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These shadow activities were the work of Citigroup and other large complex financial institutions that are subject to regulation.
The second set of shadow activities involves banking-type activities that really are conducted outside banks.
The third set of shadow activities includes those that may yet emerge.
Australia's Prime Minister Paul Keating recently spoke for many demonstrators and regional governments when he stated that the French nuclear test series at Mururoa Atoll "causes anger throughout the world not only because of concern for the Pacific environment but because it puts at risk our hopes for a post-Cold War world that does not have the nuclear shadow hanging over it".
Yet the best hope for escaping from the nuclear shadow lies not in stopping the small number of French and Chinese tests.
These challenges to the non-proliferation regime not only jeopardize the credibility, efficacy, and viability of the Treaty; they have also cast a long shadow of doubt on the future of nuclear disarmament itself.
But the Fund’s elegant compromise still leaves Greece under the shadow of an enormous debt overhang; reducing it requires that Europe find a way to set aside national politics and act on the basis of economic logic and necessity.
Simply put, when it comes to trust, history casts a long shadow.
Nowadays, low salaries make many lives here miserable, pensions are a joke, and the shadow economy is vast.
They existed as the shadow economy and I will never forget a visit to an institute in Moscow in 1983, where I had long conversation on the structures and functions of the shadow economy in the Soviet Union and the difficulties that arose from the fact that as, officially, this shadow economy did not exist there were no legal framework within which it could function.
Thus shadow economy developed its own crude legal framework and executed it with rather through brutal means.
The shadow economy at that time was said to produce between 25% - 35% of the GDP in the former Soviet Union.
Profit Sharing NowNEW YORK – At the British Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool this month, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, John McDonnell, proposed a profit-sharing scheme that would grant workers equity in the firms where they are employed.
Of course, you could fall back on more traditional reasons to believe in a round earth, like the fact that our planet projects a round-looking shadow on the moon during eclipses.
But this has reduced these banks’ effectiveness as financial intermediaries, while encouraging the rise of shadow banking to circumvent the restrictions.
There are no policies to reduce risks in shadow banks, insurance companies, or mutual funds.
The shadow banking sector’s dependence on the official banking sector’s liquidity and guarantees, and thus ultimately on the government, has not even been touched.
But, for investment banks, shadow banks, and especially commercial banks (with their expensive networks of branches and ATMs), such a policy makes it very difficult to report regular and healthy operating profits on their quarterly income statements and regular and healthy gains in their clients’ portfolios.
In the eurozone, shadow ratings already signaled red flags in the late 2000s in Greece and the other countries of the periphery.
Failure would cast a shadow over similar efforts in future.
Rumors flew of the creation of a shadow government by extremists in Paris.
The Future Global EconomyWASHINGTON, DC – As the world enters yet another year in the shadow of continued financial and economic crisis, a broader view of the contours of the future global economy is required.
But momentum is flagging, both on implementing the agreed reforms and on progress in areas like derivatives and shadow banking.
Collectivization casts a long shadow.
At the same time, in the words of Douglas Alexander, the former Labour shadow foreign secretary, “since the end of World War II, America has been the system operator of international order built on a strong, stable Transatlantic Alliance supported by the twin pillars of NATO and the EU.
SOEs may also use the unregulated shadow banking system to re-lend at higher interest rates the cheap money they receive to private businesses, which cannot borrow reliably from the formal banking system.
Whereas the interest rate of a one-year loan in the formal banking system is around 5%, the average one-year interest rate in the Wenzhou shadow banking market (to cite one example) was around 16% in November.
The world's largest democracy will soon be in action for the second time in two years in a desperate search to find a stable government, an extraordinarily difficult task now that the founding party of India's independence, Congress, is a pale shadow of its original self and the strengths of local, regional, religious and caste parties, not to say the phenomenal rise of the Hindu nationalist, Bharatiya Janata Party, are now the deciding factors in Indian politics.
In my research on organ trafficking, I have entered some of these shadow markets, where body parts from the poor, war victims, and prisoners are commodities, bought or stolen for transplant into affluent ill people.
These attacks, and others, have cast a dark shadow across the continent’s long-awaited economic rise.
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