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Another risk is that China’s leaders continue to delay efforts to expand the services sector – including finance, insurance, wholesale and retail trade, and logistics – in the hope that the economy can continue to depend on manufacturing.
The Netherlands, which is popularly believed to have legalized cannabis use along these lines, has in fact tolerated only small-scale retail sales of marijuana in a limited number of coffee shops in its larger cities.
First, openly tolerating a market in a previously illegal commodity will expand the number of users, especially if the retail price is lower than the black-market price (as is proposed in the Ammiano Bill currently before the California legislature).
Last year, Singapore retail magnate Tang Wee Sung was sentenced to one day in jail for agreeing to buy a kidney illegally.
Countries such as India and China stabilize retail energy markets through government-financed subsidies to keep price down for consumers.
At the other end of the retail chain, the CEO’s of the clothing companies enjoy multimillion-dollar pay deals.
Production and distribution processes are being transformed, not just through robotic auto painting or assembly, but through such things as scanner_based retail inventory control and robot_guided hip surgery.
Some retail banks went belly-up, like Northern Rock, while others stayed afloat (Santander’s UK subsidiary, for example).
Narrow banking, which entails retail deposits being kept in distinct entities, backed only by safe and liquid assets like government bonds, does not fare well under the All Souls microscope.
Glass-Steagall detains the Commission for rather longer, but also comes up short: “the costs of full separation could be higher than is necessary to address the problems,” owing in part to potential “economies of scope between retail and wholesale/investment banking services.”
The impact would be to require a bank carrying out retail activities in the UK to put them in a separately capitalized subsidiary.
A retail ring-fence makes most sense if coupled with new a new resolution regime, which would allow a retail subsidiary to be wound up without contagion across the group.
Indeed, recent data show falling real personal incomes, declining employment gains, and lower retail sales.
Limited progress has already been made on this front: investment as a percentage of GDP has fallen slightly to 46% in 2014, while growth in retail sales and consumption have outpaced GDP growth.
For large banks, Liikanen would separate trading from deposit banking, while the ICB’s proposals, which are now incorporated in draft legislation in Britain, would ring-fence retail banking.
First, it does not do enough to shield retail banking from investment-banking risks, of which only a small share relate to proprietary trading.
So the ICB concluded that its reform package for the UK would achieve the main aims of full separation at a lower cost, and without creating the risk to financial stability that could come from having undiversified, correlated, stand-alone domestic retail banking.
Moreover, it is more than a debate about public policy, because, in the post-crisis world, market incentives might point toward forms of separation between retail and investment banking.
These gains were visible in several sectors, including retail, wholesale trade, financial services, and the computer industry itself.
Amazon, having swept away bookshops, is now laying siege to the rest of the retail sector.
Putin has placed energy security at the top of the summit’s agenda, but that does not mask Russia’s ambition to dominate European markets by controlling the pipelines that carry its oil and gas, the refineries that process it, and the retail outlets that sell it.
In a few weeks, Xie and Tong hope to announce a retail partnership.
As a result, China’s online retail sales have surged in recent years, from 6.3% of total retail sales in 2012 to 12.9% by 2015.
By 2020, 40% of all retail transactions in China may be conducted online.
China has now overtaken the United States to build the world’s largest online retail market.
In the second quarter of 2016, Alibaba announced that its revenue from China’s retail market had increased by 49% year on year; another online platform, Tencent, reported a 52% increase.
But one has only to look to Seattle, where gay couples marry in City Hall and marijuana is sold in licensed retail outlets, to see the human capacity to reexamine deeply held assumptions.
Retail investors account for 85% of trades, in contrast to other major markets, where institutional investors – with their relative abundance of information – are the biggest traders.
Moreover, it is dominated by captive money from Chinese savers – the retail investors.
Retail consumers do not usually think about an entity such as ICE.
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