Deposits will flow back into Greek banks.

But structured deposits for example, deposits whose rate of return is linked to the performance of the New York Stock Exchange are becoming increasingly popular.

Deposits in the branches of American banks in Buenos Aires were to be as safe as deposits in Miami.

Consumer spending is plummeting, as expected.

That generally transfers the deposits from the lending bank to another bank.

This is also partly why the Greek economy is affected by the tax on deposits.

Demand for consumer products typically follows an S curve.

Only consumption is lagging.

Nowadays prices of commodities are very high.

The differences in price for many other consumer goods is even larger.

There was also a commodity bubble and a private equity and hedge funds bubble.

The authorities may hope that their plan to insure bank deposits will shift deposits from the three largest banks to many smaller banks around the country, facilitating local startups access to financing.

And, on both sides of the Atlantic, that decline is likely to undermine consumer spending.

The Chinese authorities do it today, and they also set the minimum deposits banks must maintain with the central bank.

Or the deposits can be consumer paper issued by KKR Atlantic Financing, and the loans can be CDO sub prime mortgage tranches that KKR Atlantic holds in its portfolio.

Bank subsidiaries will increasingly have to finance local lending with local deposits and other local funding.

The deposits can be individuals paychecks and the loans can be to small businesses.

Indeed, the worsening banking crisis, with deposits fleeing from the eurozone periphery, is further strangling Europe s growth prospects.

When banks make loans, they create deposits for borrowers, who draw on these funds to make purchases.

OK, so maybe it is too soon for the world to start toasting America s insane consumption patterns.

Even though American pride and consumer spending would be dented, the damage to the world economy would probably not be huge.

That scare was contained when the G 7 committed to increase guarantees of bank deposits and to backstop the financial system.

But unemployment has risen even faster and further than expected. Combine this with the continued fall in housing prices, and it is understandable that consumer spending remains depressed.

Combine this with the continued fall in housing prices, and it is understandable that consumer spending remains depressed.

Though lower oil prices depress consumer prices, they should boost production and overall GDP.

Currently, the Maghreb countries suffer from soaring unemployment, poverty, and high prices for basic commodities.

To break the demand supply cycle, some Japanese have started consumer campaigns to reduce the consumption of eels.

The logic behind the separation was absolutely clear banks whose deposits were insured by the taxpayers should not be allowed to speculate with their depositors money.

The second price spike occurred when Lehman Brothers collapsed, leaving investors scared about the safety of their financial assets including bank deposits.

The pace of job creation has increased, indicators for manufacturing and services have improved, and consumption spending has been stronger than anticipated.

Diversification of production took a back seat in policy decisions as commodity prices continued to fuel rapid growth.

In 1980, financial assets stocks, bonds, and bank deposits totaled around 100 of GDP in the advanced economies.

Icelandic banks, for example, took deposits in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and swept them back to Reykjavik, leaving the host countries out of pocket.

According to the regime itself, 80 of industrial facilities have stopped, and Syria is importing even the most basic food and consumer goods.

Even if poor countries were willing to guarantee their deposits, the guarantee would mean less than that from the United States.

The member state would then be legally obliged to make deposits into that account to cover the ECB bonds coupons and principal.

So, the argument goes, a courageous Tory government that cuts spending today spares citizens that future pain. Then, feeling richer and brimming with optimism, the private sector goes on a spending spree and the economy booms.

Warnings about irrational market exuberance were largely ignored, especially as US consumer spending helped fuel strong growth across the global economy.

Electricity, water, petroleum products and many other consumer basics are seeing double digit increases, partly as a result of a decrease in government subsidies.

Then, feeling richer and brimming with optimism, the private sector goes on a spending spree and the economy booms.

Companies that store or transmit consumer data would assume greater responsibility for illegal intrusion, damage, or destruction.

Spanish banks are required to increase their deposits in proportion to their lending and set aside capital against assets in their off balance sheets.

Many small savers place their savings in so called money market funds that pay a premium over ordinary federally insured deposits.

If savers in Portuguese banks start moving their money to Germany, the ECB will recycle these euros back to Portugal through interbank deposits.

Or the deposits can be investments in D.E. Shaw s funds and the loans can be the complex derivatives that make up D.E. Shaw s portfolio.