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In March, Britain’s leading scandal sheet, The News of the World published an “exclusive” front page story, under the headline “F1 BOSS HAS SICK NAZI ORGY WITH 5 HOOKERS.”
For, when it comes to China, Clinton and Obama are yizhang baizhi , “a sheet of blank paper.”
More important, the Fed’s $4.5 trillion balance sheet has since grown more than fivefold.
Europe gave us the last two world wars, and to the balance sheet of monstrosities must be added its grotesque refinements in the art of murder: the Holocaust and the Gulag.
Two of the world’s three largest economies come to mind: China, given the strength of its balance sheet, and the eurozone, given the euro’s status as a reserve currency.
The other narrative describes an economy that is encumbered by never-ending European debt crises whose perpetrators seek to shift their responsibility – and their financing needs – onto Germany’s pristine balance sheet.
Antarctica’s Point of No ReturnPOTSDAM – Recent satellite observations have confirmed the accuracy of two independent computer simulations that show that the West Antarctic ice sheet has now entered a state of unstoppable collapse.
It is inevitable that the warmer the world gets, the greater the risk that other parts of the Antarctic will reach a similar tipping point; in fact, we now know that the Wilkes Basin in East Antarctica, as big or even bigger than the ice sheet in the West, could be similarly vulnerable.
Rather than reacting to global warming with gradual and predictable patterns of change, the West Antarctic ice sheet has suddenly “tipped” into a new state.
What is important is that we recognize the existence of gigantic parts of the earth’s climate system – such as West Antarctica’s three-quadrillion-ton ice sheet – that can be tipped when a fractional temperature rise occurs in key locations.
Although West Antarctica’s fate is sealed, we may still be able to prevent the collapse of East Antarctica’s marine ice sheet.
“Behind the Brands” includes a score sheet, ranking the Big 10 on a range of issues, including their impact on workers, water, land, women, and climate change.
Back in 2002, all of China’s major banks were awash in non-performing loans (NPLs), which in some cases amounted to more than 10% of the total balance sheet.
For Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues, there seems to be a growing sense that the economic emergency has passed, implying that extraordinary action – namely, a zero-interest-rate policy and a near-quadrupling of its balance sheet – is no longer appropriate.
Bear failed in 2008 as its mounting real-estate losses prevented it from quickly rolling over its repo debt, which made up fully one-quarter of its balance sheet.
Then, a year later, Lehman failed with one-third of its balance sheet in repo.
Repo debt seems to have made up an astounding one-half of MF Global’s balance sheet.
Just as major stakeholders in a business generate such costs by changing their behavior when the firm’s balance sheet becomes too risky, an economy’s stakeholders respond to rising default risk in ways that reduce growth and, in a vicious feedback loop, increase financial fragility further.
As these stakeholders take steps to protect themselves from the default that they view as increasingly likely, they undermine GDP growth and weaken the economy’s balance sheet, thus raising the risk of default further.
The second factor is how highly “inverted” the country’s balance sheet is (that is, how debt-servicing costs are correlated with economic performance).
As it turned out, Spain’s banking system was overexposed to the real-estate sector when it went bust, making the country’s balance sheet much more vulnerable than its nominal debt level suggested.
Clearly, the debt/GDP ratio alone is inadequate to determine how fragile a country’s government balance sheet is, and, in turn, how debt will affect economic growth.
Rather, they are rooted in the feedback loops embedded in a country’s economic institutions and balance sheet – loops that are often ignored when the economy is growing and asset prices are rising.
Given this, purging Detroit’s balance sheet (specifically, the disproportionate unfunded liabilities that have plunged it deep into the red) is the best – maybe even the only – available path to renewal.
Moreover, US accounting standards have been unable to cope with bookkeeping's uncharted frontiers of off-balance sheet transactions, structured financing methods, and Byzantine contract valuations.
If deep reforms do not happen it will become increasingly harder to muster growth, while bank and corporate balance sheet problems will become larger as the real economy increasingly limps.
Instead of falling on foreign banks in just a few exposed countries, a default would land mostly on the ECB’s balance sheet, whose losses are distributed to all eurozone central banks – a soft form of debt socialization that may well prepare the ground for Eurobond-type solutions.
The balance sheet is improved by $500 million.
This approach has the added advantage of preventing different risk profiles and their appropriate capital requirements from getting mixed up in the same entity and balance sheet.
Gone are the days when banks could set up branches all over the planet, with support from the parent’s balance sheet.
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