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...in which our hero trades in his Saturday Night Fever for a pair of leg warmers and a synthesized soundtrack.
The top talents of all entertainment trades were used in this treasured piece .
While Sandel worries about the corrupting nature of some monetized transactions (do kids really develop a love of reading if they are bribed to read books?), he is also concerned about unequal access to money, which makes trades using money inherently unequal.
As for blockchain itself, there is no institution under the sun – bank, corporation, non-governmental organization, or government agency – that would put its balance sheet or register of transactions, trades, and interactions with clients and suppliers on public decentralized peer-to-peer permissionless ledgers.
The London Whale trades, for example, were from early 2012; had they occurred in 2008, when the financial system was fragile, JPM, it is said, would have gotten a legal pass.
JPM’s London Whale trades – bets on the future state of the American economy that JPM could not reverse without big losses – were of a type that the bank could readily have made in 2008.
Now consider how destabilizing it would have been had the same escalating series of announcements that JPM issued in the wake of the London Whale trades come during the financial crisis: It’s not $2 billion, but $4 billion; no, it’s not just $4 billion, but $6 billion.
Indeed, JPM runs one of the two major private operations for settling major trades of government debt.
Israel now trades more with the once implacably hostile Asian giants – China, India, and Japan – than it does with its leading global ally, the United States.
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.
Data from the US Comptroller of Currency suggest that the top five US banks account for 96% of the total over-the-counter (OTC) derivative trades in the US.
If a major bank defaults on its derivative trades, the banks with which it has traded could also fail.
In particular, bonuses based on medium-term results of risky trades and investments must supplant bonuses based on short-term outcomes.
Would New York, Frankfurt, or even Paris receive a competitive boost as international bankers, alarmed at the prospect of time behind bars if their derivative trades blow up again, flee the City?
This assumption is based on a number of such trades, including 1,150 Arabs, mostly Palestinians, for three Israelis in 1985; 123 Lebanese for the remains of two Israeli soldiers in 1996; and 433 Palestinians and others for an Israeli businessman and the bodies of three soldiers in 2004.
While trades involving sewing – textiles, apparel, shoes – are not yet being automated much, it is probably only a matter of time before they are.
Wall Streeters, however, offer a counterargument: for any financial institution to, say, bet on the decline of the dollar against the yuan over the next five years in a serious, leveraged way is to put its survival at risk should the trades go wrong.
And trades do go wrong: remember the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management.
A fifth indicator is South Korean trade data, which is consistently reported on the first day of each month after trades occur – faster than any other country.
Instead of having different trades and subsectors jostling for room on construction sites, the bulk of the work would be carried out offsite, in a controlled environment.
One key sign is the documented change in the character of oil trading, with speculators (i.e., financial institutions and hedge funds) now accounting for 70% of trades, up from 37% seven years ago.
Recent reports suggest that there are more than three million unfilled job openings, and about 49% of employers say that they have difficulty filling positions, especially in information technology, engineering, and skilled trades.
The problem is that trading will likely collapse in many areas, and many financial trades will be executed in other countries.
A common slogan is that Europe's social model trades less economic growth for more social protection and less risk.
A decent banking system has two functions: to look after depositors’ money and to bring together savers and investors in mutually profitable trades.
In pre-modern times, men also sought to restrain markets: by organizing trades and crafts, by restricting the entry into markets.
Moreover, London's unique role in bringing together the full range of financial services that serve the continent – the City is home to 250 global banks with 160,000 employees and accounts for 80% of Europe's hedge funds, 78% of its foreign-exchange trades, 74% of its derivatives, and 57% of its private equity – would be jeopardized as well.
Looking at the full range of countries with which China trades implies that the overall value of the renminbi probably declined in the past 12 months.
At the same time, one need only recall the damage that unregulated carry trades wrought on Asian economies in the 1990’s to understand why China must erect barriers to protect its domestic markets from inflows of hot money.
European leaders claim that they can create mechanisms to ensure that their residents pay the tax, regardless of where trades are booked.
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