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Some distressed banks clearly possess large
quantities
of mortgage-backed securities, and are holding onto them in the hope that their prices will rise in the future, saving them from failure.
The Fed introduced quantitative easing – buying large
quantities
of long-term bonds and promising to keep short-term interest rates low for a prolonged period – after it concluded that the US economy was not responding adequately to traditional monetary policy and to the fiscal stimulus package enacted in 2009.
Reserves are defined as the
quantities
of petroleum that are expected to be commercially recoverable from known fields.
After all, producing maximum
quantities
at minimum prices is the holy grail of any economy.
The proteins that are produced, their quantities, and their characteristics collectively form the proteome, and their activities, in combination or in response to signals from within the body or external to it, form our metabolism.
But Iran is unlikely to be able to take advantage of the rial’s low value to restructure its economy, or to increase exports in the short run, given that oil remains the country’s most important export, and current sanctions severely limit the
quantities
in which it can be sold.
Skunk in the UK has high levels of THC while being virtually devoid of CBD; hash, on the other hand, has roughly equal
quantities
of the two components.
Every year, more than 280 million tons of plastic is produced, with vast
quantities
making their way into groundwater, rivers, and oceans – and onward up the food chain.
Thawing Siberian permafrost will release vast
quantities
of methane.
If a fall in sales is due to a shortage of demand while there is ample supply, then, as
quantities
fall relative to trend, prices will fall as well.
If, on the other hand, the fall in sales is due to a shortage of supply while there is ample demand, then prices will rise as
quantities
fall.
Blame will be placed on the weather, the bridges, the media, the bitterness of spurned leaders, and the unknown
quantities
represented by the new faces of the president’s army of candidates.
Even countries that practice inflation targeting and have otherwise vowed to let their exchange rates float – Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Chile, for example – have done it, and in large
quantities.
Some countries and regions that were previously self-sufficient in food now import large
quantities
of it.
Floating exchange rates were supposed to prevent countries from manipulating their currencies, but, by accumulating large
quantities
of US treasury bills, East Asian countries, especially China, kept their exchange rates artificially low.
In Siberia, vast
quantities
of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, are locked up in what used to be called “permafrost” – regions in which it was assumed that the ground was permanently frozen.
And more austerity is a vital, if less well remarked on, condition of the European Central Bank’s declared willingness to buy unlimited
quantities
of troubled countries’ short-term government debt.
Though people have until the end of the year to deposit the notes in bank accounts, doing so in large
quantities
could expose them to high taxes and fines.
Those who held large
quantities
of black money seem to have found creative ways to launder it, rather than destroying it to avoid attracting the taxman’s attention, as the government expected.
The waste from the animals, together with the fertilizers and pesticides used to produce feed, generate large
quantities
of nitrogen oxides.
Foreign investors now hold more than $5.7 trillion of these low-yielding securities, not to mention large
quantities
of other dollar assets.
Not only will these power plants emit large
quantities
of greenhouse gases; they will also devastate the Sundarbans, where the Ganges and other rivers meet the Bay of Bengal in a spectacular delta of mangrove islands that is home to endangered Bengal tigers and river dolphins.
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.
Industrial
quantities
of research, analysis, and debate have been devoted to the causes of the 2008 crisis and its consequences; so it seems odd that senior central bankers are still so sharply divided on the central issue of financial stability.
Banks and other lenders are extending credit to lower-quality borrowers, to borrowers with large
quantities
of existing debt, and as loans with fewer conditions on borrowers (so-called “covenant-lite loans”).
As a result, several UN agencies forecast that, by 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in regions stricken with absolute water scarcity, implying a lack of access to adequate
quantities
for human and environmental uses.
A prolonged and sustained central bank policy of purchasing ever-increasing
quantities
of long-term assets is essential to encourage a wary financial sector to use some of its risk-bearing capacity for its proper purpose: reducing the risk burden on entrepreneurship and enterprise.
First, the nuclear fuel is not seawater, but a mixture of the two heavy isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, a radioactive element that has been produced in small
quantities
for hydrogen bombs.
But the islanders carefully cleaned the seeds to remove the toxin before eating them, and they did not consume large enough
quantities
to cause damage.
All reconstruction plans depend in the long run on the ability of Iraq to export oil in large
quantities.
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