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After seeing only one episode of Lexx I'm convinced this is really not able to be in the
shadow
of the original and very witty Science Fiction series Red Dwarf.
And those particular scenes are in fact just a
shadow
of the ones in the original Hellraisers.
'Big Brother' is without a
shadow
of a doubt the worst programme ever to have tainted our television screens.
We have a bunch of clichés thrown in among which the poor little daughter who lived her whole life in the mother's
shadow
was already brilliantly analyzed on screen by Bergman's Autumn Sonata (with Ingrid Bergman not this crazy old hag with artistic claims).
This made-for-TV 'extravaganza' is clearly intended to cash in on the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark and the other Indiana Jones films; however it is but a very pale
shadow.
The film is just a
shadow
of what could have been.
When he moves out of frame and stops, the
shadow
of his arm is just to the right of the door-frame and is very clearly in the shape of an erect penis.
Romance, adventure, sailing the high seas, sinister villains who desire to rule the world, cliff top fighting, F-16's, courageous heroes, bumbling sidekicks, daring heroines, over powering sandstorms, high speed train chases, mythical legends, desert runaways, native wrestling, pirate kings, daydreaming, secret maps, kidnapping, dastardly explosions, deadly death traps, and a couple who reunite in the
shadow
of doom.
Like in "Sleepy Hollow" why do they turn Ichabod Crane into a long-nosed, clueless moron who is frightened of his own
shadow?
Long-term spending and tax policies are enacted under the
shadow
of an emergency, with the party that happens to be in power at the time of the downturn getting to push its pet agenda.
Japan’s diplomatic isolation strengthens those in the Chinese leadership who have long sought to marginalize what is economically and militarily still Asia’s most powerful nation, while sucking other states in the region deeper into China’s
shadow.
The disintegration of an already fragmented country, the return of civil war, and the
shadow
of Iran’s power being cast over the Iraqi state are all plausible scenarios.
If a
shadow
falling over JPM from its trading desk had extended to its capacity to settle government debt properly, the economic fallout could have been severe.
Both questions reveal how much we still live in the
shadow
of the Nuremberg Tribunal, where the Nazi leaders were tried by an international judicial panel.
The answer lies in the unprecedented challenges that China faces, including corruption, pollution, unsustainable local debts, ghost towns,
shadow
banks, inefficient state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and excessive government control over the economy.
Yet, at the same time, the US supports Abu Mazen, trying to undermine the Hamas government, thus casting a
shadow
on the credibility of its own commitment to democracy.
It is likely to take the form of an opaque global credit glut, turbocharged by the fragile mixture of too-big-to-fail global banking with a huge and largely unwatched and unregulated
shadow
banking sector.
The alternative theory – of a global credit glut – gained more ground with the release last week of the Financial Stability Board’s report on
shadow
banking.
The FSB report contains startling revelations about the scale of global
shadow
banking, which it defines as “credit intermediation involving entities and activities outside the regular banking system.”
The report, which was requested by G-20 leaders at their summit in Seoul last November, found that between 2002 and 2007, the
shadow
banking system increased by $33 trillion, more than doubling in asset size from $27 trillion to $60 trillion.
The
shadow
banking system is estimated at roughly 25-30% of the global financial system ($250 trillion, excluding derivatives) and at half of total global banking assets.
The
shadow
banking system is complex, because it comprises a mix of institutions and vehicles.
Investment funds other than MMFs account for 29% of total, and SIVs make up 9%, but the
shadow
system also includes public financial institutions (such as the government-backed mortgage lender Fannie Mae in the US).
The trouble is that, by 2010, the
shadow
banking system was about the same size as it was just before the 2007 market crash, whereas the regulated global banking system was 18% larger than in 2007.
That is why the FSB report pinpoints the
shadow
banking system, together with the large global banks, as sources of systemic risk.
Specifically, global credit creation by the regular and
shadow
banking systems is likely to be significantly larger than the sum of the credit creation currently measured by national statistics.
Third, the interaction between the
shadow
banking system and the global banks is highly concentrated, because the global banks act as prime brokers, particularly for derivative trades.
Indeed, the nightmare scenario haunting the world is the collapse of another
shadow
banking entity, causing global trade to freeze, as happened in 2008.
We urgently need to monitor and understand the role of
shadow
banking and the too-big-to-fail banks in creating the global credit glut.
The Myitsone and Mekong incidents have now cast a
shadow
over these projects, fueling fear of a chain reaction that could wreck China’s two-decade-long effort to achieve deeper regional integration.
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