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Their domain encompasses banks, other depository institutions, insurance companies, securities firms, pension funds, finance companies - indeed, just about any entity that conducts financial transactions.
In the US there are three national agencies that regulate commercial banks, one that regulates savings institutions, one that regulates credit unions, one that regulates securities markets, one that regulates commodity and financial options/futures markets, and two that regulate pension funds.
They should then lend those funds to governments and public-private investment entities.
(American companies are currently sitting on nearly $2 trillion in offshore funds that should finally be taxed.)
Limited public funds should be used strategically to unlock greater private investment flows, share risks, and expand access to the building blocks of prosperity, including modern energy services.
As these become less of a priority, funds will be freed for providing appropriate learning materials and on-site tutors.
The next steps in implementation should include consideration of the proposals on international transport by the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Air Transport Association and the International maritime Organization, with the multilateral development banks working on proposals for new green funds and enhanced collaboration with the private sector.
Moreover, political gridlock will ensure that little is done about the other festering problems confronting the American economy: mortgage foreclosures are likely to continue unabated (legal complications aside); small and medium-sized enterprises are likely to continue to be starved of funds; and the small and medium-sized banks that traditionally provide them with credit are likely to continue to struggle to survive.
The EU drew the right conclusions when it stressed that national bank rescue packages must not be designed in ways that starve subsidiaries, and also by doubling – to €50 billion – the crisis funds available to EU countries outside the euro zone.
Securitization – putting large numbers of mortgages together to be sold to pension funds and investors around the world – worked only because there were rating agencies that were trusted to ensure that mortgage loans were given to people who would repay them.
But they are established through the donation of state funds or property: when six such corporations were created in 2007, some $80 billion of assets and $36 billion of fresh state funds were transferred to them.
It encouraged financiers desperate to earn a return on abundant funds to put them to more speculative use.
In the US, an effective social security system and sound public finance with surpluses at full employment increasingly funds for future retirees.
Government research funds in affluent countries are also disproportionately targeted toward the diseases that kill these countries’ citizens, rather than toward diseases like malaria and diarrhea that are responsible for much greater loss of life.
In addition to providing the funds for apprentices’ salaries, governments must monitor progress to ensure that apprentices are gaining valuable knowledge and experience.
Moreover, it is unlikely that the US Congress would ever have appropriated these funds in the first place, regardless of Trump’s decision.
European solutions to the problem could involve transfers of funds when local education benefits a continent-wide labor market, or assistance in addressing the problems that affect areas at risk of losing their working-age populations.
Instead of allowing politicians to spend public money on feel-good climate projects based on distant – and unreliable – predictions, citizens should encourage their leaders to invest those funds in clean-energy research and development, with the goal of making renewables inexpensive enough to overcome fossil fuels in the market.
Wholesale debt funds only 10% of these assets, but amounts to €841 billion, or 41% of French GDP.
The major investment banks are fully aware that every day that they delay appropriate market regulation, they earn millions of dollars for their managers’ bonus funds.
The IMF, sitting on a pile of funds, sought and found a new function: serving as an economic consulting agency to countries in trouble -- an unusual agency that brought funds with it instead of charging fees.
While prudential regulation and supervision can never be perfect, extending such oversight to hedge funds and other unregulated institutions can still moderate the downsides.
Germany agreed to relinquish the Deutsche Mark on the condition that the new currency area would not lead to direct or indirect socialization of its members’ debt, thus precluding any financial assistance from EU funds for states facing bankruptcy.
Finally, the ESM cannot be considered on its own, but must be seen in the context of the total exposure amount, which includes the €1.4 trillion in bailout funds that have already been granted.
To this end, he has called for EU treaty changes to establish a European “budget commissioner” with authority to spend shared European funds and reject member countries’ fiscal strategies when they do not comply with established rules.
For starters, the common funds are meager, with no prospect of being increased – not least because of Germany’s unrelenting opposition.
Of course, when a country has run out of options, it will play along to gain access to official bailout funds.
While governments might offer attractive liquidity facilities, banks will be unable to on-lend the funds.
Despite stress tests, bailout funds, and continual meetings, a permanent workable fix has so far eluded European policymakers.
The crisis affects non-Europeans too; for example, concern over the exposure of American banks and money-market funds to troubled European banks is harming US financial markets.
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