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Last year, researchers working in Antarctica observed that major parts of the ice sheet appear to be collapsing irrevocably.
For Italy, that means that the health of its consolidated balance sheet can be used in conjunction with reforms and parameter shifts in the pension system to restore fiscal balance and boost growth over time.
One rationale for the initiative was to bullet-proof the SNB's balance sheet against losses.
Because the government can still borrow mainly from the Japanese people, its balance sheet remains stable.
The first camp, arguing that the real economy is what matters, wants the BOJ to stop providing stimulus and start worrying about its bloated balance sheet.
When the inflation rate moves closer to the target, the BOJ will have to start raising its policy and long-term rates without adjusting the size of its balance sheet – which is exactly what the US Federal Reserve is already doing.
In principle, an independent and respected advisory council could also force governments to acknowledge the hidden costs of government guarantees and off-balance sheet debts.
The Chinese public sector has a huge balance sheet, including land, a vast array of infrastructure, massive foreign-exchange reserves, and major equity positions in state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which account for more than one-half of net fixed assets and one-third of profits in the corporate sector.
That term has already spawned a new abbreviation, “CVE," used no fewer than 12 times in a Fact Sheet released by the Obama administration on February 18.
In the last year alone, the stock of bonds on the Fed’s balance sheet has risen more than 20%.
On the other side of the balance sheet, and despite his global outreach, Pope John Paul II cannot be described as particularly ecumenical.
Attention is increasingly – and, in my view, rightly – being focused on the role of the state, and in particular on the state’s balance sheet.
In the last four years, the United States Federal Reserve’s balance sheet has more than tripled, from under $1 trillion to a mammoth $3 trillion.
The Bank of England’s balance sheet is also at 20% of GDP.
Its balance sheet has now doubled, to a whopping 30% of GDP – and it, too, appears set to do even more.
Third, while pesification removes balance sheet losses from domestic foreign-currency debts, external contractual obligations cannot be redenominated unilaterally.
Indeed, at this point, the average duration of US debt (integrating the Fed’s balance sheet) is now under three years, well below that of most European countries, even taking into account their own central banks’ massive quantitative-easing (QE) programs.
Yet it remains unclear whether the ECB actually would be willing to leave part of its balance sheet exposed to the fate of non-eurozone countries.
Revaluation upward, the inevitable result of floating the renminbi, would increase the burden of renminbi-denominated debt, making the balance sheet problems of Chinese banks and state-owned enterprise harder to correct.
Floating the renmimbi can--and should--wait until China's bank balance sheet problems have been addressed and its monetary system and capital markets become more developed and ready to play a stable role in global finance.
Indeed, sovereigns are dumping a larger fraction of their public debt onto banks’ balance sheet, especially in the eurozone.
Similar reckless lending practices prevailed in the leveraged buyout market, where private equity firms take over public companies and finance the deals with high debt ratios; the leveraged loan market, where banks provide financing to private equity firms; and the asset-backed commercial paper market, where banks use off-balance sheet schemes to borrow very short term.
The most leveraged big US bank, Morgan Stanley, has less than 4% equity, meaning that 96% of its balance sheet is some form of debt.
The latest significant development to surface is what Better Markets, a pro-reform group that has put out a helpful fact sheet, calls “de facto guaranteed foreign subsidiaries” that trade derivatives – a murky phenomenon that likely involves all the big players.
But, as Dennis Kelleher of Better Markets points out, when pressure mounts and a crisis seems around the corner, banks will face great pressure to bring such subsidiaries back onto their balance sheet.
The combination of product-specific funding facilities and the first round of quantitative easing sent the Fed’s balance sheet soaring to $2.3 trillion by March 2009, from its pre-crisis level of $900 billion in the summer of 2008.
Two further rounds of QE expanded the Fed’s balance sheet by another $2.1 trillion between late 2009 and today, but yielded little in terms of jump-starting the real economy.
From late 2008 to May 2014, the Fed’s balance sheet increased by a total of $3.4 trillion, well in excess of the $2.6 trillion increase in nominal GDP over the same period.
This was not simply a matter of shrinking the overall balance sheet; domestic assets grew by 70% during the same period.
Moreover, a UWF would have an independent balance sheet, allowing it to fund the maintenance costs that often account for four-fifths of a project’s total expense.
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