Opaque
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Consider what a change in leadership has done for the Roman Catholic Church: Pope Francis is transforming an institution that was thought to be so byzantine, opaque, and intractable that change was all but impossible.
Critics have derided the NTC’s lack of transparency and complained about its
opaque
decision-making.
Unmasking the Man with the Wooden FaceEver since he became General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the Peoples’ Republic of China four years ago, Hu Jintao has remained infuriatingly wooden-faced and
opaque.
After all, with the Chinese economy undergoing wholesale economic transformation, estimating a long-term equilibrium exchange rate that will anchor speculation is virtually impossible, particularly given persistent doubts about data quality, disclosure, and
opaque
policymaking processes.
In particular, their executives operate highly
opaque
firms, with risks effectively masked from outsiders and very little in the way of loss-absorbing shareholder equity.
Yet while their economies blossomed, power remained opaque, screened by personal loyalties, secret deals, corrupt practices.
Indeed, this “financial repression” tax on domestic savers remains a huge
opaque
source of funding for India’s debt-ridden government.
Some ultra-wealthy individuals, such as Charles and David Koch, who control the second-largest privately owned company in the US, really do use their wealth in
opaque
and subversive ways.
China’s New PathCAMBRIDGE – The
opaque
nature of China’s government makes it difficult to see where Chinese economic policy is heading, and thus how the Chinese economy will develop in the years ahead.
So, as disputes with the West come to a head, it is important to recognize the power shifts underway inside Iran’s
opaque
political system.
The sub-prime mortgage loan problem triggered a drop in some financial institutions’ key lines of business, particularly their
opaque
but extremely profitable derivatives businesses.
In particular, regulators have no chance to look over the horizon and act preventively when markets are opaque, and when powerful Wall Street interests (and their Capitol Hill allies) can circle the wagons and claim that there is no problem.
Kaufman’s lasting legacy will be a simple and powerful idea that reasonable people increasingly find to be self-evident: relying on deregulation and self-interest in today’s complex,
opaque
markets will manifestly fail to produce a reasonable allocation of capital or support entrepreneurship and growth.
Lending in the DarkHONG KONG – The proliferation of China’s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow-banking system has been raising fears of possible financial instability.
With such federalization in the EU or, more likely, the smaller eurozone (within which the degree of integration is higher), policy conflicts would place elected national governments in opposition not to an
opaque
system, but to a politically legitimate federal institution.
The statement provoked laughter among those who view China’s decision-making processes as opaque; but it was laughter born of the recognition that Sheng was right.
But that does not mean that the authorities, especially the PBOC, were being secretive or
opaque
in their decision-making.
The denial of data apparently began as an attempt to punish India for condemning China’s massive, cross-border infrastructure agenda as an opaque, neocolonial enterprise.
Through
opaque
mechanisms like subsidized oil prices and overpayment of Cuban doctors, security personnel, and teachers, Venezuela has been bailing out Cuba’s decrepit economy for more than a decade.
Twenty-one years ago, after Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) swept a general election, the results were annulled, the party’s leaders and workers were incarcerated or exiled, and two decades of ruthless – and remarkably
opaque
– military rule followed.
Such information gives you power primarily in a secretive,
opaque
world where access to information is limited.
In short, Google is changing expectations about what people can know – even in the United States, where formal censorship is absent, but government obfuscation,
opaque
corporations, and the like are not.
EU negotiations are complex and
opaque
to most people, and EU institutions are remote.
Unfortunately, discussion of the subject is often
opaque.
The procedures to trigger this intervention, however, are complex and the funding is sufficiently
opaque
that the bill will not eliminate collateral damage from a large bank failure even for US institutions, let alone for international ones, whose unwinding would require coordination by several states, with varying degree of solvency.
Understanding the increased importance of fiscal policy is complicated by confusion over how various euro-zone governments actually make policy decisions – a process that relies on an ever-changing, complex mix of
opaque
institutional factors and domestic political dynamics that vary considerably from one country to another.
America is waking up to what was built while it slept: private companies have hired away its police (JPMorgan Chase gave $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation); the federal Department of Homeland Security has given small municipal police forces military-grade weapons systems; citizens’ rights to freedom of speech and assembly have been stealthily undermined by
opaque
permit requirements.
Decisions taken behind
opaque
walls are more likely to be diverted to their interests.
It is rising rapidly in both the non-financial private sector and in an expanding, interconnected financial sector that remains
opaque.
In November 2014, Avaaz, the United Nations Association, and other NGOs launched a campaign to reform the selection process by which the UN secretary-general is chosen, replacing an
opaque
process dominated by the permanent members of the Security Council with a transparent one, in which all countries have a say.
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