Purchase
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Taxpayers’ money was spent to
purchase
corporate stocks in a failed attempt to support collapsing stock prices.
Moreover, in the event of a crisis, central banks should
purchase
non-performing assets from banks at face value, completely restoring banks’ balance sheets, in exchange for an obligation to submit to credit monitoring.
He will not calculate the possible consequences of his or her
purchase
on the labor market, on the social system, and he shouldn't because markets would not function as an instrument to manage the complexity of a highly sophisticated economy if criteria such as these would enter market decisionmaking.
Seventy-three years ago, John Maynard Keynes thought about the reform and regulation of financial markets from the perspective of the first three purposes and found himself “moved toward... mak[ing] the
purchase
of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage...”But he immediately drew back: the fact “that each individual investor flatters himself that his commitment is ‘liquid’ (though this cannot be true for all investors collectively) calms his nerves and makes him much more willing to run a risk...”
Japan has resumed foreign-exchange intervention, and the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are preparing another large-scale
purchase
of government bonds – a measure called “quantitative easing,” which lowers long-term interest rates and indirectly weakens the currency.
While Indians have traditionally been wary of buying online, owing to their distrust of digital security, in recent years the urban middle class has become increasingly accustomed to using the Internet to
purchase
airline tickets, reserve hotel rooms, and order books.
There are four basic approaches to cleaning up a banking system that is facing a systemic crisis: recapitalization of the banks, together with a
purchase
of their toxic assets by a government “bad bank”; recapitalization, together with government guarantees – after a first loss by the banks – of the toxic assets; private
purchase
of toxic assets with a government guarantee (the current US government plan); and outright nationalization (or call it “government receivership” if you don’t like the dirty N-word) of insolvent banks and their resale to the private sector after being cleaned.
The ECB’s announcement of a new program to
purchase
sovereign bonds has lowered market interest rates.
Transactions worth more than $88 billion took place last year – compared to just $3.3 billion in 2014 – including SoftBank’s
purchase
of the British semiconductor-design firm ARM and Qualcomm’s $47 billion
purchase
of NXP Semiconductors.
A central bank’s job is to uphold in practice Say’s Law – the principle that output is balanced by demand, with neither too little demand to
purchase
what is produced (which would cause unemployment) nor too much (which would cause inflation) – because Say’s Law certainly does not hold in theory.
Following the example of Mongolia, where pastoralists can
purchase
private insurance to protect against the loss of herds from drought, microcredit programs could be established to insure pastoralists against similar risks and thus provide funds for restocking after a disaster.
In Niger, pastoralists use mobile phones to keep abreast of commodity prices in regional markets, which enables them to sell their camels where prices are highest and
purchase
grains where prices are lowest.
The
purchase
price will probably look ridiculously small.
Can one actually use it to
purchase
the legendary White Widow strain of marijuana, or to hire a hit man?
Given the absence of any regulation regarding fairness in news coverage of campaigns, the blatant corruption of many news organizations, and the absence of a current affairs program on national, prime-time television, banning the
purchase
of airtime merely erects an insurmountable barrier to potential new political entrants.
And I fully understand the desire to
purchase
the subsequent issue of Charlie Hebdo, published – with bravery and determination – a week after the attack.
The
purchase
of US Treasuries by foreign central banks really took off in 2003, years before the first round of quantitative easing, or “QE1,” was launched in late 2008.
Germany needs both China’s markets and the funds that its government can deploy to
purchase
German and European bonds.
In July, Qatar agreed to
purchase
$11 billion worth of US arms.
In other words, they have to
purchase
virtual land from the city.
While drivers may
purchase
a more fuel-efficient car in the long run, they are more likely, in the shorter run, to reduce other kinds of consumption to offset the rise in cost.
Meanwhile, in America, active campaigning by the Humane Society of the US has led to about 50 major pork buyers announcing that they will phase out their
purchase
of pork from suppliers who use sow stalls.
By creating a system that is heavily dependent on highly rated government bonds, which are deposited at the European Central Bank in exchange for liquidity, Europe has given banks – particularly larger institutions – no choice but to
purchase
such bonds.
They know what to buy.”Facebook posts showed them what kinds of tents to purchase, which routes to take, and what tactics to implement, such as slashing the rubber boats they arrived in to avoid being pushed back out to sea by Greek officials.
Under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, industrialized countries (so-called “Annex I countries”) have the right to
purchase
certificates of carbon sequestration from reforestation projects undertaken in developing countries and use them to offset up to 1% of their 1990 greenhouse-gas emissions from industry, transport and housing.
Even European governments, which are not tied by the EU ETS ban,
purchase
very few.
One example is “shared responsibility” mortgages, in which payments are reduced under certain circumstances, such as when home prices dip below the borrower’s
purchase
price.
A man I interviewed recently for a study of Swedes who had been on the waiting list, but who decided to
purchase
kidneys abroad, described to me his trip to Pakistan for the transplant: “I’m not the kind of man who uses other people, but I had to.
Nationalist leaders and their supporters today are living in a “post-empirical” reality, where the truth and experience have no
purchase.
And corruption American-style can result in trillion-dollar gifts to pharmaceutical companies, the
purchase
of elections with massive campaign contributions, and tax cuts for millionaires as medical care for the poor is cut.
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