By buying government securities, the central bank injects cash into the banking system.

The price their countries pay is a more sclerotic and slowly growing economy.

You must move within the arteries of the system, without anyone noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centres.

Doctors recommended preventive heart surgery, and Cash underwent double bypass surgery in the same hospital.

As this capital cascades through the global financial system, it will re inflate the economy.

Our arteries can clog. Our brains can gunk up with plaque, and we can get Alzheimer's.

These tribesmen move to the settled areas for economic and security reasons, and they are the lifelines of their home villages.

This was especially true given that America s credit pipeline remained clogged, with many community and regional banks still in a precarious position.

He is the author of Open Veins of Latin America, the Memory of Fire Trilogy, Mirrors, and many other works.

Typically, such regions start occurring within the heart arteries about 2 3 decades after atheroma start developing.

In a push to reduce the cost of borrowing, the Fed purchased long term assets in the market, injecting liquidity into the financial system.

The Fed and the European Central Bank have recently pumped massive amounts of liquidity into the global financial system.

It is the lifeblood of Iraq's economy and the source of the money that the central government will need to build durable institutions.

Obama happily combines showmanship and seriousness in a way that could inject new life into the democratic system.

It acts as a key transportation artery in central Tokyo, and is often marked on Tokyo subway maps.

Here s why macroeconomic easing, by lowering interest rates or otherwise pumping money into the economy, aims to increase economic activity.

But major new injections of capital into the banking system are unlikely, owing to lingering fear from the recent financial past.

This undermines the potency of monetary policy notwithstanding bold and imaginative efforts by the Bank of Japan to inject liquidity into the economy.

To be sure, an injection of US Treasuries into the banking sector, and their subsequent conversion to renminbi, would still strengthen China s currency.

While the Fed is planning to pump more money into the US economy, the PBC is trying to reduce the amount of money in circulation in China.

It seems clear that it will not, unless the government decides to inject massive fiscal resources into YPF at the expense of other pressing needs.

In 1991, the first place on the list of leading causes of death and years lost due to disability, were diseases of the cardiovascular system (50 per cent), such as hypertension and coronary diseases.

Most scientists today subscribe to a mechanistic view of the mind we're the way we are because our brains are wired up as they are our hormones are the way they are.

Indeed, US officials, including President Barack Obama, had lobbied for the deal, which would have pumped money and jobs into the ailing American economy.

If the Chinese do not pump aid into his crumbling economy, he argues, they will face refugees pouring across the border and possible unrest.

A Euro now costs around 1.60, up from 0.90 in January 2002. Yet the Fed, in its desperation to avoid a US recession, keeps pouring more money into the system, intensifying the inflationary pressures.

Even if the DPJ fails to implement most of its reforms in short order, the fact that Japanese voters opted for change will invigorate their country s democracy.

The kind of energy and commitment to defense spending that India represents needs to be injected into Europe, because European rhetoric about playing a strategic global role remains in high gear.

In the 1970s, Galeano attained worldwide recognition for his 1971 book, The Open Veins of Latin America the same book Hugo Chávez gave Barack Obama, when they first met in 2009.

Having run out of basis points to cut from interest rates, the Fed has turned to the quantity dimension of the credit cycle injecting massive doses of liquidity into the collapsed veins of zombie consumers.

In France alone over the past 20 years, roughly 2.5 trillion euros have poured into the financial world, which suggests a total of 30 60 trillion dollars for the world economy as a whole.

In recent weeks, leading central bankers have injected over 300 billion into the financial system, lowered the rates at which they lend to private banks, and announced that such activism will continue until calm returns.

In Open Veins, Galeano wrote that Chile with its vast nitrate deposits, Brazil with its abundant rain forests, and small Venezuelan towns with their oil reserves had painful reasons to believe in the mortality of fortunes that nature bestows and imperialism usurps.

There is also a strong need for supporting long term capital flows to emerging economies to stimulate investment further, particularly in their infrastructure sectors, thereby injecting much needed additional demand into the global economy.

Land acquisition reforms are in the air, and the New Delhi rumor mills buzz with talk of an imminent government reshuffle to inject young blood into a notoriously geriatric Council of Ministers.

In part, India s slowdown paradoxically reflects the substantial fiscal and monetary stimulus that its policymakers, like those in all major emerging markets, injected into its economy in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

Expansionary monetary policy is expected to inject liquidity into the Japanese economy until inflation hits the Bank of Japan s 2 target, while expansionary fiscal policy is expected to continue until economic recovery takes hold.

In Austria, even liberals admit that an endless succession of social democratic and Christian democratic governments has clogged the political system s arteries, making it difficult for smaller parties to penetrate what is seen as a bastion of political privilege.

In early April, the BOJ announced plans to unleash the most aggressive bond buying program of all, promising to inject 1.4 trillion into the economy over the next two years in order to meet an inflation target of 2 .

Third, benchmark interest rates are already near zero, and have been for a while. This undermines the potency of monetary policy notwithstanding bold and imaginative efforts by the Bank of Japan to inject liquidity into the economy.

Such a system provides important advantages most notably, it enables the US Federal Reserve to pump money into the economy to prevent or halt a recession. But it also carries serious risks, exemplified in the trade imbalances that emerged in the 1980s.

But its basic approach remained critically flawed. First, it relied once again on trickle down economics somehow, throwing enough money at Wall Street would trickle down to Main Street, helping ordinary workers and homeowners.

Unfortunately, though, so long as some countries like China, Germany, Japan, and the oil exporters pump surplus goods into the world economy, not all countries can trim their spending to stay within their means.

The Obama administration adopted this option, following the unpopular Troubled Asset Relief Program, which injected hundreds of billions of public dollars into the banking system (most of which has been repaid).

It is at least possible maybe even likely that Apple s best long term move would be to release a hefty portion of its unused cash to its shareholders, who would then plow it back into the economy.