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"SEC Open Meeting Sept. 19" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-28 15:34:52

Blog EditorBarbara BlackCharles Hartsock Professor of LawDirector. Corporate Law CenterUniv of Cincinnati College of Law• • • ResourcesAbout Securities Law Prof communicate • Find Securities Law Profs • • • Free Legal Web Sites • • The next is scheduled for Wednesday. September 19. 2007 at 10:00 a m. The agenda includes: 1. The Commission ordain consider whether to adopt jointly with the come in of Governors of the Federal Reserve System new rules under the Securities transfer Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") to apply the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act tip exceptions to the definition of "broker." In addition the Commission ordain consider whether to choose additional related rules and rule amendments including rules exempting banks from the definition of "dealer" under the transfer Act. 2. The Commission will believe whether to choose on an interim final basis a temporary command that would provide investment advisers who also are registered broker-dealers an alternative means of compliance with the principal trading restrictions of divide 206(3) of the Investment Advisers Act. The equip will also consider whether to declare an interpretive command under the Investment Advisers Act that would clarify the application of the Advisers Act to certain activities of broker-dealers.

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"Central bank" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-26 15:20:27

(private banks often being integral to the national financial system). It may also have supervisory powers to ensure that banks and other financial institutions do not behave recklessly or fraudulently. A central tip is usually headed by a governor but the titles are president chief executive and managing director respectively for the European Central tip the the "declare to pay" consists of nothing more than a declare to pay the same sum in the same currency. Many central banks are "banks" in the comprehend that they hold assets (foreign exchange gold and other financial assets) and liabilities. A central tip's primary liabilities are the currency outstanding and these liabilities are backed by the assets the bank owns. Unusually however central banks in jurisdictions with fiat currencies may "act" new money to back its own liabilities to theoretically unlimited amounts. In many countries the central bank may use another country's currency either directly (in a currency union) or indirectly by using a In the latter case local currency is directly backed by the central tip's holdings of a foreign currency in a fixed-ratio; this mechanism is used notably in ). In many countries there may be private banks that incorporate the call national. Many countries undergo state-owned banks or other quasi-government entities that have entirely displace functions such as financing imports and exports. In some countries particularly in some Communist countries the term national tip may be used to tell both the monetary authority and the leading banking entity such as the ). Both the Federal Reserve and the ECB are composed of one or more central bodies that are responsible for the main decisions about interest rates and the coat and type of change state merchandise operations and several branches to execute its policies. In the case of the Fed they are the local Federal Reserve Banks for the ECB they are the national central banks. Interest evaluate interventions are the most common and are dealt with in more dilate below. Contrary to popular perception central banks are not all-powerful and undergo limited powers to put their policies into effect. Most importantly although the perception by the public may be that the "central tip" controls some or all arouse rates and currency rates economic theory (and substantial empirical evidence) shows that it is impossible to do both at once in an change state economy. " is the most famous formulation of these limited powers and postulates that it is impossible to target monetary policy (broadly interest rates) the transfer rate (through a fixed rate) and keep remove capital movement. Since most Western economies are now considered "open" with remove capital movement this essentially means that central banks may aim arouse rates or transfer rates with credibility but not both at once. change surface when targeting interest rates most central banks have limited ability to affect the rates actually paid by private individuals and companies. change surface the US must engage in buying and selling to meet its targets. In the most famous case of policy failure. and (after making $2B himself and forcing the UK to spend over $8B defending the hit) forced it to cast aside its policy. Since then he has been a harsh critic of clumsy tip policies and argued that no one should be able to do what he in fact did. The most complex relationships are those between the By far the most visible and obvious cater of many modern central banks is to affect market interest rates; contrary to popular belief they rarely "set" rates to a fixed be. Although the mechanism differs from country to country most use a similar mechanism based on a central bank's ability to create as much as required. The mechanism to move the market towards a 'target rate' (whichever specific evaluate is used) is generally to alter money or acquire money in theoretically unlimited quantities until the targeted merchandise rate is sufficiently change state to the target. Central banks may do so by lending money to and borrowing money from (taking deposits from) a limited number of qualified banks or by purchasing and selling bonds. As an example of how this functions the and a bind of plus or minus 0.25%. Qualified banks borrow from each other within this bind but never above or below because the central tip will always lend to them at the top of the band and take deposits at the bottom of the band; in principle the capacity to acquire and alter at the extremes of the bind are unlimited. Other central banks use similar mechanisms. It is also notable that the target rates are generally short-term rates. The actual evaluate that borrowers and lenders acquire on the market will depend on (perceived) credit assay maturity and other factors. For example a central bank might set a target rate for overnight lending of 4.5% but rates for (equivalent risk) five-year bonds might be 5%. 4.75% or in cases of even below the short-term evaluate. Many central banks have one primary "headline" rate that is quoted as the "Central tip rate." In practice they ordain undergo other tools and rates that are used but only one that is rigorously targeted and enforced."The evaluate at which the central bank lends money can indeed be chosen at will by the central bank; this is the evaluate that makes the financial headlines." - .. a fiat money system set by command of the central bank. The Fed is the continue of the central-bank snake because the US dollar is the key reserve currency for international change. The global money merchandise is a US dollar market. All other currencies markets turn around the US dollar merchandise." Accordingly the US situation isn't typical of central banks in general. A typical central tip has several or monetary policy tools it can set to affect markets. Marginal Lending Rate (currently 5.00% in the Eurozone) A fixed evaluate for institutions to borrow money from the CB.(In the US this is called the ). Main Refinancing evaluate (4.00% in the Eurozone) This is the publicly visible arouse evaluate the central bank announces. It is also known as Minimum Bid evaluate and serves as a bidding floor for refinancing loans. (In the US this is called the exchanging money for the security it raises the money give. Conversely selling of securities lowers the money give. Buying of securities thus amounts to printing new money while lowering supply of the specific security. The main change state market operations are:Temporary lending of money for change surface if reserves were not a legal requirement prudence would ensure that banks would direct a certain percentage of their assets in the form of cash reserves. It is common to evaluate of commercial banks as passive receivers of deposits from their customers and for many purposes this is comfort an accurate believe. This passive view of tip activity is misleading when it comes to considering what determines the nation's money give and ascribe. Loan activity by banks plays a fundamental role in determining the money supply. The money deposited by commercial banks at the central bank is the real money in the banking system; other versions of what is commonly thought of as money are merely promises to pay real money. These promises to pay are circulatory multiples of real money. For command purposes people perceive money as the amount shown in financial transactions or amount shown in their bank accounts. But tip accounts record both credit and debits that cancel each other. Only the remaining central-bank money.

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"Notice - Meetings; Sunshine Act" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-24 15:37:57

- Committee for acquire From People Who Are alter or Severely Disabled - Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia - Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation [Federal Register: ][Notices] [summon 52130]From the Federal Register Online via GPO find [wais access gpo gov][DOCID:fr12se07-92] -----------------------------------------------------------------------FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Sunshine Act MeetingAGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Board of Governors of the Federal keep back System. TIME AND DATE: 12:00 p m.. Monday. September 17. 2007. PLACE: Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve come in Building. 20th and C Streets. N. W.. Washington. D. C. 20551. STATUS: Closed. MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 1. Personnel actions (appointments promotions assignments reassignments and salary actions) involving individual Federal keep back System employees. 2. Any items carried forward from a previously announced meeting. FOR advance INFORMATION communicate: Michelle Smith. Director or Dave Skidmore. Assistant to the Board. Office of Board Members at 202-452-2955. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: You may call 202-452-3206 beginning at approximately 5 p m two business days before the meeting for a recorded announcement of bank and tip holding affiliate applications scheduled for the meeting; or you may communicate the Board's Web site at for an electronic announcement that not only lists applications but also indicates procedural and other information about the meeting. Board of Governors of the Federal keep back System. September 7. 2007. Robert deV. Frierson,Deputy Secretary of the come in.[FR Doc. 07-4492 Filed 9-7-07; 5:02 pm]BILLING CODE 6210-01-S

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"Video: 1984 debate between Ron Paul and Charles Partee" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-18 14:49:49

This consider on the Gold Standard features Congressman Ron Paul and Charles Partee member of the Federal Reserve come in of Governors. From the Mises Institute's Capital Hill Gold Standard Conference. 11-16-1984 This is amazing. You experience after the fed went nuts gold shot up around this measure. There was the great gold selling rush in center city Philadelphia. A lot of populate got 'rich' but more got really poor. Really poor. Get a real-time be beneath the surface in the with our tools and. Also see our original real-time tracking system. -->DIGG. DIGG IT. DUGG. DIGG THIS. Digg graphics logos designs summon headers button icons scripts and other function names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.

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"Notice - Agency information collection activities; proposals ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-15 12:04:19

[Federal Register: ][Notices] [summon 51814-51821]From the Federal enter Online via GPO Access [wais access gpo gov][DOCID:fr11se07-56] -----------------------------------------------------------------------DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURYOffice of the Comptroller of the CurrencyFEDERAL keep back SYSTEMFEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATIONDEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURYOffice of Thrift Supervision Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; mention RequestAGENCIES: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Treasury; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (come in); Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); and Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS). Treasury. challenge: fit notice and communicate for comment.-----------------------------------------------------------------------SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U. S. C chapter 35) the OCC the Board the FDIC and the OTS (the ``agencies'') may not conduct or sponsor and the respondent is not required to respond to an information collection unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) hold back be. The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) of which the agencies are members has approved the agencies' publication for public comment of a proposal to increase with revision the Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income (label Report) for banks and the Thrift Financial Report (TFR) for savings associations which are currently approved collections of information. At the end of the mention period the comments and recommendations received will be analyzed to determine the extent to which the FFIEC and the agencies should modify the proposed revisions prior to giving final approval. The agencies will then refer the revisions to OMB for review and approval. DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before November 13. 2007. ADDRESSES: Interested parties are invited to submit written comments to any or all of the agencies. All comments which should have in mind to the OMB control number(s) will be shared among the agencies. OCC: Communications Division. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Public Information dwell. Mailstop 1-5. Attention: 1557-0081. 250 E Street. SW.. Washington. DC 20219. In addition comments may be sent by fax to (202) 874-4448 or by electronic send to. You may personally inspect and photocopy the comments at the OCC's Public Information Room. 250 E Street. SW.. Washington. DC 20219. For security reasons the OCC requires that visitors alter an appointment to examine comments. You may do so by calling (202) 874-5043. Upon arrival visitors will be required to present valid government-issued photo identification and submit to security screening in order to examine and photocopy comments. come in: You may refer comments which should refer to ``Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income. 7100-0036. walk 2008'' by any of the following methods: Agency Web Site: Follow the instructions for submitting comments on the.. Federal eRulemaking Portal: . Follow the instructions for submitting comments number in the affect lie of the message. FAX: 202-452-3819 or 202-452-3102. send: Jennifer J. Johnson. Secretary. come in of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 20th Street and Constitution Avenue. NW.. Washington. DC 20551. All public comments are available from the Board's Web site at as submitted unless modified for technical reasons. Accordingly your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or communicate information. Public comments may also be viewed electronically or in paper in Room MP-500 of the Board's[[Page 51815]]Martin Building (20th and C Streets. NW.) between 9 a m and 5 p m on weekdays. FDIC: You may refer comments which should have in mind to ``Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income. 3064-0052,'' by any of the following methods: .. E-mail: . Include ``Consolidated Reports of instruct and Income. 3064-0052'' in the affect line of the message. Mail: Steven F. Hanft (202-898-3907). Clearance Officer. Attn: Comments. Room MB-2088. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 550 17th Street. NW.. Washington. DC 20429. transfer Delivery: Comments may be hand-delivered to the follow station at the straighten of the 550 17th Street Building (located on F Street) on business days between 7 a m and 5 p m. Public Inspection: All comments received ordain be posted without change to including any personal information provided. Comments may be inspected at the FDIC Public Information Center. 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"New BSA/AML Exam Manual" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-09 10:00:56

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"Economic doom for SL?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-07 08:58:25

I undergo to say I don't 100% understand on first reading. I'm not an economist and some of the terms and history the writer glibly throws around are jargon I'm unfamiliar with. That doesn't mean it's not worth a construe with wikipedia or similar to transfer (it would be nice if he'd linked out but he IS writing for a economics institution so probably doesn't need to for the aim audience). This isn't the. It probably won't be the last. This bind uses the idea that SL is continuously running at a calculate deficit to suggest that a come down soft or hard is inevitable. He contrasts the way SL manages its deficit economy with the way the US (and other countries) bring home the bacon theirs - and of cover those RL economies do go and bust cycles most of the measure (the UK has had policies to forbid this for the measure 10 years there is now some suggestion that what we've done is merely delayed it we'll have to act and see) so what is being predicted makes comprehend even without fully understanding it all. This isn't tied to the current eat with Ginko/WSE etc this is a more long term "LL needs to dress its policies or approach an economic destroy cycle" warning. The fact that the compose is a former employee of the Federal keep back come in of Governors and currently works for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Los Angeles lends quite a bit of charge to his analysis too. 2. From the bind:"It is actually the small perpetual calculate deficit that reveals something quite sinister. Unlike L$ sales on the LindeX they do not designate a flow of real wealth into back up Life. Instead they are created by Linden to be wealth but no economic production was involved in creating them. These deficits become when the weekly L$ stipends Linden pays to premium residents exceed its revenues from arrive rentals and other administrative services it provides to residents. In request to finance the deficits. Linden creates new L$ and injects them into back up Life."She stipends are absolutely neglectable. No way tier payments are eaten up by stipends. Since the whole bind is based on that can we do by it as well?Or can someone inform to me where I'm do by - gratify? 3. "She stipends are absolutely neglectable. No way tier payments are eaten up by stipends."Gosh... That should be:"Stipends are absolutely neglectable. No way tier payments are eaten up by them." 4. Also:"If Linden wants to prevent this from happening and advance a shelter growing economy within back up Life it should bear on the lessons of Austrian economics to its policies: abolish restrictions on content alter the ability of residents to compel their property rights and most important tie the L$ to a real-world commodity money backed by 100% reserves."As far as I know most european countries don't undergo their currency backed by any reserves. And enforcing property rights has brought us the RIAA/MPAA vs the common man lawsuits. What is this guy talking about? 5. This article does not furnish up enough data to reach the conclusions it has and ignores a basic crucial fact: In request for a currency to be shelter the be money give needs to change in proportion to the *total* economy not just the administer occupied by the government. In the U. S this growth is provided by the central banks in the create of loans to other banks and from there to industry and commerce. We could probably lay out all day about who really benefits from this procedure but the simple difference here is that Linden Lab replaces the money supply shortfall in the economic make pass by handing it directly to consumers rather than going through the banking middlemen. The notion that Linden Lab's "deficit spending" is a significant calculate in SL's economy is a red herring. As long as they keep the total supply growing in proportion to the economy we are not going to see a dread desire the bind predicts - that would only come about if the economy were suddenly crashing anyway. 6. Seems to me desire the issues raised in the bind can be summarized in two questions: "What if a whole clump of people suddenly cashed out their Lindens?" and "What if Linden Labs decreased perhaps significantly its weekly stipend?" 7. Once again - stipend are completely insignificant.300L per week equals roughly 5 bucks per month. Every premium resident pays 9 USD per month or a little less depending on if he or she pays quarteryearly or for the whole year. But deficits can not be because of stipends alone. Also premium members are more or less pretty insignificant themselves if you be at the numbers. 8. Alan you may not know but LL has significantly reduced weekly stipends. They used to be L$500+bonuses for premiums. L$50+bonuses for basic members. Bonuses for ratings went away about 2 years ago. Basic stipends went and premiums went drink to L$400 about a year ago. Premiums drink to L$300 roughly 6 months ago. The "cashing L$ out" air is an interesting one.. how do we change out?Let's pretend I've got L$1,000,000. That's about US$4,000 furnish or act if I can change it. But. I can't "change it out" I can only change it for US$ with someone that is willing to buy them. I suppose the same is adjust on a global scale too if I have a very weak currency. Zimbabwe Dollars say. I struggle to find a buyer but at least I undergo a few billion potential purchasers. In SL. I have a few hundred thousand. Also whatever RL currency I have. I can destroy. I can theoretically act millions of US$ out of circulation in a big bonfire - I guess assemble Knox does just this. I know the tip of England does with old notes. L$. I can't do that with change surface if I set blast to the machines with the database in them. How these alter the analysis I don't experience but they do seem rather unusual when compared to other currencies. 9. The Mises piece seems to be founded on a few deeply inaccurate assumptions. The most egregious is that Linden Lab is the party buying L$ with USD. Since the whole prediction of economic change seems to be hinged on that one item. I'm not sure I can put a lot of faith in it. 10. LL has increased the money give at a large rate. That the inform of the of the conjoin. We could be heading for trouble if gdp dips. displace economic output combined with a devaluing of the linden. Small economies die when this happens. 11. Juliet wrote. "The stipends are absolutely neglectable. No way tier payments are eaten up by stipends. Since the whole bind is based on that can we ignore it as come up? Or can someone explain to me where I'm do by - please?"The bind addressed this. The air is the SL economy not LL. Tier payments are made outside of the SL economy; they go to LL which presumably uses them to pay salaries keep equipment etc. Stipends on the other transfer are money pumped into the SL economy. act a be at the economic statistics for July. LL pumped almost L$350M into SL and took out only about L$100M. That's L$250M per month being added to the SL economy's money give. believe also the fact that millions of L$ per day are sold by LL advance inflating the money supply. When populate "cash out" their L$ however they are not taking any of those L$ out of the economy--they are rather transferring them to some other avatar. The bind questions--not strongly enough. IMO--whether LL would be as willing to pay US$ for L$ should the economy continue south. So far SL has been blessed with a growth economy; what ordain come about if instead of higher and higher concurrency each month the active SL population declines while the money give continues.

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"US and India Release Text of 123 Agreement" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-05 08:55:41

Media Note Office of the Spokesman Washington. DC August 3. 2007 U. S and India channel Text of 123 Agreement The following is the text of the Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy (123 Agreement): mouth TEXT: AGREEMENT FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA CONCERNING PEACEFUL USES OF NUCLEAR ENERGY (123 AGREEMENT) The Government of India and the Government of the United States of America. hereinafter referred to as the Parties. RECOGNIZING the significance of civilian nuclear energy for meeting growing global energy demands in a cleaner and more efficient manner; DESIRING to work extensively in the beat development and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes as a means of achieving energy security on a stable reliable and predictable basis; WISHING to develop such cooperation on the basis of mutual respect for sovereignty non-interference in each other's internal affairs equality. mutual benefit reciprocity and with due respect for each other's nuclear programmes; DESIRING to establish the necessary legal framework and basis for cooperation concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy; AFFIRMING that cooperation under this Agreement is between two States possessing advanced nuclear technology both Parties having the same benefits and advantages both committed to preventing WMD proliferation; NOTING the understandings expressed in the India - U. S. Joint Statement of July 18. 2005 to enable full civil nuclear energy cooperation with India covering aspects of the associated nuclear furnish make pass; AFFIRMING their support for the objectives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its safeguards system as applicable to India and the United States of America and its importance in ensuring that international cooperation in development and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is carried out under arrangements that will not contribute to the proliferation of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; NOTING their respective commitments to safety and security of peaceful uses of nuclear energy to adequate physical protection of nuclear material and effective national export controls; MINDFUL that peaceful nuclear activities must be undertaken with a view to protecting the environment; MINDFUL of their shared commitment to preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; and DESIROUS of strengthening the strategic partnership between them; Have agreed on the following: bind 1 - DEFINITIONS For the purposes of this Agreement: (A) "By-product material" means any radioactive material (except special fissionable material) yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to the affect of producing or utilizing special fissionable material. By-product material shall not be affect to safeguards or any other create of verification under this Agreement unless it has been decided otherwise by prior mutual agreement in writing between the two Parties. (B) "Component" means a component part of equipment or other item so designated by agreement of the Parties. (C) "Conversion" means any of the normal operations in the nuclear fuel make pass preceding fuel fabrication and excluding enrichment by which uranium is transformed from one chemical form to another - for example from uranium hexafluoride (UF6) to uranium dioxide (UO2) or from uranium oxide to coat. (D) "Decommissioning" means the actions taken at the end of a facility's useful life to leave office the facility from service in the manner that provides adequate protection for the health and safety of the decommissioning workers and the general public and for the environment. These actions can range from closing down the facility and a minimal removal of nuclear material coupled with continuing maintenance and surveillance to a complete removal of residual radioactivity in excess of levels acceptable for unrestricted use of the facility and its place. (E) "Dual-Use Item" means a nuclear related item which has a technical use in both nuclear and non-nuclear applications. (F) "Equipment" means any equipment in nuclear operation including reactor. reactor compel vessel reactor fuel charging and discharging equipment. reactor hold back rods reactor compel tubes reactor primary coolant pumps. zirconium tubing equipment for furnish fabrication and any other item so designated by the Parties. (G) "High enriched uranium" means uranium enriched to twenty percent or greater in the isotope 235. (H) "Information" means any information that is not in the public domain and is transferred in any form pursuant to this Agreement and so designated and documented in hard copy or digital form by mutual agreement by the Parties that it shall be subject to this Agreement but ordain cease to be information whenever the Party transferring the information or any third party legitimately releases it into the public domain. (I) "Low enriched uranium" means uranium enriched to less than twenty percent in the isotope 235. (J) "Major critical component" means any part or assort of parts essential to the operation of a sensitive nuclear facility or heavy wet production facility. (K) "Non-nuclear material" means heavy wet or any other material suitable for use in a reactor to slow down high velocity neutrons and change magnitude the likelihood of advance fission as may be jointly designated by the allot authorities of the Parties. (L) "Nuclear material" means (1) source material and (2) special fissionable material. "obtain material" means uranium containing the mixture of isotopes occurring in nature; uranium depleted in the isotope 235; thorium; any of the foregoing in the create of metal devalue chemical increase or concentrate; any other material containing one or more of the foregoing in such concentration as the Board of Governors of the IAEA shall from measure to time cause; and such other materials as the Board of Governors of the IAEA may determine or as may be agreed by the appropriate authorities of both Parties. "Special fissionable material" means plutonium uranium-233 uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or 235 any substance containing one or more of the foregoing. and such other substances as the come in of Governors of the IAEA may determine or as may be agreed by the allot authorities of both Parties. "Special fissionable material" does not include "source material". Any determination by the come in of Governors of the IAEA under Article XX of that Agency's Statute or otherwise that amends the enumerate of materials considered to be "obtain material" or "special fissionable material" shall only have effect under this Agreement when both Parties to this Agreement undergo informed each other in writing that they accept such amendment. (M) "Peaceful purposes" consider the use of information nuclear material. equipment or components in such fields as investigate cater generation. care for agriculture and industry but do not include use in research on. or development of any nuclear explosive device.

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"Bigger Picture: The Linden Economy" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-04 08:58:26

Earlier today. I caught Eloise Pasteur's - and today's events kept from from reading the article she was referring to. As she points out. The article she refers to today was written by Matthew Beller a former employee of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and currently works for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Los Angeles. Those credentials lend quite a bit of weight to his analysis too. Some points from which are interesting: .. In the Terms of Service the L$ is defined as "a limited license alter available for acquire or remove distribution at Linden Lab's discretion and is not redeemable for monetary value from Linden Lab." By defining the L$ in such a way. Linden has granted itself the power of a central bank in managing back up Life's equivalent of a fiat currency. Linden can create as many new L$ as it wants whenever it wants and pay them or give them away at its own discretion. Also because Linden maintains a peg of about L$270=US$1 on the LindeX it gives the appearance that the L$ is as good as real-world money. Fiat currencies are subject to much criticism particularly by Austrians. However they are not criticized because they create undesirable economic distortions in and of themselves. Rather they are criticized because unlike commodity monies such as gold they can be created from nothing so are highly susceptible to artificial expansion and manipulation. This expansion as the Austrian theory of the business make pass shows us is the source of economic distortions that lead to unsustainable booms followed by inevitable busts... The Linden dollar defined as it is demonstrates that it is a instead of a - the latter being the phrase being used by stock exchanges and traders within back up Life. The latter definition means a currency within a bring home the bacon of fiction. While we can say that Second Life is a. I find it doubtful that it is a work of fiction. So I do believe that fiat currency a currency which is not tied to the determine of a conjoin of metal is much more accurate and less misleading. Who says you don't learn new stuff? It is actually the small perpetual budget deficit that reveals something quite sinister. Unlike L$ sales on the LindeX they do not designate a move of real wealth into back up Life. Instead they are created by Linden to represent wealth but no economic production was involved in creating them. These deficits occur when the weekly L$ stipends Linden pays to premium residents excel its revenues from arrive rentals and other administrative services it provides to residents. In order to finance the deficits. Linden creates new L$ and injects them into Second Life. In the United States the Federal Reserve's primary mechanism for increasing the US$ supply involves purchasing debt securities issued by the US Treasury. Linden's affect slightly differs in that it creates exactly as many L$ as are needed to make up for its budgetary shortfalls without ever issuing any debt. Every time Linden runs a deficit the L$ supply instantly increases by an equivalent amount. That is an interesting - and apparently accurate - observation. Relative Linden dollar determine too is maintained by based on a percentage change magnitude or change magnitude - this avoids 'runs' on the currency value maintaining it as shelter to forbid the determine of the Linden dollar to crash. That doesn't really impact the amount of Linden dollars in circulation as much as controls the value of the fiat currency itself. But 'printing Linden dollars at will' does affect the be of Linden dollars in circulation. Are Linden dollars ever taken out? Doubtful. To summarize it appears very likely that Second Life ordain undergo at least some form of economic recession. Depending on its severity it might prove in Linden's losing many of its customers. If Linden wants to prevent this from happening and foster a shelter growing economy within Second Life it should apply the lessons of Austrian economics to its policies: abolish restrictions on content strengthen the ability of residents to enforce their property rights and most important tie the L$ to a real-world commodity money. I evaluate everyone would accept with strengthening the ability of residents to compel property rights ( or otherwise) but I'm not sure that there are many restrictions to content to abolish - at this measure I cannot think of one. But I do most certainly agree with a tie of the L$ to a real world commodity in a tangible way. Of course that brings other problems - but in contrast perhaps those problems are easier to solve. are both correct and flawed. There are so few currencies backed by commodities today you can say the same thing for most economies in the industrialized world. All virtual economies are by their very nature inflationary. A gold conjoin in Ultima Online today isn't worth what it was when the bet was first released it is the same for Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot etc. And it wasn't the economics which have driven customers away it was boredom. Second Life is a bit different but isn't the challenge to most players the fun aspect of the game? And when the average player leaves do they attempt to change out or just drop about their money? I've found most add up players in all games let their valuables sit unused when they depart a bet. So money is taken out of circulation when players quit which should act as a answer to any inflationary impulses form Linden Labs so called deficit spending. So few currencies backed by commodities? Considering that they are all involved in regulated currency exchanges they are in a very practical way. Linking to each other links to the other values to the values of metals. The difference here is that Linden Lab denies that the Linden dollar has any value outside of SecondLife as defined in the Terms of function. I thought about the dormant Linden dollars - but then here's the thing: Those dormant Linden dollars are still part of the economy until someone logs in. I don't see someone logging out with a few hundred thousand lindens. The be of Lindens in circulation has increased rather significantly; while be cancellations may account for some of the Lindens in circulation - you can't count them twice! They were already in circulation. Therefore the number of Lindens would be closer to constant. Beller demonstrates otherwise in his article. As far as 'isn't the appeal to most players the fun aspect of the game?'. Well for players I suspect so - your question implies that in the way it was phrased. But whether or not players create the majority of residents.. that could be something different altogether. Clearly we'd be more information to say whether you're alter about the Linden circulation. But then. Linden Lab isn't noted for its transparency.

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