The government, meanwhile, has been acting like Santa Claus.

This would enable central banks to hold instruments that behave like a widely diversified global equity portfolio.

Here, Europe acts as a union, and other countries like Japan and China play big roles.

Why are you acting this way?

Think before acting!

In rare cases, labor unions act as major investors, such as with the creation of the Labour Party in Britain, but are generally overshadowed by corporations.

Enough with these clown countries, he added.

She didn't know what to do with the problem.

According to an unwritten rule that has emerged over the years, central banks can do as they see fit, as long as they keep inflation stable over the medium term.

Investors might choose other places for their excess cash, like banks.

It may be intramural or involve the intervention of foreign powers acting individually or through international bodies such as the United Nations.

Israel is too small to act foolishly.

Its member organizations are the G 20 s central banks and top regulatory agencies.

If faced with such losses, banks might choose to protect their reputations by using official funds for repayment, transferring the risk onto their balance sheets.

A you've got to act when other people are passive.

Such large banks are needed because small players alone cannot make a market.

But Americans blame irresponsible banks, while Europeans blame irresponsible southern countries like Greece.

It's very easy to react.

It would be each country for itself.

It must learn to act as a benign hegemon.

Bank regulation, like lending, was once decentralized and judgment based.

Foreign banks could never hope to achieve such comprehensive coverage without a local partner.

The first is the failure of central banks to adopt a rule like nominal GDP targeting or its equivalent.

Central banks like the Fed and the Bank of England seem to have forgotten that history.

I sincerely hope that the Member States will act on these recommendations.

In response, investment banks branched into new businesses like originating and distributing complex derivative securities.

I think we need financial and economic experts to study such a phenomenon, and its effect on banks, and the country's economy as a whole.

Chen replies that it is China that is acting provocatively today.

In the short run, of course, the US behaves like an ordinary power.

Particularly, Women Unions at various levels are allowed by the Government to act as credit guarantors for their members' loans.

Many European banks may not have understood this, yet they still shied away from revealing these dubious investments on their balance sheets.

Like the Ertebølle culture, the settlements were concentrated near water, in this case creeks, riverdunes and bogs along post glacial banks of rivers like the Overijsselse Vecht.

Such monetary systems can succeed only as long as the central bank can credibly commit to keeping inflation under control.

But such criticism ignores the problems faced by banks that did not use or deal in complex financial products.

The chiefs of major European banks such as Deutsche Bank, Barclays, and Société Générale were naturally also unanimous in their hostility.

Such tactics, in which banks are nudged, not coerced, into investing in government debt, constitute soft financial repression.

The biggest banks now account for an even larger share of the financial sector after benefiting from a government rescue, while efforts like the Dodd Frank Act to legislate more constraints on banks have been lobbied into shadows of their original selves.

Where a claim is brought by a State in such a case, the State is not acting on behalf of the injured national but rather is asserting its own right to ensure compliance with the rules of international law in respect of its nationals.

May I take it that the Committee wishes to act accordingly?

Big banks ability to extort such an arrangement stems from an implicit threat the financial sector and with it the economy s payment system would collapse if a systemically important bank were ever pushed into insolvency.

The implication is that emerging markets, while encouraging foreign banks entry, should at the same time strictly regulate such banks local lending practices.

Someone has practiced his freedom to say that Iran is acting like a source of trouble for the Middle East.

18. Decides that the Commission shall act in all matters on the basis of consensus of its members

We didn't expect the government to act in the same way as a rebel group.

Decides that the Commission shall act in all matters on the basis of consensus of its members