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Definitions. In your author’s opinion, the writedown of Greek debt falls clearly within the S&P definition of sovereign default. Undeterred however by rating agency definitions, European leaders have characterised the writedown as a voluntary “ private-sector involvement ” or PSI. Business Strategy. Helpful Links.
Definitions. Thirdly, European banks are currently focused on building their balancesheets not on lending. Dexia has around $700 billion on its balancesheet, but like many banks it requires access to short term funding. Business Strategy. Helpful Links. Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet?
Note that people often get hung up on definitions of “platform” these days. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balancesheet. Different companies can pursue quite different platform strategies based on what kinds of capital they choose to network together.
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Draghiz e: "The test is credible because the ultimate purpose of it is to restore or strengthen private sector confidence in the soundness of the banks, in the quality of their balancesheets" Mish : The test is credible because we say it is. Spanish officials claim it makes no sense to penalize these asset as if they were bad loans.
More Questions Any banks fudging the definition of a performing loan? What about mark-to-market valuations of loans and assets on the balancesheets of banks? Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' Are loan loss provisions high enough?
The simple definition V = GDP/M where V is velocity, M is money supply, and GDP is Gross Domestic Product. I prefer the definition of deflation as a pathological slowing in the velocity of money. However, I disagree with his definition of deflation based on velocity. It''s simply a truism based on Fekete''s definition.
When I began investing, one looked at the real property on balancesheets. In today''s tech driven world, the definition of value is more cloudy than ever before, especially since all transactions and exchanges are literally fabricated from thin air and deposited in "The Cloud".
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They are happy for the financial sector to experiment with new products on- and off-balancesheet, allowing the system gently to displace state allocation of capital through decreed interest rates, loan quotas, loan-to-deposit ratios and specific credit restrictions.
Despite the unprecedented increase in the Federal Reserve’s balancesheet, growth in M2 over the first nine months of this year fell below its average rate of growth over the past 115 years, a time when the growth in the monetary base was stable and quite modest. The answer depends on the definition. So which is it?
This means that the foreign currency reserves are simply the asset side of a balancesheet against which there are liabilities. Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.' The reason is because in any case debt must either be serviced or the borrower must default.
Without paying banks interest to hold excess reserves idle in the banking system, the Fed could reduce its balancesheet by more than one-third (over $1.4 By definition, nominal GDP is equal to the monetary base multiplied by the “velocity” of the monetary base. Notice something. Here’s another relationship you can count on.
This model rests on an understanding of how distortions in the savings rates of different countries have driven the great trade and balance-sheet distortions with which we are wrestling today, just as they have in most previous global crises, including those of the 1870s, the 1930s, and the 1970s. I suggest "something else".
After the bond market rejected Beijing’s plan to float the debt issued by local governments earlier this year, Chinese leaders simply ordered state-owned banks to buy such debt, adding assets of dubious quality to their balancesheet. Even after its recent plunge, Chinese stock prices are overvalued.
Chicago used interest rate swaps on its 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009 bond deals, apparently as part of a synthetic fixed rate strategy. ( It is not a balancesheet test, but a cash flow test. So Chicago is not bankrupt by definition (yet) and has a huge tax base. This probably wasn’t an accident either.
As a staunch deflationist, as well as someone who is definitely not agnostic regarding gold, I am proof enough. Contrary to 1979/1980, the current gold bull market will unlikely end due to a sudden strong rise in interest rates, as the balancesheets of governments, households and corporations are tainted by huge debt.
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