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Once again, the health-care sector, fearing a loss of money and autonomy, mobilized determined opposition.
In the nonfinancial sector, failing companies often wait too long before declaring bankruptcy, so creditors may step in to do some pushing, potentially even forcing a bankruptcy of a failed firm.
The government can do that – and it can make sure that either the bank will repay the loans (by getting good collateral) or that the financial sector overall will cover the repayment (as Dodd-Frank authorized and required).
Aid to agriculture, a declining sector, consumes over 40% of spending and little is spent on the future (R&D) or on fields in which the EU must assume new responsibilities, such as internal and external security.
If banks are driven, for any reason, to reduce lending to the private sector, monetary policy may become less effective, ineffective, or even counter-productive.
And Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to postpone a risky consumption-tax hike planned for next year, while also announcing supplementary budgets to increase spending and boost the household sector’s purchasing power.
There are several reasons why so much perishable food is lost, including the absence of modern food distribution chains, too few cold-storage centers and refrigerated trucks, poor transportation facilities, erratic electricity supply, and the lack of incentives to invest in the sector.
Big banks’ ability to extort such an arrangement stems from an implicit threat: the financial sector – and with it the economy’s payment system – would collapse if a systemically important bank were ever pushed into insolvency.
Moreover, having built the needed physical infrastructure in the last decade (perhaps to excess), China is now emphasizing the software infrastructure needed to sustain the growth of its burgeoning services sector.
And no one predicted the intensity of the CCP’s campaign to root out corruption, including in the military, the financial sector, and the highest levels of the party itself.
But improving access to the formal financial sector is a unique challenge that cannot be tackled with foreign aid or government handouts.
This is the latest in a series of revelations of how US information-technology firms have been enlisted, knowingly or otherwise, in the “war on terror” – revelations that are threatening the American IT sector’s global dominance.
Given that America’s IT sector is so far ahead globally, the impact of these perceptions will remain largely localized in the short term.
Given how extensively the NSA’s activities have degraded global trust in America’s government and IT sector, nothing less than complete transparency is required.
A key challenge here lies in stemming the migration of China’s top talent to the private sector.
For some, the informal sector includes all businesses that have not been registered with the authorities.
For still others, programs that target the informal sector distort the playing field.
The informal sector is mostly a consequence of the fact that people are disconnected from modern production networks – an inefficiency that will not be resolved simply by reducing the cost of registering a business or forcing small firms to pay taxes.
A national investment bank would be capitalized by the government, borrow from the private sector, and invest in infrastructure, housing, and “greening” the economy.
And, in fact, it wasn’t: monetary policy was explicitly intended to buy time for households, the financial sector, and sovereigns to repair their balance sheets and for growth-enhancing policies to kick in.
The other is capital-flow volatility, which has driven policymakers in some countries to pursue their own monetary easing or to impose capital controls, in order to prevent damage to growth in the tradable sector.
But framing the issue this way creates a major problem for Boehner: it will directly, completely, and quickly antagonize one of the Republicans’ most important constituencies – the US corporate sector.
Among others, the US corporate sector – big and small business – would be livid.
But any manufactured debt crisis now would deeply antagonize the corporate sector – and most of the electorate.
The report now shows only the aggregate figure, which combines central bank holdings with those of the private sector.
Should current sanctions fail to do the job, Europe and the US should widen them to include the oil and gas sector, which is the engine (and soft underbelly) of the Russian economy.
We need to move beyond the system that gave us the crisis – a financial sector in which some, as the ancient Greeks might say, toyed with hubris and unleashed nemesis.
In the process, it will shed lower-value-added jobs in its export sector as production moves to lower-cost developing countries.
Notably, the business sector is asked to take a more active role to reduce its carbon footprint, commit to 100% renewable energy and zero emissions, shift investments into renewable energy, adopt more sustainable business models, and assist in the divestment from fossil fuels.
Spend in haste, repent at leisure: America’s latest bailout planCambridge – With minds concentrated by fears of another 1930’s-style Great Depression, America’s politicians have adopted, virtually overnight, a $700 billon bailout plan to resuscitate the country’s rapidly deflating financial sector.
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