His bank deposits. His bond purchases. Roughly 20 times in excess of his salary.

Not proceeding now with bank recapitalization and government bond purchases would similarly lead to disaster. Europe thus finds itself in a familiar bind.

BERKELEY When the European Central Bank announced its program of government bond purchases, it let financial markets know that it thoroughly disliked the idea, was not fully committed to it, and would reverse the policy as soon as it could. Indeed, the ECB proclaimed its belief that the stabilization of government bond prices brought about by such purchases would be only temporary.

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Proponents of OMT counter that the Treaty forbids only direct government bond purchases indirect purchases in secondary markets are allowed. But the decision not to prohibit indirect purchases, opponents argue, may have been intended to allow the ECB to carry out weekly repo operations, following a practice used by the Banque de France to reduce fluctuations in short term interest rates.

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XII. Contracts and purchases

Cessation of arms purchases.

One reason for this is that long term interest rates are affected not just by the actual bond purchases, but also by financial markets expectations about future monetary policy. Indeed, just one day after the ECB made its announcement and weeks before the purchases began interest rates fell by a fraction of a percentage point throughout the eurozone.

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Sometimes they're really small purchases.

Article XII. Contracts and purchases

A domestically applied and internationally coordinated tax on arms purchases , levied on all heavy conventional weapons purchases

Moreover, not forbidding indirect purchases should be seen primarily as a means of permitting banks that buy government bonds to pledge them as collateral for refinancing operations, while bearing the full investment risk. The distinction between bond purchases from the government and from the banks that bought them from the government is a phony one that gives rise to myriad possibilities for circumvention.

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