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As Brad Setser of the Council on Foreign Relations explains, the oversight board justifies its optimism by assuming – implausibly, in our view – that the plan’s proposed structural reforms for the 2021-2023 period will deliver extraordinarily
large
gains.
Russia will both derive
large
revenues from oil for many decades and can also play the role of an "energy stabilizer" that will be important for maintaining world peace.
This latest round looked at 51 banks and, contrary to previous tests, was not designed to identify capital shortfalls, but rather to provide “a common analytical framework to consistently compare and assess the resilience of
large
EU banks to adverse economic developments.”
Despite this
large
capital shortfall, 28 of the 34 publicly listed banks in the stress test paid out about €40 billion in dividends for 2015, meaning that they distributed, on average, over 60% of their earnings to shareholders.
The move was met with howls of protest from those who argue that the entry of
large
hypermarket chains like Carrefour and Walmart will devastate the small shops that currently dominate India’s retail sector.
As a result,
large
hypermarkets are suddenly finding that their business model is unraveling.
Meanwhile, its British counterpart, Tesco, is shifting away from the
large
hypermarket format and investing heavily in online systems.
A substantial share of the corporations holding
large
debts are state-owned, and are thus more subject to policy than they are to markets.
A few years ago, countries like Spain and Portugal were running
large
current-account deficits and needed capital inflows totaling roughly 10% of their GDP.
The eurozone thus risks becoming stuck in an unstable status quo, with banks’ cross-border claims
large
enough to transmit national shocks to the entire system, but financial integration not deep enough to ensure that capital flows freely throughout the currency area.
The events were momentous, owing both to
large
and actively engaged audiences (more than a thousand in Yangon), and to the thoughtful and moving presentations by two world-famous Burmese economists who had left the country in the 1960’s and were back for their first visit in more than four decades.
In return for its help, Pakistan received
large
doses of economic and military assistance.
On one hand, Pakistan is seeking
large
investments from China to improve its physical infrastructure and exploit its considerable mineral wealth.
In the United States, AIG, Bear Stearns, and Lehman Brothers – all with
large
derivatives and/or repo investments – failed, freezing up credit markets for a scary few weeks.
Thanks in
large
part to Russian and Iranian support, Assad is firmly in control and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future.
Throughout the EU, as in much of the world, from the Indian subcontinent to
large
parts of Africa, English increasingly functions as the language of international communication.
As a result, English will not so easily marginalize European languages, even after a
large
majority of the population has learned it.
A common explanation for China’s apparent invulnerability is that it has
large
pools of domestic savings and enormous foreign-exchange reserves (over $3 trillion), which can be spent down to head off financial panics.
In the 1990s and 2000s, China developed an exceptionally
large
export industry in part by allowing its currency to become undervalued.
Moreover, the region had relied excessively on foreign savings to support growth, with many countries running
large
long-term current-account deficits.
And banks were saddled with
large
exposures.
But this would be ethically wrong, because developed nations have largely destroyed their own primary forests and ecosystems on the path to industrial development, and continue to import
large
quantities of raw material extracted in developing countries.
By and large, conservative forces in Iran support this approach.
Common taxation and Eurobonds should form part of the new fiscal structure, and the European Stability Mechanism should include a debt redemption fund
large
enough to resolve sovereign-debt crises.
The biopharmed plant would be pooled into a
large
harvest, where its pharmaceuticals would be heavily diluted.
Spanish banks speculated on a continuing increase in real-estate prices, which would bring
large
capital gains to their customers.
If a country votes to make two plus two equal five, this “democratic decision” will eventually be overridden by the rules of arithmetic, no matter how
large
the majority or how loudly “The People have spoken.”
Some of the Brexit hardliners also would oppose any such agreed separation, because it would force Britain to pay a
large
EU exit fee and to follow European rules for an open border with Ireland, in exchange for no commercial privileges at all.
My recent study with Jacopo Carmassi, Time to Set Banking Regulation Right, shows that by permitting excessive leverage and risk-taking by
large
international banks – in some cases allowing banks to accumulate total liabilities up to 40, or even 50, times their equity capital – the Basel banking rules not only enabled, but, ironically, intensified the crisis.
Thus,
large
banks are likely to continue to hold too little capital and to take excessive risks, raising the prospect of renewed bouts of financial instability.
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