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And all of this will need to be accompanied by a comprehensive investment plan, using both public and private funds, along the lines of the €315 billion ($356 billion) proposal for the European Union that Juncker unveiled in November.
Attracting even a fraction of the assets held by institutional investors, sovereign-wealth funds, and public pension funds could boost development finance substantially.
If it does, it might not have sufficient funds for the next crisis, which will inevitably come, possibly from an unexpected quarter such as Japan or China.
The only reason the country has not long since defaulted on its debts is that the European Central Bank continues to provide funds to the Greek central bank through its emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) scheme.
The first – and more desirable – is for the ECB to assess realistically Greece’s lack of solvency and so stop providing ELA funds to its banking system.
As a counterpart, structural coordination must, at a minimum, focus European Union funds on countries with long-term current-account deficits, the aim being to improve their competitiveness through investments in their human capital.
Pension funds, for example, are embracing water stocks because they involve secure, multi-year contracts.
The funds have mainly invested in government bonds, but they will allocate more of their assets toward private equities and bonds as the Argentine economy recovers from its depression.
High rates of return on these retirement funds should also greatly raise Argentina's savings rate once its economy fully recovers.
Assurances of US investment in Bengal’s development flowed; whether funds will actually follow remains to be seen.
If the new proposal is adopted, the IMF would conditionally refuse funds to countries carrying debt burdens that Fund staff determine are most likely unsustainable; creditors would first have to agree to a “reprofiling” of debt.
But there is one crucial difference: Italy is part of a select club that does not need outside rescue funds.
Economic reform must be financed somehow, and if the funds are to come, at least in part, from outside the EU, the euro must be a strong currency.
But the state itself is in dire financial straits; one of the cities’ problems is the sharp curtailment of state funds to localities.
The Fed traditionally responds to a downturn by sharply reducing the short-term federal funds rate.
At its meeting in December, the Federal Open Market Committee’s median forecast for the federal funds rate at the end of 2019 was still a very low 2.9%.
Some have sovereign wealth funds.
Many have public pension funds of substantial magnitude, consisting of diversified portfolios of assets.
In response, the EU could have the European Court of Human Rights investigate Hungary’s violations of EU rules, or an EU-level prosecutor could bring civil or criminal actions against Hungary’s misuse of EU funds.
He demands that EU funds be provided with no strings attached, while signaling that he would gladly sell his loyalty to Russia.
And so it would have been had he not used state funds to provide his other family with lodgings, chauffeurs, and jets for their Egyptian weekends.
There was no sign of the more radical ideas that emerged later in the debate, such as the so-called Volcker rule separating banks and hedge funds (which is reflected in the US legislation), or a crisis-resolution mechanism whereby bank debt is converted semi-automatically into equity (which several countries are considering).
There was also a commodity bubble and a private equity and hedge funds bubble.
The credit crunch will get worse; deleveraging will continue, as hedge funds and other leveraged players are forced to sell assets into illiquid and distressed markets, thus causing more price falls and driving more insolvent financial institutions out of business.
Funds invested, and reinvested, in the S&P composite from 1998-2008 have yielded a real return of zero: the dividends earned on the portfolio have been just enough to offset inflation.
You can argue that the corporate executives have expertise and knowledge that allows them to commit the funds they control to higher-return projects than are available in the stock market.
Consider organizations that regulate medical licenses or administer medical emergency relief funds.
A gold-standard rule would have produced higher rates for the southern European borrowers, which would have attracted funds to where capital might be productively used, and at the same time acted as a deterrent against purely speculative capital flows.
The IMF mobilized massive amounts of money ($118 billion in all) for Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand, so that they would pay back the foreign creditors trying to withdraw their funds.
Some, perhaps many, small businesses are, however, in a very different position; strapped for funds, they can’t grow, and many are being forced to contract.
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