On the positive side, Balance has been redesigned, with an attractive layout that is easy to navigate.
Imagine the potential for trouble monetizing this giant liability side of the balance sheet while selling the asset side to mop up the cash again.
That is, the problem is deemed to be giving banks too much discretion on the asset side of the balance sheet, when the liability side is insured.
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In any case, the time when whatever is on one side of the balance is weighed against whatever is on the other side -- whether it's your heart, your soul or your debts -- and the final reckoning is made.
The salutary effect on the Government's balance sheet will be the same, but it will appear on the other side of the balance sheet.
It is as if the debit side of the balance sheet has been cut off.
On the other side of the balance-sheet is a tendency for people to over-complain.
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On the liability side of the balance sheet, to balance that, we create reserves in the banking system.
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The current action seeks to target the asset side of the balance sheet.
But they would also harm the asset side of insurers' balance sheets, as bond prices fell.
Over the years, there has been a clear erosion in the congress, especially on the House side, in the balance stuck between necessary technology security and legitimate trade.
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Only then can we reasonably prioritize what must be sacrificed on the spending side and added to the revenue side to reach a balance that will preserve the future of the nation.
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"We'll have to look at the balance of the side now, " admitted captain Hansie Cronje.
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They put on 55 before a switch to Ollie Rayner's off-spin brought the visitors fortune and Troughton, playing defensively at a leg-side delivery, lost his balance, the ball rebounding off Hodd's pads for a stumping.
Raymond Greaves, an analyst with Merrill Lynch, has calculated that, in March, there were around euro4 billion of net prepayments on the liability side of Alstom's balance sheet for which he cannot clearly identify liquid assets.
Balance triumphed in the sense that before those regimes fell, in the West, while they were utterly out of balance on the side of the public sector everything was government, we were fairly balanced between the government, the private sector, and what I call the plural sector.
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They have games to play before then and if they can get the balance of the side right leading up to the first game, if they can win that, then they've got a really good chance of taking the series -- which would be fantastic in this professional era.
The final opportunity fell to Italy as Argentine-born Camoranesi forced another decent stop from Paston - but destiny was on New Zealand's side and, on the balance of chances if not ther amount of possession, they fully deserved to take their World Cup points tally to two following their opening draw with Slovakia.
On the bright side, the company has signed commitments for 800 new franchised units, which would help tip the balance back to the franchise side.
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There is not the slightest doubt, then, that extreme altitude tips the balance towards the home side.
The difference is that the 1979 move targeted money and, by implication, bank reserves, on the liability side of the Fed's balance sheet.
The critics assume implicitly that all the expansion on the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet is offset by monetary liabilities, which simply isn't true.
In a civil case, such as the cases here challenging the National Security Agency wiretap program, there's not been judged by the courts to be that balance on the other side.
Furthermore, even by the relatively hygienic standards of most insurers, the asset side of Lloyd's' balance-sheet is squeaky clean, while the toxic claims that brought it to its knees in the 1990s are now parcelled off to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.
These three sets of policy tools--lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying longer-term securities--have the common feature that each represents a use of the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet, that is, they all involve lending or the purchase of securities.
So I think the conventional wisdom by all sides - people who are sympathetic to the United States or not - is that the West, if it intervenes, it will intervene only to tilt the balance momentarily on the side of one group or the other but not in a decisive way.
What could there possibly be on the other side of the argument to counter-balance such a clear statement of Congressional jurisdiction over public credit?
On the negative side, the ECB is contracting its balance sheet footings in size, as of February at an annualized three month rate of 33%.
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