The phrase "asset position" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to refer to the value or status of an entity's assets at a given time.
Example: "The company's asset position has improved significantly over the last quarter, indicating strong financial health."
Alternatives: "asset status" or "asset standing".
Yet this does not explain the slide in foreign earnings: until recently Britain, like America, was able to combine a negative asset position with positive income: its assets paid more than its liabilities cost.
This international mobility of capital implies that each country may have either a positive, negative or balanced foreign asset position.
As a result, it gave the club a net asset position of over $6 million and much-needed financial security.
The neutral simple budget balance, it is argued, only requires that the government maintain its real asset position.
"This has had the effect of skyrocketing our net asset position to a record $6.05 million, the healthiest position the Rabbitohs have ever been in.
So rather than being a vindication of the Piketty argument, what this also points to is the potential for policy action to impact the asset position of households.
Countries' net asset positions, a measure of the difference between their foreign assets and their foreign liabilities, mostly reflect cumulative current-account balances.
Unchecked, large financial firms will be able to tap bond markets for decades to come at rates just above what the government pays, regardless of the inherent risk of their asset positions.
According to the talking points, reviewed by The New York Times, the numbers cited by Zero Hedge "represent gross asset positions and thus do not reflect the benefit of collateral or other hedges and protection, and the more relevant exposure to consider is the net exposure".
Investors in those economies are likely to begin accumulating large net foreign asset positions (another throwback to the world before the first world war).Having discussed trends in the stock of capital, Mr Piketty turns to a discussion of the return on those stocks.
Overseas portfolio investors, often more sensitive to political uncertainty, might trim their Pakistani rupee asset positions, Standard Chartered economist Ahsan Chishty said.
