Word: inflationitis
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Any appetite overseas buyers are developing for U.S. assets could be easily spoiled, however. Asian investors are keenly aware of opportunities elsewhere. They are on the lookout for signs that Americans will not welcome foreign purchases of domestic companies-they remember the Congressional opposition to the bid by CNOOC, the...
This outcome can be avoided. The biggest risk to capital markets is protectionist policies that reduce capital flows and discourage foreign investors from accumulating dollar assets. Economics is all about engaging in transactions that make both sides better off. U.S. capital markets need Asian investors, and Asians want to sell...
Why not? Interest rates are set in two main ways. Short-term rates--like those on credit cards, home-equity loans and adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMS)--are determined mostly by the Federal Reserve. It sets them with an eye on inflation. If the Fed fears that prices are rising too...
The court's ruling said that "such frequent use" of vaffanculo and other merely vulgar expressions has created a kind of "inflation" where they have lost their original obscene and/or overtly hostile significance, even while "impoverishing language and manners." The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that "obscene" speech does not...
By encouraging IPOs, the government is also trying to manage a troublesome side effect of the country's rapid economic development. China's citizens have few investment options. Interest rates on savings deposits don't even keep pace with inflation. So many have dumped their growing savings into real estate...