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I strongly agree that many contributors have over-complicated the issue. Regrettably you may have done so yourself by mentioning all these extra balance-sheet elements! I'd also note that there have certainly been cases where inter-bank lending other than short-term deposit placing/taking has been relatively common. The obvious examples include cases where "money centre" banks have taken long-dated deposits from regional institutions (such as in some states of the USA with highly restrictive banking laws subsequent to the 1929 crash, and the regional banking network in Japan between the Second World War and the mid-1980s); from time to time from 1984 onwards the issuance of long-dated FRCDs by leading UK banks; the more-or-less continual issuance of long-dated eurobonds by American (and other) banks from the 1970s to the present day, a substantial fraction of which were routinely bought by trust banks from Japan and their equivalents in other Asian economies; the inter-bank provision of revolving underwriting facilities to each other more or less continuously from the 1960s to the 1990s; and the issuance of perpetual floating rate preferred debt by banks following the acceptance of such debt as primary capital, which was sold to other banks for several years in the 1980s as if it were a perpetually revolving money market debt! Banks lending to other banks for longer-than-money-market terms is, I think, more common than you seemed to imply. RomanSpa (talk) 17:48, 8 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Cabinet is not exactly the same thing as the Government. That is why I made that arrangement. If you have any questions, say me. --B.Lameira (talk) 15:08, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello B.Lameira. Thank you for your comment, I added the name for the section. However, I feel that you are not fully appreciating that "government" can mean different things in different contexts and different countries. It can mean the total system of governing a country (i.e., including all the branches of the government), or it can refer to what is called "council of ministers" (or "administration") in other countries. In Lithuanian context, "government" means the cabinet of ministers. For example, go to the webpage of the government ([1]). Also, take care to actually read the wiki page you link to. As such, equating Government and Executive, as you did with your edit, is not acceptable: Government is part of the executive branch, but it is only one part (head of state, President, being the other one). I will give some time for discussion before reverting. No longer a penguin (talk) 17:49, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We could do a compromise, "Executive" and below it, "Cabinet" or even "Council of Ministers". What do you think about it? --B.Lameira (talk) 17:54, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

For example, Government of Portugal and Council of Ministers (Portugal), but I could give another ones. --B.Lameira (talk) 18:18, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your compromise does not address at all the issue I raised. In Lithuania, Cabinet of Ministers = Government, Government never includes the President (and you're proposing to list the President under the heading "Executive", and link that to Government.No longer a penguin (talk) 18:34, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, in that case we could remove the linking on the "Executive", in that case. --B.Lameira (talk) 19:10, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In my understanding, government has more broad definition than just the cabinet, but is not exclusively the executive branch. --B.Lameira (talk) 19:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There are some countries (e.g. Romania) where the President, while not the head of government, presides to the Council of Ministers. --B.Lameira (talk) 19:21, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What I want to mean is while the President is not part of the Government, he or she can be influential in the making decision process, as possesses powers like those of veto and dissolution of parliament. --B.Lameira (talk) 19:29, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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