Gordon says the scale of future investment will depend on the health of the Chinese economy, and the enthusiasm with which Beijing enforces capital controls limiting how much money individuals can remove from the country.
Oklahoma is one of the states that still enforces capital punishment, but voters there will decide on amending the state constitution to carry out the death penalty by other means if one method is deemed invalid — as occurred in Nebraska when its sole means of execution, the electric chair, was ruled as cruel and unusual punishment by the state's Supreme Court.
The rich world is unlikely to help the emerging markets enforce their capital controls any more than it will set monetary policy with their interests at heart.
He also wants a separate protocol to protect the City of London from excessive EU regulation, including an agreement to let Britain enforce bank capital requirements that are higher than the proposed European maximum.
Nor do they seem to mind much that the same body photographs their car every time they visit central London on a working day to enforce the capital's congestion charge.Oddly, people seem to mind even less about how much information the private sector holds about them.
Iceland elected a new government in April 2013, which as one of their top priorities wanted to negotiate a debt haircut towards foreign creditors of the three failed Icelandic banks now in receivership, as part of a deal to lift the long enforced (since November 2008) capital controls.
Israel was not about to enforce Soviet-era capital controls or question the legality of those transfers.
He argues that regulators should enforce collateral and capital requirements, limit or ban certain kinds of concentrated bank lending, and even compel financial companies to develop "living wills" that specify how they are to be liquidated in an orderly way.
Banks have certainly not joined hands to fight for a globally enforced increase in capital buffers (the minimum capital they are required to hold), which could help them absorb and survive severe losses.
Modified UH-60A Blackhawk helicopters, the kind U.S. Customs uses to intercept drug runners, now patrol the skies over the capital to enforce no-fly zones.
They sent squads of vigilantes around Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, to enforce their puritanical morality, attacking video shops, kidnapping alleged prostitutes and threatening suicide-bombings should the government use force against them.
