Economy, Insure Thyself

Can We Insure against Tsunamis?

Chile s fiscal institutions insure a countercyclical budget.

Countries have accumulated large reserves in order to insure against shocks.

Asia s leaders must move to better insure their countries against the risk of economic dislocation that comes with de facto regional integration.

They might even choose to self insure the emergency risk for their employees.

Yet, despite these failings, such policies retained enough popularity to insure their continuity.

Unlike banks, though, they do not pay the government to insure their investors.

Homeowners can rest assured that they can continue to insure their property at known rates.

Anyone contemplating that prospect might choose to forego the wait to insure strategy and enroll immediately.

Many emerging markets preferred to self insure by accumulating reserves rather than borrow from the Fund.

But a quarter of my brain wonders how investors should attempt to insure against the lowest tail of the economic political distribution, and that quarter of my brain cannot see which way somebody hoping to insure against that risk should jump.

Their efforts to self insure, by, say, building up their foreign exchange reserves, perpetuate global economic imbalances.

A level of the government, no measure was introduced to insure and protect the HIV AIDS workingwoman.

Instead, Clinton chose a policy that could be called integrate and insure. While China was welcomed into the World Trade Organization (WTO), America revived its security treaty with Japan.

Today, however, emerging countries increasingly prefer to self insure by accumulating reserves (and sharing them through regional pooling arrangements).

Finding scholarships aimed at elevating the knowledge of women working with police, in order to insure that they do compete on equal footings with their male counterparts, for the executive positions available in the force.

This likely outcome mirrors the initiative for a European or global banking fund to insure against the next financial crisis.

In considering the fiscal implications of Obama s health proposals, it is important that the current legislation would still leave 25 million individuals without insurance. How much would it cost to insure them if the gross cost is now projected at 800 billion for the easier to insure 35 million?

Employers with a large number of full time employees could encourage their existing insurance companies to create the emergency policies. They might even choose to self insure the emergency risk for their employees.

b) The inability to ensure the safety of the manufacturing, registration and possession of the arms or failing to insure those requirements.

The wait to insure option could cause the number of insured individuals to decline rapidly as premiums rise for those who remain insured.

The seed vault is an attempt to insure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during large scale regional or global crises.

I would predict, if you're a representative sample, that many more of you insure your iPhones than your lives, even when you have kids.

To insure against the worst human and economic catastrophes, limits to political power must be introduced and a system of checks and balances maintained.

Today, US authorities appear willing to contemplate any measure, no matter how inflationary, to insure that none of its major banks and investment houses fails.

(d) Develop better access to all staff members and expand the coverage outside Headquarters in order to insure a truly Secretariat wide conflict resolution system

Constitutional and legal provisions that make practicing racism a crime punishable by imprisonment have great symbolic significance and help insure indeed, create and secure social peace.

In districts where a party is running two candidates, males may be asked to vote for one candidate and females for another to insure even distribution.

Retired people need life annuities contracts that offer a stable income stream for as long as they live to insure against the risk of outliving their wealth.

That wait to insure strategy makes sense if the medical condition is a chronic disease like diabetes or a condition requiring surgery, like cancer or a hernia.

The EFSF would have practically unlimited capacity to insure eurozone T bills in this way, because no country could default as long as the scheme was in operation.

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But the combination of emergency insurance and the wait to insure strategy would still be financially preferable for many individuals, and the number would grow as premiums are driven higher.

The proposed crisis mechanism would effectively insure government bond purchasers against the risk of insolvency, but it would entail deductibles that compel bondholders to assume some of the investment risk.

Thailand in particular is leading the charge to insure against the vulnerabilities of the contagion that broke out in South East Asia and spread to other parts of the world.

Upon the arrival of the MTF to the region (after the 2006 Lebanon War), the Lebanese Navy began jointly working with the navy in lead, which at the time was the Italian Navy, in order to insure a successful outcome to the assigned peace operation.

We know that the great works of European unification lay not in documents and declarations, but in innovative action designed to better the lives and insure the security of all Europeans.

Concerning the mother, she has only to be consulted on all matters related to her child or children and must insure the physical, moral and mental integrity of the minor children.

The euro is an important collective step forward, but to insure its credibility as a truly common currency, it should be treated as the embodiment of a true and whole hearted solidarity.

On December 19, the cost of credit default swaps to insure the debt of Ford was 68 percent the sum insured for five years in addition to annual payments of 5 percent.

But private insurance companies could solve that problem by creating a new type of emergency insurance that would make enrolling now unnecessary and allow individuals to take advantage of the wait to insure option.

Farmers who try to insure themselves through asset accumulation, savings and access to credit may also have trouble at the onset of a crisis, as these are often insufficient and may be easily damaged.

Yet the most portentous decisions had to be taken changes in the military and civilian leadership, and, in 1917, whether to declare unrestricted submarine warfare and thus insure the United States entry into the war.

If each nuclear power plant was obliged to insure against the risk that it imposes on society (within and outside the country of its location), it would face the true economic cost of its activities.