The lack of any monetary rule to constrain the Fed and the lack of any convertibility principle, as existed under the classical gold standard, means the Fed has a monopoly on base money (currency held by the public plus reserves), the supply of which is determined by a small group of Fed officials who presume to be able to forecast the future.
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Some have large reserves of public stocks, like the US, Japan and Germany, which can be offered to the market through loans or sales.
On a recent morning Alexei Miller, head of Russia's OAO Gazprom, the world's largest public energy company by reserves, strode toward a lectern in a standing-room-only convention hall in Amsterdam.
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"We have to recognise that there are reserves being sat on by various public bodies and in this context you have to say are those reserves best used by sitting where they are or should they be borrowed now... and built up again, " Mr Durkan said.
However, figuring out just how a country with little in the way of domestic energy reserves and rather unsustainable public spending obligations is going to pay for it all has remained a sticking point for all concerned.
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Beyond the sufficiency of existing natural gas reserves, several factors support a public policy designed to encourage export.
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The standards provide a minimum set of requirements for the public reporting of exploration results, geothermal resources, and geothermal reserves.
The problems with Social Security are now largely known--the declining number of workers versus retirees, the fiscal irresponsibility of pay-as-you-go (it's the public-sector equivalent of a private pension system with no reserves, which, of course, is illegal).
In both cases, had plans to develop state-owned nature reserves been put out to tender, and the deals been made public, each might have taken longer to wrap up, but the resultant deal would probably have been greeted as a triumph in the search for foreign investment.
This became clear when, on May 28th, the Bundesbank vehemently attacked Mr Waigel's plan to revalue the German gold reserves and mark up the profit as a way of making Germany's public finances look less dire.
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