One day, I checked my bank balance and realized there was several hundred dollars missing.
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The plan would stabilize local property values and simultaneously remove bad loans from bank balance sheets.
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This is a tough job, closely related to the restructuring of bank balance sheets.
Third, the sorry condition of bank balance sheets has made them reluctant to lend.
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All that would accomplish would be to transfer the bank balance to the money market fund.
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We regard these latest expansions of central bank balance sheets as a form of clandestine quantitative easing.
In practice, any Saudi with a computer and a flexible bank balance can already look at any website.
With his backroom savvy, copious network and tidy bank balance, he is also a master of Thailand's old-style politicking.
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S. Eliot analyzed bank balance sheets in the foreign section of Lloyds Bank.
"It will take many years before bank balance sheets and fiscal positions return to anything like normal, " said Mr King.
Even so companies may well have to draw on uncommitted credit facilities with banks, expanding the size of bank balance-sheets.
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On the other hand, corporate credit is cheap, though more of it is being financed by investors than bank balance sheets.
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They are still embedded in the system (think bank balance sheets), or they show up somewhere else (think sovereign balance sheets).
What's missing in the latest plan, however, is any mention of how troubled assets will be marked on bank balance sheets.
The Treasury, of course, must move with alacrity in removing those impaired mortgages and other exotic instruments off of bank balance sheets.
He took an inordinate amount of time to come up with his complex plan to remove toxic assets from bank balance sheets.
It was due to confusion about loan values on bank balance sheets.
It added, though, that the recovery will be weak if governments don't take further action to remove uncertainty from bank balance sheets.
Treasury's plan to remove bad assets from bank balance sheets could help.
Bloomfield provides references to major central bank balance sheets around the world.
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Unlike the Fed, which purchased questionable assets from bank balance sheets and put them on its own, the ECB has not followed suit.
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The more insurmountable problem is that even if bank balance sheets were made whole again, it might not make sense for banks to lend.
"One continuing uncertainty is whether the troubled assets that remain on bank balance sheets can again become the trigger for instability, " the report says.
One problem is that investors have lost confidence in bank balance sheets, making it hard to assess what the true probability of default might be.
But central bank balance sheets are ultimately the liability of taxpayers: only elected governments have the legitimacy to decide what fiscal risks should be borne by citizens.
If you think the new accounting rules for mark-to-market accounting caused havoc on bank balance sheets and accelerated the crisis, then this would have been far worse.
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The money market fund might then use the funds to buy government bonds, but that would just transfer the bank balance to the previous owner of those bonds.
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What will more foreclosures do to already-battered bank balance sheets?
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