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As
shadow
banking has become the primary source of finance for SMEs – which tend to be higher-risk borrowers – the financial risks in China’s economy have grown exponentially.
America’s Other 30%NEW HAVEN – The American consumer is but a
shadow
of its former almighty self.
Instead of taking a direct approach – lifting the interest-rate cap imposed on banks – liberalization has been achieved by allowing
shadow
banking to flourish.
And the craven refusal to live up to the Budapest Memorandum is casting a
shadow
on the credibility of other international guarantees and agreements, including the mutual-defense assurance that lies at the heart of NATO membership.
But its
shadow
hung over me throughout my formative years.
Although nuclear power ranks as a “clean” source of energy, it is accompanied by the terrible
shadow
of nuclear war, which emerged from Japan’s last reckoning with nuclear catastrophe, 65 years ago at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and which lends it an automatic association with mass destruction and death.
So, it is time, he wrote Merkel, to “make the
shadow
of World War II disappear.”
More recently, the incomplete contract approach has also been used in the area of
shadow
banking.
Fox has every right to celebrate the recent initiative announced by President Bush to assist some currently illegal immigrants to the US come out of the
shadow
economy, and he should congratulate himself for pressing Bush to make this effort.
China, meanwhile, has cast a long
shadow
over the Japanese parliamentary elections.
As America’s
shadow
has receded, Saudi Arabia and Iran have become more aggressive, even irresponsible, in pursuing their interests.
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde recently put it more starkly, noting that the world’s 85 richest people control more wealth than the world’s 3.5 billion poorest people, and that this degree of inequality is casting a dark
shadow
over the global economy.
Such a sudden, belated disclosure of executive malpractice casts a dark
shadow
over the entire firm.
That
shadow
extends to the claim that corporate governance in Japan has been improving substantially, following reforms encouraged by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government.
The US does not want to live under the
shadow
of a North Korea that possesses long-range missiles capable of delivering nuclear payloads to American cities.
There is no moral equivalent of war on the horizon to pull the US into a mighty boom and erase the
shadow
cast by the downturn; and when I take present values and project the US economy’s lower-trend growth into the future, I cannot reckon the present value of the additional loss at less than a further 100% of a year’s output today – for a total cost of 1.6 years of GDP.
The world emerged from the Great War in the
shadow
of a mountain of debt that the victorious Allies owed to one another (the US being the only net creditor), and by the losers to the victors.
Finally, as China has become more confident and assertive, its
shadow
over Russia has grown longer and thicker.
European integration in the
shadow
of WWII was a wise and magnificent achievement.
Brazil is in the midst of a political crisis, China is dealing with the aftereffects of prolonged fiscal expansion and explosive growth in its
shadow
banking system, and lower commodity prices are undermining economic performance in many other emerging markets.
But it will be a mere
shadow
of what it should, and could, be.
Assuming that continued subnormal output casts a 10%
shadow
on future potential output levels, that extra $150 billion of production means that in the future, when the economy has recovered, there will be an extra $15 billion of output – and an extra $5 billion of tax revenue.
If China’s traditional and
shadow
banking systems end up holding loans amounting to more than 300% of GDP, then somewhere there will be companies, households, and government entities with bank deposits or other fixed-income assets equal to over 270% of GDP (with the other 30% or so being investments in bank equity).
Finally, casting a long
shadow
over everything, is Menem.
There is also the question of how to protect financial stability from risks arising from
shadow
banking, including the risk of contagion to traditional banking, which ring-fencing helps to contain.
Because in the existing system of power any individual, with the exception of those totally dependent on state support (pensioners, handicapped, etc.), is better off dealing with their problems on their own, either by operating in the
shadow
economy with complete disregard for the state or through "personal" relationships with governmental officials.
Intelligence, diplomacy, security forces, and educating people to the requirements of life lived under the
shadow
of an invisible menace must all be brought to bear.
On the day of the vote, a controversial decision by Turkey’s Supreme Electoral Council concerning the acceptability of ballots that lacked the official stamps on the back heightened worries about voting irregularities and cast a
shadow
on the legitimacy of the result – which is now being strongly, albeit futilely, contested.
In memory, then, the Twin Towers still stand tall, still cast a
shadow
into our lives.
In the meantime, governments should use a
shadow
carbon price and carbon discount rate in their decision-making processes.
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