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Claims that they lack the needed resources ring hollow, as
trillions
of dollars were found to bail out banks in the financial crisis.
One hypothesis is that foreign central banks that were accumulating
trillions
of dollars finally figured out that they were likely to be holding these reserves for years to come, and could afford to put at least some of the money into medium-term US treasury notes yielding (initially) far higher returns than T-bills.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office agrees that even without Bush's new expenditure initiatives and tax proposals, costing
trillions
of dollars, the deficit will not be eliminated in the foreseeable future - or even cut in half, as Bush has promised.
In addition to our own genes, each of us carries the genes of tens of
trillions
of microbial passengers.
The sums required for this could ultimately run into trillions, according to an estimate by Citibank.
Against this background, major changes in Fed policy – such as the decision to purchase
trillions
of dollars’ worth of securities or push interest rates to zero – could easily be subjected to legislative approval (except in times of emergency).
Germany increasingly recognizes that if the adjustment needed to restore growth, competitiveness, and debt sustainability in the eurozone’s periphery comes through austerity and internal devaluation rather than debt restructuring and exit (leading to the reintroduction of sharply depreciated national currencies), the cost will most likely be
trillions
of euros.
A futile attempt to avoid a breakup for a year or two – after wasting
trillions
of euros in additional official financing by the core – would mean a disorderly end, including the destruction of the single market, owing to the introduction of protectionist policies on a massive scale.
As the Business and Sustainable Development Commission has shown, pursuing the SDGs “could raise
trillions
in new market opportunities in ways that extend prosperity to all.”
The US Federal Reserve Board has pumped out
trillions
of dollars of reserves, but never have so many reserves produced so little monetary growth.
If real per capita GDP growth had continued after 1990 at the rate of the 1980’s, Japan’s economy would be 60% larger than it is today – implying losses in the
trillions
of dollars.
And for the processed food industry, that fact has been worth
trillions
of dollars.
Most of the investment projects that the emerging world needs are long term, as are much of the available savings – the
trillions
in retirement accounts, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds.
The latter two wars have been politically self-defeating for the US, in addition to costing it
trillions
of dollars.
Since 2000, the US and other countries have squandered
trillions
of dollars on wars and arms purchases.
Huge investments – worth
trillions
of euros – will be needed to meet global energy requirements.
The sums lost because poor countries obtain only a fraction of their economic potential are measured in
trillions
of dollars.
The final decision about which targets will become global policy will affect the flow of
trillions
of dollars over the next 15 years.
At that point, global policymakers got religion and started to use most of the weapons in their arsenal: vast fiscal-policy easing; conventional and unconventional monetary expansion;
trillions
of dollars in liquidity support, recapitalization, guarantees, and insurance to stem the liquidity and credit crunch; and, finally, massive support to emerging-market economies.
Most of the shadow banking system has disappeared, and traditional commercial banks are saddled with
trillions
of dollars in expected losses on loans and securities while still being seriously undercapitalized.
Politicians and judges are bought, and natural resources worth
trillions
of dollars are sold to powerful corporations for a pittance.
But, as David Lubin recalls in his book Dance of the Trillions, the party ended abruptly before the year was over, owing largely to US interest-rate hikes, which drew liquidity back into the United States.
Africa is a continent rich in energy, holding two-thirds of the world’s reserves of hydro-electric power –
trillions
of kilowatt-hours representing about half of total world resources.
New obstacles to free trade not only take us in the wrong direction; they also undermine the best opportunity to transform the lives of billions of the world’s poorest people and realize benefits worth
trillions
of dollars every year.
The losses also include failure to conserve the world’s dwindling wildlife and rapidly degrading ecosystems, which are worth
trillions
of dollars in terms of life-supporting services.
Though no single institutional investor can make a significant difference, hundreds of large investors holding
trillions
of dollars of assets certainly can.
What if, instead of spending
trillions
of dollars trying to build an impossible number of power plants – or, more likely, condemning billions of people around the world to continued poverty by trying to make carbon-emitting fuels too expensive to use – we devoted ourselves to making green energy cheaper?
To that end, in 2015, the World Bank and other MDBs launched a strategy to increase development financing “from billions to trillions,” by using public finance to “crowd in” private investment, especially from large institutional investors like pension and insurance funds.
Only decisive progress on these fronts will unlock the
trillions
of corporate dollars that, rather than being invested in new plants and equipment, remain stranded on companies’ balance sheets or are handed over to shareholders via higher dividends and share buybacks.
No, I am just proposing that emerging markets shift a significant share of the
trillions
of dollars in foreign-currency reserves that they now hold (China alone has official reserves of $3.3 trillion) into gold.
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