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.

They would like banks to be chaste, but not yet.

I felt like I was performing this elaborate act.

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

These markets needed the big banks to act as stabilizers and take the other side of bets.

We need to act like the future depends on it.

CAMBRIDGE America s long controversial Glass Steagall Act of 1933, which separated deposit taking commercial banks from securities trading investment banks in the United States, is back in the news.

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

Merging zombie banks is like drunks trying to help each other stand up.

After all, deposits from the small town banks were running off to big banks in money centers like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

If the banks are merely illiquid, the Federal Reserve in Washington is ready to act as a lender of last resort.

The creation of the system of national banks by the National Banking Act provided a strong financial network in the country.

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. The elite, whether in government or big business, seems to look after itself and no one else.

And a clash is going to take place, like on the banks of the Indus.

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

But, in today s unilateral world, other central banks would soon respond by injecting liquidity, prompting the Bank of Japan to act again.

Perhaps what forced central bankers to act creatively was the political difficulty of doing nothing after having spent billions rescuing private banks.

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

And Our Command is but a single ( Act ) , like the twinkling of an eye .

And Our Command is but a single ( Act ) , like the twinkling of an eye .

The Germans want the ECB to focus only on large systemic banks, and leave smaller savings banks (like those that invested heavily in subprime mortgages) to national authorities.

When the Fed buys Treasury bonds or other assets like mortgage backed securities, it creates reserves for the commercial banks, which the banks deposit at the Fed itself.

What the Patriot Act did was to prohibit U.S. bank, and U.S. registered foreign banks from doing any businesses with off shore facilities.

In the short run, Merrill, like the other investment banks, was allowed to double up its bets.

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

Moreover, the US should look hard at tax breaks that act like hidden spending programs.

Light passes through the glass twice, making the overall system act like a triplet lens.

Some retail banks went belly up, like Northern Rock, while others stayed afloat (Santander s UK subsidiary, for example).

Continental European countries like big banks, and therefore will never go along with the Volcker rules, he wrote.

(As the old adage has it, banks only like to lend to those who do not need money.)

So threatening to attack the world s most powerful country would seem like an act of madness.

She would therefore like to know more about the State party's plans for amending the Act.

The best that central banks can do is to buy time, albeit at an increasing cost, for other policymaking entities to get their act together.

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.

Besides, if you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure people will question your actions and ask you to act properly.

In that sense, emerging market countries central banks have learned the lesson of the 1970 s and 1980 s, when inflation ruled the world and crippled economic growth in large part because central banks did not act in a timely fashion.

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

Industries such as oil, banks, tobacco, (and companies like General Electric), along with labor, formed the New Deal Coalition.

Apparently doing something virtuous like turning off the lights makes us feel entitled to act badly afterwards.

We act as if they aren't sexual beings, just like men, which is more of a crisis.

In the following we would like to provide some more details about the provisions in this Act.

Because it normally takes a year or more for the full effects of monetary policy to be felt, central banks need to act preemptively, not reactively.

In some States individuals may be permitted to operate such systems, whereas in others only incorporated entities may act as banks or non bank financial institutions.

This model requires you to act like the king, like the person in the front of the room throwing things to the peons in the back.

Although debit cards remain far more common, banks like China Merchants Bank have been aggressive in issuing real credit cards.