The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

MILAN The worst of the financial economic crisis seems to be over.

The same is true of other financial tools.

Where financing of terrorism appears to be the case, FIA has the duty to notify the Minister of Interior accordingly.

FRANKFURT Critics of the US Federal Reserve are having a field day with embarrassing revelations of its risk assessments on the eve of the financial crisis.

The low level of real interest rates does not appear to be due to the 2007 2009 financial crisis.

It may seem strange to describe the greatest financial crisis since the 1930 s as a symptom of a bigger problem.

At this point, the extent of the stimulus seems very small, and the risk of financial bubbles is increasingly worrying.

It is no accident that the current era looks so much like what followed dozens of deep financial crises in the past.

Unfortunately, so far the world seems to have learned very little from the recent financial crisis.

By contrast, non financial companies seem to take a more nuanced approach to central banks role.

Her Alan Greenspan like belief in the self correcting features of financial markets, and her reverence for the integrity of the price mechanism, do not look as well founded today as they did in the 1980 s.

In financial markets, local optimization seems to lead to excessive leverage and other forms of risk taking that undermine the stability of the system.

That sounds like a lot of money, especially in the wake of the economic and financial crisis that is still troubling large parts of the world.

On paper, it sounds like a perfect solution to the country s dire fiscal problems Greece, according to Schäuble, could export solar electricity to Germany.

The sharp one day drop in the Chinese stock market on February 27 apparently had an enduring negative effect on major stock markets around the world.

Thus, although China s total money supply seems excessive, with the M2 to GDP ratio now at about 190 , the real monetary base is actually much smaller than it appears.

NEW YORK Dark, lowering financial and economic clouds are, it seems, rolling in from every direction the eurozone, the United States, China, and elsewhere.

They view the recent collapse of the housing bubble as merely the effect of a temporary financial crisis, which governments around the world seem to be confronting aggressively.

If deregulation looks like such a bad idea now, why didn t it then?

So stock investors seem to be recognizing Brazil s economic vitality, carefully watching corporate earnings rise, and running with them.

It is almost as if governments like Britain s are attempting to manipulate the private sector into believing that the dire conditions required for an expansionary fiscal consolidation have already been met.

They start in 2006 because that seems to be the point at which some financial firms took on the risky positions that led to the crisis.

Both seem set for a long period of slow credit growth, owing both to necessary stricter financial regulation and to the fact that their economies remain significantly over leveraged.

WARSAW The seemingly never ending debate over the eurozone s fiscal problems has focused excessively on official bailouts, in particular the proposed purchase of government bonds on a massive scale by the European Central Bank.

The most likely form of the fiscal compact now seems to be a very mild agreement requiring each country to balance its budgets over the business cycle.

Greater fiscal centralization and political unification seem inevitable, but it may take time to muddle through to that outcome.

Increasing risk tolerance on the part of stock market investors, which appears to have raised long run price earnings ratios by around 20 .

The economy may look bad, but the president looks great.

WASHINGTON, DC German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble likes to criticize other governments, including that of the United States, for their irresponsible policies.

After the situation escalated threatening the striking employees to leave without getting their financial rights from the new administration, things turned to another direction in what seems like the beginning of a victory for the employees.

However, it seems that in the short run, the inverse relationship between oil prices and the dollar exists only under very specific circumstances, such as a crash in real estate prices and volatile financial markets.

CAMBRIDGE The idea that financial markets are too focused on the short term is gaining ground in the media and among academics. And now it is attracting political attention in the United States.

Housing speculators seem often to be betting on the political equilibrium that restricts the supply of housing, and on the indefinite continuation of the artificial supports started during this financial crisis.

The one conclusion that appears to hold generally is that shunning austerity does not allow one to avoid the problem of achieving both fiscal and external sustainability.

He looks suspicious.

He looks strong.

He looks young.

He seems tired.

He's looking good.

It looks delicious.

He seems miserable.

FRANKFURT Critics of the US Federal Reserve are having a field day with embarrassing revelations of its risk assessments on the eve of the financial crisis. By law, the Fed is required to publish the transcripts of its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings with a five year lag.

BERLIN In today s global financial crisis, the image of a black swan has become a symbol for the seemingly impossible that somehow occurs, turning the world upside down.

That sounds a lot like what many advanced countries have been going through, after financial crisis induced austerity plans were launched, doesn t it? Is Mandeville a genuine prophet for our times?