs to punish him further by keeping him confined to his house.
While individual investors cannot be expected to invest in lobbying for stronger investor protection, it might be hoped that institutional investors – mutual funds, banks, insurance companies, and so forth – will do so.
Institutional investors receive funds from individuals and invest them in publicly traded companies.
Simply reducing the number of available channels for transferring money out of a country would direct more funds through those that remained.
The electoral process has been unable to guarantee decent democratic governance, rein in predatory practices among the political class, or make public officials follow established rules, keep them responsive to citizen preferences, and deter them from channeling public funds into private hands.
Qatar’s foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, has denied that his country funds the group, but also publicly called on its leaders to distance themselves from al-Qaeda, reinforcing the view that Qatar retains influence over the group.
Indeed, IMF credit will do little to address the key economic issues, except to the extent that it frees up money from other international sources and those funds are used to reactivate the economy.
On one side was the American model, with a variety of regulated banks, lightly regulated investment banks, and largely unregulated hedge funds managing the capital flows.
On the other side was the Chinese solution, with increasingly costly reserve management giving way to activist sovereign wealth funds looking for strategic participation in investments abroad.
Meanwhile, the Chinese solution gave rise to nationalist fears that sovereign wealth funds might be abused to seize strategically vital businesses or whole sectors of an economy.
Those Fickle Sovereign Wealth FundsNEW YORK – Two years ago, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) were the bogeymen of world finance.
And an unprecedented amount of funds has been invested in HIV treatment and prevention.
In Kenya, however, this model is being eroded by the flow of public funds into private media outlets in advertising and through increasing repression.
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