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Exploiting these opportunities will require
trillions
of dollars in investment, radical improvements in productivity, and the government’s firm, sustained commitment.
The US increased foreign aid by perhaps $4 billion a year at the same time that it increased military spending by $150 billion annually and cut taxes by
trillions
of dollars.
Meeting the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the WBG’s own goal of taking development finance from “from billions to trillions,” requires maximizing the potential of the latest capital increase.
More realistically, large corporations are sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars – indeed,
trillions
if aggregated across the advanced economies – because they already have too much capacity.
A purely free-market approach to the required energy transition would produce insufficient progress on emissions reductions and leave behind large stranded assets, representing
trillions
of dollars of wasted investment.
Trump recently suggested that the US should negotiate with its creditors to buy back much of its debt at a discount – in effect, a partial default on
trillions
of dollars of liabilities, intended to reduce the burden of debt service for taxpayers.
While the focus for the moment is on public-sector waste, that waste pales in comparison to the waste of resources resulting from a malfunctioning private financial sector, which in America already amounts to
trillions
of dollars.
After the war, each adopted a “never be surprised again” policy, and so went on to invest
trillions
of dollars in a multitude of hardened, mobile, and concealed nuclear weapons to deter the other.
Banks are also using accounting tricks to hide
trillions
in further exposures.
The worldwide cost of infrastructure capable of responding to the intensifying water crisis could amount to
trillions
of dollars, and its development would itself be energy-intensive.
Its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – the important agenda that will shape the allocation of
trillions
of dollars of spending on government aid over the next 15 years – include an unmanageable 169 complex development targets.
While many lost jobs, homes, and hopes,
trillions
of dollars in savings have been sloshing around the world’s financial centers ever since, on top of more
trillions
pumped out by desperate central banks eager to replace the financiers’ toxic money.
Given the
trillions
of dollars of potential losses from human-induced climate change, and the
trillions
of dollars invested annually in global energy systems, the world’s governments would be wise to invest tens of billions of dollars each year in the research and development needed to achieve a low-carbon energy future.
Moreover,
trillions
of dollars have been wasted, with the few positive effects of the US-led military intervention already beginning to fade, and its many adverse consequences continuing to destabilize the region.
Greening Financial ReformSEOUL –
Trillions
of dollars in “green finance” – that is, low-carbon, resource-efficient investment – are needed annually to prevent climate change and natural constraints from stalling the global economy and threatening the livelihoods of billions of people.
This could well create a financial tsunami worth
trillions
of dollars, which explains the energy with which the European Central Bank and its president, Jean-Claude Trichet, have tried to head off the worst.
China has financial weapons, including
trillions
of dollars of US debt.
With a cap-and-trade system, the costs – in terms of jobs, household consumption, and economic growth – are hidden, shifted around, and not easy to estimate, though models indicate they will run into
trillions
of dollars.
Developing countries can benefit from the opening of markets to new trade and investment, while the developed world can benefit from the infusion of new customers, suppliers, and capital (possibly in the
trillions
of dollars).
Otherwise, their firms would have been able to tap the
trillions
of dollars now sitting on the sidelines, held by sovereign wealth funds, private equity groups, hedge funds, and others.
Indeed, they are the only way for us to stop wasting
trillions
of dollars on financial bubbles, useless wars, and environmentally destructive forms of energy.
First, there are limits to how many
trillions
of dollars China can, and should, put into US Treasury bills.
But we all know that these countries and their national banks were able to spend
trillions
of dollars in a few months to bail out their bankers, who earned super-profits when the going was good.
If the developed world is able to pay
trillions
of dollars to clean up its bankers’ mess, how is it possible that it cannot afford to pay billions of dollars to clean up a mess that it created, and that is threatening the survival of whole continents?
First, US interventions, which have cost the country
trillions
of dollars and thousands of lives over the past decade, have consistently destabilized the Middle East, while causing massive suffering in the affected countries.
The ozone layer is healing and, according to the latest estimates, it could recover by 2065, saving
trillions
of dollars in global health-care and agriculture costs.
GCC countries have made such investments for the past four or five decades, and ongoing construction projects in the GCC are estimated to run in the
trillions
of dollars.
The favored bogeymen of the day are giant government investors, particularly Asian central banks, with their
trillions
of dollars in assets.
From 2004 to 2013, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) bought
trillions
of dollars in foreign-exchange reserves, thereby preventing the renminbi from appreciating as much as it would have had it floated freely.
Rich-country households have suffered a momentous loss of wealth (amounting to tens of
trillions
of US dollars).
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