At the moment the most worrying distortion is that the low return on bank deposits is fuelling asset-price bubbles as households seek higher returns by buying shares and property.
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The return on an average bank robbery is, frankly, rubbish.
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Portugal's central bank is forecasting a return to recession, with GDP falling by 1.3% in 2011.
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However, more Bangladeshi officials will have to step down before the World Bank is prepared to return.
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Under that decision, money deposited into a bank is the property of the bank and the depositor holds a demand note in return.
The higher lambda is, the more the central bank worries about output and the longer it is prepared to take to return inflation to target.
But Deutsche Bank's boss, Rolf Breuer, having been rebuffed by the French, is desperate to raise his bank's return on capital.
By actively managing its credit portfolio using the analytics capabilities, the bank has improved its risk-return ratio, and it is better positioned to pursue growth opportunities and to understand the contingencies when capital is in short supply.
Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS - news - people ) and the European Union has ordered the bank to sell off assets in return for the government assistance it is receiving.
"This is an extremely well-run, well-capitalized bank with 35% return on equity, " he says.
Take Bank of America's Minimum Return Eagles (the name, predictably, is a tortured acronym--Equity Appreciation Growth LinkEd Securities).
The Israel Museum has countered that it is responsible for custodianship of archaeology in the West Bank and that it would return the artefacts to their original site when the exhibition closes.
The World Bank, for instance, is only seeking enough money to allow its lending to return to pre-crisis levels.
And since the European Central Bank and the national central banks insist on lending only in return for collateral, there is a danger that banks would shortly run out of collateral of sufficient quality.
This is partly because the combined bank is obliged under European state-aid rules to shrink its balance-sheet in return for the help it has received from the government.
For his part, Kim Jin Man of Hanvit Bank is looking at the year 2000 to start making money - at least a 15% return on equity, compared with the minus 69.9% return in 1998.
So, to return to that key sentence from the speech - the governor of the Bank of England has admitted that Britain is now moving further away from re-balancing, and further away from a time when savers will get a decent return for their money.
In return, the country is imposing extensive losses on deposits over 100, 000 euros at its two biggest banks, the Bank of Cyprus and Laiki.
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