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These digital tools from the United States became the instruments for a trans-Arabian/Iranian youth revolt for freedom and democracy.
One payoff can come from Africans building distinctive satellite instruments, and thus spawning a globally competitive industry.
And with a presidential election set for next spring, there is strong incentive for self-serving politicians to use the victims of Nice as instruments of campaign strategy.
A natural niche for Japan would be technology developments in the service sector – such as the development of diagnostic instruments in the health-care industry.
Thus, total losses on mortgage-related instruments – include exotic credit derivatives such as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) – will add up to more than $400 billion.
It is worth noting that since its creation in 1949, NATO has been one of the world’s most successful instruments of proliferation prevention.
Under this strain, medical research scientists are susceptible to the dream that their instruments and procedures have somehow freed them from the limitations of their minds and bodies.
Jointly guaranteed Eurobonds are already waiting in the wings to be used as instruments of debt mutualization.
Indeed, the Euro has been one of the main instruments in moving Europe’s center-left parties onto the middle ground, or even to the center-right.
These instruments – including measures aimed at capital-flow management, currency-market interventions (either sterilized or unsterilized), macro-prudential financial regulation, and the accumulation of reserves – provide some room for maneuver.
The domestic instruments at their disposal are of limited use in coping with overwhelming global capital flows driven by monetary-policy decisions made in faraway capitals.
The policy instruments no longer work.
Its inadequacy may lead to the formulation of a much older answer: revulsion against the market economy, accompanied by indiscriminate condemnation of debt and debt instruments.
Meanwhile, the financial sector was thoroughly compromised by the spread of unsound financial instruments and poor lending practices.
That is why the ECB Governing Council has reiterated its unanimous commitment to use additional unconventional instruments within its mandate should it become necessary to address a prolonged period of low inflation, or should the monetary stimulus fall short of our intention to move our balance sheet toward its size in early 2012.
Externally driven changes in financial variables have thus become a source of serious risk, especially in countries, like Argentina, with a history of economic mismanagement, large current account deficits, other financial imbalances, and a habit of pursuing too many objectives with too few instruments.
To the sultanist, the state and its functions become “purely personal instruments of the master.”
In contrast to these titans of dissent, we are empowered with the instruments of social media to spread the word, overcome isolation, and mobilize millions in support of reform and renewal.
But the risk-sharing inherent to Islamic finance made such instruments more resistant to the first round of financial contagion that hit in 2008.
Leading economists, such as Harvard University’s Kenneth Rogoff, have suggested that Islamic finance demonstrates the advantages of more equity and risk-sharing over the conventional bias in favor of debt instruments.
Islamic financial instruments are currently available in at least 70 countries, and today represent about 0.5% of global financial assets.
While recent reports emphasize the size and growth of Islamic financial assets and instruments, it is the quality of services, continued financial innovation, and sound risk-management practices that will ultimately define their success.
The best option for Western governments is thus to pursue gradual change, propelled by a variety of adaptive instruments, which would reach a critical mass over time.
Third, a country’s financial sector must be both open, with no capital-flow restrictions, and sophisticated, with a wide range of instruments and institutions.
On the one hand, human-rights ideology – and it is an ideology, every bit as much as Communism was or neo-liberalism is today – is profoundly legalist, claiming legitimacy from treaties and other international and national instruments.
Those tools include caps, linked to borrowers’ characteristics, on loan-to-value ratios; direct limits on currency and maturity mismatches in financial institutions’ balance sheets; limits on their balance sheets’ interconnectedness; and minimum reserve requirements for specific financial instruments.
Given modern financial systems’ demonstrated ability to create (and destroy) liquidity endogenously – via financial innovation and global mobility – financial and macroeconomic stability may become more difficult to achieve if monetary instruments and macroprudential tools are not used in a consistent manner.
But central banks have stated that they do not have the policy instruments to accelerate the pace of economic recovery.
For years, with the authorities’ encouragement (or at least acquiescence), China’s securities companies spared no effort in pumping up China’s stock exchanges with fashionable financial instruments and practices, the sole aim being to realize capital gains from rising prices (dividends are rarely distributed).
We propose injecting new European public money into the development of risk-sharing instruments and vehicles that support equity investment.
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