In the event of substantial nex reserves being discovered, we would have a readily available export market for our excess supplies.

Instead, banks have hoarded the increase in the monetary base in the form of idle excess reserves.

We do not have a surplus of beef or sheepmeat in the Community. Those surpluses are other people's surpluses which have been imported.

The reason is simple while base money is soaring, the velocity of money has collapsed, with banks hoarding the liquidity in the form of excess reserves.

Subject EC food surpluses

6 This is due to the averaging mechanism of the minimum reserve system , which allows credit institutions to run daily liquidity deficits and surpluses and either bring forward the fulfilment of reserve requirements or postpone it until the end of the maintenance period .

Capital and reserves Capital and reserves

As a surplus saver, China has run large current account surpluses since 1994, accumulating a massive portfolio of foreign exchange reserves that now stands at almost 3.7 trillion.

Our cities, I would put to you, are stockpiles of these surplus capacities.

Germany and the eurozone core were already running large surpluses in the absence of policies to boost domestic demand, those surpluses have simply risen further.

Reserves can be broken down further into required and excess reserves .

Indeed, the credit channel is frozen and velocity has collapsed, with banks hoarding increases in base money in the form of excess reserves.

( c ) For a sending participant , the scheme shall exclude from reimbursement any amounts such a participant has used for the fulfilment of reserve requirements and any amounts representing losses the participant may have incurred in depositing excess funds in the market .

Our report to Parliament, the Colom report, could usefully serve as a basis for te intergovernmental conferences' deliberations on this aspect.

As economic theory has shown , surpluses can be generated from economic and financial exchange .

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It is not suitable for dealing with the financing and elimination of regular farm surpluses, i.e. those that arise for structural reasons.

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Minimum reserves General considerations Institutions subject to minimum reserves Determination of minimum reserves Maintenance of reserve holdings Reporting and verification of the reserve base Non compliance with minimum reserve obligations

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These represent the liabilities to participating NCBs that arose from the transfer of foreign reserve assets to the ECB .

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But such high surpluses are ultimately impossible to sustain.

Moreover, nobody in this House can accept that we can continue to produce surplus food that nobody wants or that we can continue to produce that surplus food at the expense of the environment.

The interest rate on these totally safe and liquid deposits induced the banks to maintain excess reserves at the Fed instead of lending and creating deposits to absorb the increased reserves, as they would have done before 2008.

EUR billions ) Required reserves and the reserve base

Capital and reserves Capital Paid up capital the ECB 's capital is consolidated with the capital shares of the participating NCBs Legal reserves and other reserves .

Capital and reserves Capital Paid up capital . ( The capital of the ECB is consolidated with the capital shares of the participating NCBs ) Legal reserves and other reserves .

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Investors might choose other places for their excess cash, like banks.

As a result, labor s share of the enterprise surplus rose.

What does the Commission recommend that Member Countries do with the EC food surpluses ?

The Community disposes of a number of instruments to deal with market surplues.