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With banks now bigger than ever – America’s four largest each held more than $1 trillion in assets in 2011 – breaking them down to the point that no segment is systemically important would be a long and complex process, to say the least.
Clinton’s proposed risk fee resembles one advanced by President Barack Obama’s administration in 2010 in order to discourage risky activity by the largest banks, while helping to recoup some revenue from bailouts.
There is another reason the proposal will not be effective: many of the largest shareowners are institutions that don’t pay tax anyway, such as pension funds and foundations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking last month to the membership of AIPAC, the largest pro-Israel lobby in the US, emphasized the urgency of the situation.
Its citizens, who live on top of the world’s largest oil reserves, are literally starving and dying for lack of food and medicine.
In fact, China could soon become the world’s largest net creditor, and a portion of its net foreign assets will take the form of patient capital that is suitable for improving infrastructure, developing manufacturing sectors, and creating jobs around the world.
As the world’s largest economy, American leadership will remain crucial.
And the EU is the world’s largest single market for seafood products, importing about 60% of the fish it consumes.
Is there any way to coax the IMF’s largest members, especially the United States and China, to help diffuse the risks posed by the world’s massive trade imbalances?
In June 2009, the largest US pension fund (Calpers) owned less than 0.3% of large companies such as Coca Cola and Microsoft.
Indeed, the US is the world’s largest producer of bioethanol, which – along with the production of shale gas – has helped reduce foreign oil imports by at least 25%, while lowering carbon dioxide emissions and creating local jobs.
How can there be any hope of a free and open Indo-Pacific, when the critical corridor linking the Indian and Pacific oceans is increasingly dominated by the world’s largest autocracy?
Indeed, as Vuk Draskovic, the leader of the largest opposition group, tried to hijack last week's massive protest of 100,000 in Belgrade (a rally he had previously shunned), security men from Draskovic's Serbian Renewal Movement and Zoran Djindjic's Democratic Party openly scuffled.
These deepening divisions threaten to squeeze the life out of democracy in South America’s largest country.
In the US, the five states with the largest gains in oil production this decade recorded employment growth of 2.75% in 2017, double the national average.
More interconnected countries capture the largest share of this added value.
At the same time, as Europe’s largest consumer of Russian gas, Germany has built its hopes for energy security on developing a rich web of economic ties with Russia.
Isolation of Russia would be counterproductive, merely aggravating its highly developed sense of victimization and possibly turning it into a “rogue” state – truly a nightmare scenario, given that Russia has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.
A 2003 estimate by the Nanobusiness Alliance identified nanomaterials as the largest single category of nanotech start-ups.
In the early 1990’s, nobody predicted that China’s economy would become the world’s second largest within 20 years.
Or he may join with China to create a kind of G2 of the world’s largest powers.
US officials dispute this, arguing that American companies are among the region’s largest foreign direct investors, while 11 of the US’s 20 free-trade agreements (FTAs) are with Latin American countries.
As majority shareholders in the multilateral development-bank system, the largest contributors of ODA have a key role to play in aligning public- and private-sector incentives.
It has surpassed the United States as the world’s largest source of greenhouse gases, and it became developing nations’ diplomatic champion at the recent United Nations climate negotiations in Bali.
The focus on China intensified late last year, when new data from the International Energy Agency and other research organizations revealed that China had overtaken the US as the largest source of greenhouse gases – and, more ominously, that its emissions are growing at a rate that exceeds all wealthy nations’ capacity to decrease theirs.
The largest and best-equipped farms are highly competitive, in the sense that they can produce for markets at a lower cost.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Colombian army’s killing of Alfonso Cano, head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), will not eliminate that country’s largest guerrilla group anytime soon.
Is this a historical aberration, or are Islam’s two largest sects condemned to perpetual mutual hostility?
Two thirds of the people in Venezuela, the Latin American country with the largest oil deposits, live in poverty.
More telling, the countries that cut expenditure the most experienced the largest bond-yield spikes and the most significant debt growth.
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