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Rather, they were the gross flows of finance from the US to Europe that allowed European banks to leverage their balance sheets, and the large, matching flows of money from European banks into toxic US subprime-linked securities.
So, before we in the West becomes too censorious of China’s quality control problems, we should remember our complicity in making China the world’s industrial park and global dumping ground for many toxic industries.
Companies using toxic materials want to anticipate which workers may be genetically sensitive to toxic exposure.
STOCKHOLM – The idea of a “bad bank” appears to grow more popular by the day in countries where toxic assets have paralyzed lending.
But, as with today’s toxic assets, there was no market, and rapid disinvestment would have triggered fire-sale prices, depressing all asset values in the economy and resulting in more bank failures.
The government that was returned on September 20 has the opposite mandate: to implement an “extend-and-pretend” bailout program – indeed, the most toxic variant ever.
Alas, those haircuts, while substantial, were too little, too late, and too toxic in terms of their financial and legal parameters.
But both the problem and its worsening reflect a toxic combination of deep-seated hostility and persistent neglect.
A natural substance, however, has no reason to be less toxic than a synthetic one.
Unfortunately, the EU has not adopted my ideas, and the toxic political atmosphere created by Hungary (and Poland) has reduced Europe’s capacity to receive and integrate refugees.
Many more suffer from the meager growth and barely rising incomes that result from the toxic combination of government overspending, burdensome regulations, and corrosive taxation.
Although DDT is a (modestly) toxic substance, there is a world of difference between applying large amounts of it in the environment – as farmers did before it was banned – and using it carefully and sparingly to fight mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects.
Because it persists after spraying, DDT works far better than many pesticides now in use, some of which are toxic to fish and other aquatic organisms.
Both processes leave toxic residues and somewhat less oily dirt.
They disparage hideous strip mines and toxic tailing ponds that even superstar marketers cannot “greenwash.”
In such cases, newly selected drug-resistant bacilli may appear, leaving only second-line drugs that are more toxic and expensive.
Iran’s problematic foreign policy is the result not of mismanagement, but of toxic ideology.
The river water, it turned out, corroded the city’s aging pipes; by the time it left the taps, it could contain high levels of toxic lead.
While hibernating bears can also survive for seven months or more without excreting their urinary wastes, humans would die from the buildup of these toxic substances after only a few days.
The difference between tolerable and toxic stress depends on the perceived degree of control that a person experiences.
Social support by friends and family is vital to ameliorating the effects of tolerable stress and keeping it from becoming toxic.
An unresolved financial crisis, a refugee crisis, a deteriorating security environment, and a stalled integration process have created throughout Europe a toxic, unstable political environment in which populism and nationalism thrive.
Alexey Navalny, the anti-corruption lawyer and the best-known remaining opposition leader, has faced everything from fake lawsuits to “patriots” spraying him with toxic chemicals.
It would not have protected European and other nations from becoming awash in toxic mortgage assets exported from the US.
The goal should be to develop better, less toxic treatment regimens that work faster than what is currently available.
But some US banks, including Bank of America and Citi, are still vulnerable, with considerable toxic assets (mainly related to home mortgages) on their balance sheets.
In short, far from leading some sort of worldwide Islamist revolution, the violent fanaticism of Al Qaeda and other organizations now resembles a repulsive, but manageable, form of ideological toxic waste.
Moreover, a recent study revealed that India’s toxic air is also dissuading executives from accepting assignments in Delhi: people are turning down lucrative jobs in order to save their lungs.
Learning from LehmanHONG KONG – When the US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed five years ago, emerging-market economies did not hold many of the toxic financial assets – mainly American subprime mortgages – that fueled the subsequent global financial crisis.
Today’s populism advances a toxic new xenophobia, one that threatens to fracture our societies.
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