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I could not get past the scam where they were comping rooms for points accrued through "coin purchases."
The country has also spent millions of dollars on illegal
purchases
of enrichment technology and nuclear-weapon designs from the Pakistani nuclear scientist and black marketeer A.Q. Khan, the “Father of the Pakistani bomb.”
Unprecedented recent
purchases
of oil contracts by non-commercial speculators in the New York and London futures markets suggest that sanctions may already be priced in, with Brent oil trading at $78 a barrel.
But net foreign
purchases
of US stocks for the first ten months of 2003 are still positive (although down about 90% from the same period of 2000, the bubble-peak year).
In the last three months of 2008 alone, net US-asset
purchases
topped $500 billion dollars – three times more than what was purchased in the preceding nine months.
Greece had been following the standard practice of registering expenditures when military
purchases
were actually delivered.
As social-first users start to engage in business, whether at work or for their own finances, purchases, and the like, they will have to keep track of their communications.
Specifically, China needs prudential regulation that limits the use of leverage for asset
purchases.
Here, the country already has an advantage: relatively high levels of equity and low mortgage-to-value ratios typically characterize real-estate
purchases
by China’s household sector.
Bezos’s move is not like the recent
purchases
of Newsweek, where there was an illusion of turning it around, or the Boston Globe, bought by John Henry, who owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team and Liverpool Football Club.
Interest rates will have to be slashed, and the ECB will have to follow up with large-scale asset
purchases
like those recently announced by the Swiss National Bank.
"Generational accounting" assumes that all generations, including those not yet born, will receive the same per-capita level of transfers and government
purchases.
As progress toward that target is made, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced in late May, the Fed will begin to “taper” its program of long-term asset
purchases
known as quantitative-easing (QE).
Unless the regulated financial system is systematically audited, with weak entities stabilized through capital injections, asset purchases, or mergers, or liquidated quickly, the overhang of distressed institutions will persist, constraining lending.
Consider what happened when the Federal Reserve misplayed its hand with premature talk of “tapering” its long-term asset
purchases.
European Central Bank
purchases
of periphery countries’ debt already constitute an implicit subsidy, and discussion of Eurobonds is heating up with Macron’s victory.
The ECB has been following a similar strategy of large-scale asset
purchases
and extremely low (indeed negative) short-term interest rates.
A further motive of the ECB’s bond
purchases
has been to increase the cash that eurozone banks have available to lend to businesses and households.
More controversially, the ECB needs to increase its
purchases
of Italian bonds.
Meanwhile, Italy, now under the watchful eye of the International Monetary Fund, needs to move ahead with those pro-growth reforms in order to reassure the ECB’s shareholders that the central bank’s bond
purchases
are not money losers.
In order to mitigate the risk associated with these debt-funded loan purchases, the PBOC guaranteed the AMC bonds.
Today, neither Draghi’s recent statements nor the prospect of an American-style program of large-scale asset
purchases
(also known as quantitative easing) has caused the euro to weaken or the inflation rate to move back toward the target level of 2%.
The dollar’s value then remained relatively stable during more than three years of quantitative easing – and actually rose during 2013, when the Fed’s asset
purchases
reached a high of more than $1 trillion.
Nonetheless, the behavior of the dollar’s exchange rate during the period of quantitative easing offers no support for the proposed use of large-scale asset
purchases
by the ECB as a way to bring about euro depreciation.
The consumer price index rose by 1.6% in 2010, when quantitative easing began, then increased somewhat faster in 2011 and 2012, before dropping back to a gain of just 1.5% in 2013, the peak year for asset
purchases.
In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged
purchases
of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.
To this end, the European Commission has proposed the European Defense Fund, which would foster common defense research and allow participating member states to reduce costs through collective
purchases
of military assets.
Similar comments were made about the US Federal Reserve in 2008, after it began large-scale
purchases
of non-conventional assets, including agency debt and mortgage-backed securities, in order to support the collapsing US housing market.
Far from tapering its monthly
purchases
of long-term assets, one can easily imagine a scenario in which the Fed’s already substantial balance sheet would have to expand even more quickly to counter the negative economic effects of an unplanned – and rapid – rise in borrowing costs.
When banks make loans, they create deposits for borrowers, who draw on these funds to make
purchases.
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