Taming Speculative Capitalism

The Chilean effort to limit vulnerability to speculative outflows by limiting speculative inflows is the best known in this class of policy measures.

In the view of Iraq, the claim unit is overly speculative.

(ii) Heavy duties to be levied on speculative international financial transactions

In contrast to the other two psychological causes, speculative contagion has a natural end. A speculative bubble, sustaining itself solely by reaction to price increases, cannot go on forever.

Nonetheless, sound policies were not in themselves sufficient to ward off speculative attacks.

These, together with the external shocks triggered by the volatility of speculative capital flows, drastic terms of trade adjustments and even inflows of remittances, make the potential benefits of structural adjustment and stabilization policies difficult to attain.

In such a speculative climate, the Group conducted an audit of FACI air assets.

On the other hand, the estimate of the amount required would have to be speculative.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the leading contender in the French presidential election, recently lashed out against what he called speculative capitalism, and says he wants to moralize the financial zone created by the euro. What does Sarkozy mean by speculative capitalism?

The mere existence of such a facility would in many cases be enough to discourage speculative shocks.

In the cities, a lot of the cost of property is actually wrapped up in its speculative value.

The expected profits can be held down by allowing exchange rates to be changed before speculative pressures build.

Third, and no less important, is the speculative contagion that underlies any bubble. The current boom has seen contagion

A tax on speculative transactions was therefore necessary to stabilize financial markets in the developing countries and finance development.

The notion that the prenatal transmission of PTSD risk is adaptive is still speculative, but I find it rather poignant.

47. The fluctuations in financial markets, caused by speculative short term capital flows, threatened the healthy development of the world economy.

38. The conclusions drawn by the Special Rapporteur were speculative in nature, rather than being based on any convincing empirical evidence.

Concerned about the excessive volatility of speculative short term capital flows and the contagion effects in financial markets in times of crisis,

Since the exact ratio of men to women within the framework of the total population is unknown, these conclusions are rather speculative.

In addition, the Fund should be in a position to act as a lender of last resort to countries facing speculative attacks.

It should be added that financial capital will also lodge in those countries or places which offer and deliver greater speculative flexibility.

Their speculative frenzies ruined shareholders, customers, and the economy. Anger has come to focus on banking executives huge compensation packages, composed largely of bonuses.

Those reserves consisted of four times the volume of currency in circulation, which was important to protect against speculative attacks on the domestic currency.

China s downturn appears sudden after all, its exports had been rising at double digit rates every month this year until May. In fact, the Chinese economy s true condition had long been obscured, but has now been exposed by more stringent regulation of activities such as speculative trading of the renminbi masquerading as trade payments.

The new partnership for development has to overcome adverse factors for developing countries and eliminate obstacles such as rigid intellectual property standards, the speculative volatility of global capital, the lack of foreign investment, subsidies, the debt burden, and, above all, the absence of genuine special and differential treatment in trade negotiations for developing countries.

Reserve accumulation is also undertaken as insurance against speculative attacks and to avoid situations where resort has to be taken to highly conditional IMF lending.

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With non OPEC oil producers following suit, oil production was approaching full capacity in the first quarter of 2005, thereby heightening speculative pressures for price increases.

21. Transmutation technology was not discussed in the previous report, as it was then seen as a rather speculative and superfluous method of producing fissile materials.

(c) Strengthening trade efficiency (Trade Points)

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The tourist trade, the tourist trade

(i) Establishment of a fiscal policy to redistribute income and heavy taxation of unproductive and speculative financial capital with the reduction of taxes on basic consumer goods

In addition, there was excessive investment in speculative assets, such as real estate and stocks, which rendered the banks and finance companies vulnerable to an economic slowdown.

Priority three International trade and trade facilitation

International trade policies and multilateral trade negotiations

trade and investment trade and competition policy.

The tourist trade. Aye, the tourist trade.

The World Trade Organization is now disseminating trade profiles of economies combining trade flows with trade policy information sourced from within the World Trade Organization and other organizations and OECD has developed a prototype on trade indicators (trade plus production, employment, investment, etc.) linking standardized information from various OECD databases to trade data.

(iv) World Trade Organization (WTO) WTO Trade Facilitation

Adjustment, support to trade and trade related shocks

Trade relations, rules, practices and systems, unequal trade

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