He has argued that the PPIP is superior to a bad bank, but the weight of expert opinion, as he surely knows, disagrees.
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The World Bank needs to throw its weight behind the redistributive policies required to achieve economic growth and greater equity.
"The central bank has begun placing increasing weight to fears that still-high food inflation is raising risks of broader economic instability, " said Aninda Mitra, India economist at Capital Economics.
Many conservatives are perfectly OK with a politically independent central bank to keep the dollar at parity with a defined weight of gold much as the Bank of England accomplished for almost two centuries.
This promise can be verified every minute of the day by observing the current rate of exchange between the dollar and gold, and, under a classical gold standard, by exchanging currency at a national bank for gold coins of a fixed weight and purity.
It also comes just a few weeks after Evercore downgrade fellow big bank Wells Fargo to a neutral equal-weight rating.
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LBBW's chief executive, believes that the provision of liquidity by Landesbanken to their local Sparkassen should be regarded as similar to the activities of a central bank, and thus enjoy a zero risk weight.
Mr Hawkins said that before the Birchgrove store closed, staff there saw people taking large quantities of clothes, carrying three or four bags at a time, to a nearby clothes bank where they would be paid by the weight for what they brought in.
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Although Mr Weidmann has just one vote on the 23-strong governing council at the European Central Bank, his voice as Bundesbank president carries great weight among other eurozone policy makers, especially from northern countries.
Central Bank Meetings A host of central bank meetings from Sweden to Australia will carry their own weight on the markets.
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It began designing a light-weight IntelliMatch application for the Apple tablet so bank users could check on operations even while they were out away from their desks in meetings, where many senior users spend most of their days.
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The goal is to remove people who aren't "pulling their weight, " said one investment-banking head at a major bank, adding that "banks are overbuilt" in relation to the work available.
China, however, now plans to electrify 80 percent of its new cars by 2020, but Deutsche Bank's forecast conservatively assumed only 26 percent, no cuts in any cars' weight and drag, and ordinary trucks and planes.
"Stocks should continue to sag under the weight of the Fed's disappointing rate response on Tuesday and the European Central Bank's refusal to admit to the risks emanating from global economic weakness, " economist at Bear Stearns wrote in a note to investors.
There have been rumbling from a few Fed governors that the central bank was exploring new ways to stimulate the housing market, which has been the ever-present weight preventing a meaningful recovery.
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Canada has been punching well above its weight for some time, and many observers expect him to deliver the same result at the Bank of England.
An analyst at Lehman Brothers tells Forbes Global that RBS has the largest exposure to corporate risk in the U.K. and that everyone is carefully watching for signs of deterioration in the bank's credit quality, now that the previously strong U.K. economy worsens under the weight of rising taxes and a manufacturing meltdown.
In November the island's main bank, Hokkaido Takushoku, from which some 60% of Hokkaido's companies had borrowed, collapsed under the weight of bad loans made to building and property companies.
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