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IF YOU DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN A PRIVATIZED WORLD

26 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Sovereign Wealth Funds

Just keeping an eye on them. Sovereign Wealth Funds.

2013 as a milestone year of SWFs acquiring companies and assets.

According to the Sovereign Wealth Fund institute’s proprietary transaction database.

2012 Transactions amounted to US$65.09 billion a drop from 2011’s US$90,04 billion.

2013 has set a record of US$ 174.73 billion in direct sovereign Wealth Funds transactions.

They are well on the way to hit $ 7 trillion mark.

The investment strategies of SWFs is changing ,to a more direct Investment tactics from acquiring manufacturing companies to farmland in Australia.

 

See my blog;  OK LET’S ASK SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS.

OTHER NEWS.

 

Virtual reality has an unexpected new champion, as Facebook announces it has bought Oculus VR for $400 million cash and 23.1 million Facebook shares, plus another $300 million in potential bonuses. Not bad for a company that first shot to fame with a Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift headset.

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BIG DATA IS LEADING US TO CULTURAL DE-ACCELERATION.

24 Monday Mar 2014

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The most recent centuries have seen extraordinary accomplishments in improving quality of Life AND WE MUST ALL LEARN TO MANAGE WITHIN IT. 

For example: All those interested in Health will have to learn to keep up with advances in digital monitoring through wireless technologies of biological information. In doing so learn how personal feedback systems will apply to prevention rather than cure.

We hear that change is accelerating, while the pace of change is accelerating faster.

It appears to me that this is true of computational carrying capacity at a planetary level and that the two are connected, but we are also seeing cultural de-acceleration.

We are investing our energy in futuristic information technologies that are creating Big Data. Another words machines get smarter, we are getting stupider.

Breakneck development of personal technology is creating over choice, and surplus complexity. Just look at communication. We at the point of gluttony. Choosing take’s time and our time is not unlimited. Businesses are engineering complexity which produces additional revenue.

Just look at what you have to agreed to before hitting the “I agree”

Or put Cooking Pot into Google and up come 8.600,000 results.

These technologies are also the basis of NSA spying, flying robots killing people, the wholesale privatisation of biological life itself.

Now don’t get me wrong I am not against the world of technology, but Big Data is going to change our world in way we cannot image.

If the key problems facing our species were to be solved, you would have to jail most of us, and there would be less and less work.

I can hear you saying so what, what’s your point.

Sorry I can not be more specific as they are in a state of developing and need your input.

Business and technologies can be the great engines that lifts billions out of poverty but they both need a new kind of values driven ethos rather than profit for profit sake.

Technology is developing in rich countries while Tigers are disappearing.

Which of the two contributors above to you think are more important to life in regard to REWARDING us.

Is Technology creating technological deserts of inequality? Is it that is replace Poverty with Big Data which is owned by the rich?

Is Technology Privatizing the World through Sovereign Wealth Funds?

So my point is that we must bring fresh thinking to our world if we are going to avoid Inequality on a scale that is all ready out of control.

You will see from previous blogs I advocate that humans are incapable of developing a system to avoid this happening due to greed.  So before we are all writing with GOOGLE Pens that need no Education lets hear what you have to say.

 

 

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HOW FRAGILE AND IMPERMANENT OUR ADVANCE CIVILIZATION REALLY IS.

21 Friday Mar 2014

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Thirty years from now the pressure on the planet’s resources will start to warning us all once again as to how fragile and impermanent our advanced civilization really is.

Why?

Because the ecological carrying capacity will be vastly DIMINISHED. The Have and the Have not’s will be on the verge of an revolution.

You don’t believe me ?  Well open your eyes and you will see that the current high levels of economic stratification are linked to the overconsumption of Resources.

You might think or say that Technological change can raise the efficiency of resources use. But it also raises both per capita resource consumption, and the scale of resource extraction. Just look at Agriculture and Industry over the past two centuries. Productivity increases in both has come from “Increased (rather the decreased) resource throughput,” despite dramatic efficiency gains, over the same period.

The Have’s who are based largely in Industrialised countries are controlled by an Elite that is paying less and less to the great unwashed who produce the wealth. ( (Called the minimum wage or living wage both of which are just above subsistence levels.)

The Haves are consuming too much in A disposable Societies, and will cause a famine among the have nots that will eventually cause the collapse of the world society. An Inequality – induced Famine that causes a loss of workers, rather than a collapse of Nature.

Of course we are told that this is not possible by the Elite, wealthy Monopolies who will be buffered from the most ‘ detrimental effects of the Environmental collapse, until to late. For them it is business as usual : just like the Roman Empire, Han, Mayan, Mauryan, Gupta Empires, not to mention the Mesopotamian Empires.

What is to be done?

We must reduce Economic inequality, so as to ensure fairer distribution of resources. To recognise that ” Business as usual” cannot be sustained. A convergence of food, water and energy crises will create the ” Perfect Storm”

Of course there are lots and lots of other problems like the growing global thirst for energy threatens water supplies. The change in population, Climate change, to mention just a few.  Any one never mind one combining with another will be a total disaster.

But the Haves have a vested interest in sustaining the current model – however doomed, for long as possible, regardless of the eventual negative outcome.

There is only one solution and that is to tap into Greed.

( see my post: A Tax at a very low rate- for example, a 0.007 percent tax/commission on all world stock transactions and stock options.)

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Prioritise Your Existence.

14 Friday Mar 2014

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If you were asked to prioritise what is essential to you very existence I am sure we would get a very wide varying priority lists.

There is no proof that existence is primarily in the experience of humankind.

Would your list look like this?

Gravity.

The Earth Magnetic Field.

The Ozone.

Fresh Air.

Unpolluted drinking water.

Food.

Fuel/ Energy

Education.

Language.

Science.  ( It by the way keeps silent only when the question is raised whether life                   is worth living)

Civilization. ( It makes us poorer because it multiplies our wishes, does not soothe,                        but kindles desires.)

Freedom.

Good Health.

Wealth.

You will note on my list there is no mention Power, Poverty, Wars,Smart Phones,Internet, Love.  I would be interested in any comments. 

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HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2060

10 Monday Mar 2014

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White minorities still trying to have English recognize as World first language .

Baby conceived naturally! Scientists stumped.

Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage.

Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.

France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica. No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!

85 – year $80.8 billion study : Diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.

Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs.

Spotted owl plague threatens northwestern United States crops and livestock.

Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be exported legally but president Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.

George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2060.

Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for a third consecutive year in Mexifornia and Floruba.

Abortion clinics ow available in every high school in the USA.

Fracking has polluted most of the UK drinking water.

THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD AID FUND ESTABLISHED IN 2018

TOPS TWO BILLION IN FUNDS DISTRIBUTED.

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A tax applied at a very low rate—for example, a 0.117 percent tax on stocks and stock-options trading, a 0.002 percent tax for bonds, and a 0.005 percent tax for futures, swaps, and other derivatives trading—would raise an estimated $50 billion a year

06 Thursday Mar 2014

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Right I know that I am not the first bright spark to suggest a financial transaction tax or commission (as I would prefer to call it ) on all stock exchange transactions.

I might however be the first to advocate that such a move be adopted by the United Nations.

By passing a peoples resolution that applies for lack of a better name a World Aid tax/commission on all World Stock Exchanges transactions (a tax applied at a very low rate—for example, a 0.117 percent tax on stocks and stock-options trading, a 0.002 percent tax for bonds, and a 0.005 percent tax for futures, swaps, and other derivatives trading—would raise an estimated $50 billion a year, not to mention Sovereign Wealth Funds acquisitions) would bring in much – needed revenue. 

Just imagine what could be archived.

No more begging for Aid when natural disaster strike.

No more IMF or World Bank debts.

No more empty words to eradicate poverty.

Just look what others are saying!

I HAVE SAID THAT THE ONLY WAY TO ACHIVE SOME EQUALITY IN THIS WORLD IS TO MAKE GREED PAY WITHOUT IT KNOWING.

The only way to achieve this is by social media pressure with a Mobil phone support campaign that galvanizes our voices to be heard.

To put that amount into perspective, $50 billion in essence pays for all of America’s veterans health services, which ran to $50.6 billion in 2012. Historical evidence and economic theory show that financial transaction taxes have the potential to raise substantial revenues without impeding the function of capital markets. By keeping constant the relative transaction costs of trading in different markets, a financial transaction tax can raise revenues without distorting market behavior.

The U.S. government is currently operating at its lowest level of revenues in more than 60 years. A 2010 report from the International Monetary Fund identifies the financial sector of the economy—particularly in the United States—as substantially undertaxed.

Business and civic leaders support a financial transaction tax

The idea of a financial transaction tax isn’t new, but the chorus singing its praises is growing every day—from leading economists such as Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman to entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates and Marc Cuban, to financial leaders the likes of John Bogle, founder of the mutual-fund giant Vanguard Group. The financial transaction tax also has the support of unions for nurses and other health care professionals and service-sector workers.

Those in the financial sector have an obvious stake in any new tax on their business. But even many within the industry are making the case for a financial transaction tax. John Fullerton, former managing director at JPMorgan and current president at the Capital Institute, has said, “A modest financial transaction tax of less than 1 percent would serve as a remarkably efficient tool to achieve needed reform.” Bogle wrote about a transaction tax in his book, Clash of the Cultures: “Taxes can be brought back into play, replacing some of the frictional costs of investing that served to moderate the speculation that prevailed in an earlier era.”

Countless other financial professionals will concede, in the anonymity of polite company, that a modest and well-crafted tax on financial transactions would have negligible impact on the dynamism of capital markets, and might even help eliminate some of the more unsavory financial practices that stack the deck in favor of big investors and encourage unhealthy risk taking that can put the whole economy, as well as taxpayers, on the hook for the costs.

A financial transaction tax helps stabilize volatile financial markets

An astounding share of transactions on financial markets today consists of high-frequency trades made on the millisecond by computers programmed with sophisticated algorithms. The computers make large-volume trades based on tiny changes in prices—fractions of a penny—and, in so doing, reap tremendous trading profits. While economic theory might suggest that this would lead to slightly more efficient financial markets, the Bank of England’s Andrew Haldane has shown that “high-frequency trading appears to have amplified” the markets’ erratic undulations.

High-frequency trading is sometimes associated with the phenomenon of “flash crashes,” where market prices fall precipitously due to a perfect storm of preprogrammed computer trading. The largest flash crash to date came on May 6, 2010, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by almost 10 percent from the opening level, and literally billions of dollars in market value disappeared from the stock market in a matter of minutes. Prices rebounded over the next week, though investors were rattled and withdrew $137 billion from the market in the subsequent months. Since then, there have been many more mini flash crashes with no sign of abatement.

Flash crashes are just one example of how financial market power and high-frequency trading combine to create unfair and destabilizing effects in financial markets. Even a conservative financial transaction tax would make these types of trades unprofitable by levying a fee for every transaction, thus eliminating this risky behavior from our markets.

A financial transaction tax incentivizes investment for real growth

The financial transaction tax by design increases transaction costs of financial trading, thereby encouraging investors to hold financial assets in their investment portfolios for longer periods of time instead of trading often. Investors who expect to hold stocks longer tend to pay more attention to the enterprise and fundamental value of the stock rather than aiming to leverage capital and computational power to exploit market loopholes for big short-term profits. A longer-term outlook for investors and more stable financial markets mean more investment, more jobs, and higher productivity in the real economy—all of which drives growth.

By changing the incentives that investors face in U.S. financial markets, a tax on financial trading will shift behavior toward investment for the long term, which is better for financing businesses and for stable sustained economic growth.

Many countries already have a financial transaction tax

The standard stalling tactic for bringing a financial transaction tax to the United States is saying that we should wait until other countries do it first. But financial transaction taxes already operate in at least 23 countries around the world—including in international financial centers such as the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Japan—and that number is about to grow.

On January 22, 2013, 11 of the European Union’s 27 member countries, including France, Germany, and Italy, indicated their intention to initiate a financial transaction tax. As the policy nears implementation, other EU countries are certain to get on board. Of the world’s major financial centers, only the United States has no tax on financial trading.[1]

As more European countries implement such a tax, the United States could easily jump on board and do the same, becoming part of a global financial transaction tax system. Globalizing the tax not only would greatly reinforce its effectiveness and benefits, but would also avoid concerns about market migration and efforts to evade regulation in financial havens. Now would be a smart time for politicians in Congress to also rethink the benefits that a tax on financial transactions could bring to our economy.

Adam S. Hersh is an Economist at the Center for American Progress. Jennifer Erickson is the Director of Competitiveness and Economic Growth at the Center.

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OK, LET’S ASK SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS.

04 Tuesday Mar 2014

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Many rich countries in the last decade have established SWFs.

Rather than using revenues for day-to day government expenditure governments have put billions of revenue from selling resources such as oil, gas into SWFs which are supposed to supplement impending Pension Crisis.

Their overall worth now stands in the Trillions of $.  Estimated to be over 6 trillion $ end of 2013.

The questions are;

1) Should there be enforceable rules for (SWF

) to make them more transparent?

2) Are they being used for strategic purposes rather than commercial ones?

3) Should they be barred from investing in ecologically damaging or dubious industries overseas?

4) Are they influencing national security and political independence?

5) How is the Money ( trillions) be eventually distributed – to whom?

6) Why are they not mentioned by the Economic gurus of the world?

7) What are their long-term objectives?

8) Can they be trusted?

9)  Is all the Money clean?

10) ARE WE BEING HOOD WINKED INTO A WORLD WHERE EVERY THING WILL BE PRIVATELY OWNED.

The answer is to date most SWFs rather than ameliorating inequalities or subsidizing the consumption of the poor are intended to finance unspecified prestige projects for ruling families.

Largest sovereign wealth funds.

 
Country Abbreviation Fund Assets US$Billion[8] Inception Origin
Norway Norway GPF Government Pension Fund – Global 838 1990 Oil
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi (emirate) Abu Dhabi
ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority 773 1976 Oil
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia SAMA SAMA Foreign Holdings 675.9 n/a Oil
China China CIC China Investment Corporation 575.2 2007 Non-commodity
China China SAFE SAFE Investment Company 567.9** 1997 Non-commodity
Kuwait Kuwait KIA Kuwait Investment Authority 410 1953 Oil
Hong Kong Hong Kong HKMA Hong Kong Monetary Authority Investment Portfolio 326.7 1993 Non-commodity
Singapore Singapore GIC Government of Singapore Investment Corporation 285 1981 Non-commodity
Singapore Singapore TH Temasek Holdings 173.3 1974 Non-commodity
Qatar Qatar QIA Qatar Investment Authority 170 2003 Oil
China China NSSF National Social Security Fund 160.6 2000 Non-commodity
Australia Australia AFF Future Fund 88.7 2004 Non-commodity
Russia Russia RNWF National Welfare Fund 88 2008 Oil
Russia Russia RRF Russian Reserve Fund 86.4 2008 Oil
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan S-K JSC Samruk-Kazyna JSC 77.5 2008 Non-commodity
Algeria Algeria RRF Revenue Regulation Fund 77.2 2000 Oil
South Korea South Korea KIC Korea Investment Corporation 72 2005 Non-commodity
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
Dubai Dubai
ICD Investment Corporation of Dubai 70 2006 Oil
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan KNF Kazakhstan National Fund 68.9 2000 Oil
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi (emirate) Abu Dhabi
IPIC International Petroleum Investment Company 65.3 1984 Oil
Libya Libya LIA Libyan Investment Authority 60 2006 Oil
Iran Iran NDF National Development Fund 58.6 1999 Oil
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi (emirate) Abu Dhabi
MDC Mubadala Development Company 55.5 2002 Oil
United States United States of America
Alaska Alaska
APF Alaska Permanent Fund[9] 49.5 1976 Oil
Malaysia Malaysia KN Khazanah Nasional 40.5 1993 Non-commodity
Brunei Brunei BIA Brunei Investment Agency 40 1983 Oil
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan SOFAZ State Oil Fund of the Republic of Azerbaijan 34.1 1999 Oil
United States United States of America
Texas Texas
PSF Permanent School Fund 30.3[10][11] 1854 Public Lands
France France SIF Strategic Investment Fund 25.5 2008 Non-commodity
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan NIC National Investment Corporation 20 2012 Oil
Republic of Ireland Ireland NPRF National Pensions Reserve Fund 19.4 2001 Non-commodity
New Zealand New Zealand NZSF New Zealand Superannuation Fund 19.3 2003 Non-commodity
Iraq Iraq DFI Development Fund for Iraq 18 2003 Oil
United States United States of America
New Mexico New Mexico
NMSIOT New Mexico State Investment Office Trust 17.3 1958 Non-commodity
Canada Canada
Alberta Alberta
AHSTF Alberta’s Heritage Savings Trust Fund[12] 16.4 1976 Oil
United States United States of America
Texas Texas
PUF Permanent University Fund 15.3[13] 1876 Public Lands
Chile Chile SESF Social and Economic Stabilization Fund 15.2 2007 Copper
East Timor Timor Leste TLPF Timor-Leste Petroleum Fund 14.6 2005 Oil & Gas
Russia Russia RDIF Russian Direct Investment Fund 13 2011 Non-commodity
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
(Federal)
EIA Emirates Investment Authority 10 2007 Oil
Oman Oman SGRF State General Reserve Fund 8.2 1980 Oil & Gas
Bahrain Bahrain MHC Mumtalakat Holding Company 7.1 2006 Oil
Peru Peru FSF Fiscal Stabilization Fund 7.1 1999 Non-commodity
Chile Chile PRF Pension Reserve Fund 7 2006 Copper
Botswana Botswana PF Pula Fund 6.9 1996 Diamonds & Minerals
Mexico Mexico ORSFM Oil Revenues Stabilization Fund of Mexico 6 2000 Oil
Oman Oman OIF Oman Investment Fund 6 2006 Oil
Italy Italy ISF Italian Strategic Fund 6 2011 Non-commodity
United States United States of America
Wyoming Wyoming
PWMTF Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund 5.6 1974 Minerals
Brazil Brazil SFB Sovereign Fund of Brazil 5.3 2008 Non-commodity
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia PIF Public Investment Fund 5.3 2008 Oil
China China CADF China-Africa Development Fund 5 2007 Non-commodity
Angola Angola FSDEA Fundo Soberano de Angola 5 2012 Oil
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad & Tobago HSF Heritage and Stabilization Fund 5 2000 Oil
United States United States of America
Alabama Alabama
ATF Alabama Trust Fund 2.5 1985 Oil & Gas
Nigeria Nigeria NSIA Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority 1.5 2011 Oil
United States United States of America
North Dakota North Dakota
NDLF North Dakota Legacy Fund 1.4 2011 Oil & Gas
Panama Panama FAP Fondo de Ahorro de Panama 1.2 2012 Non-commodity
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
Ras al-Khaimah Ra’s al Khaymah
RIA RAKIA 1.2 2005 Credits obtained via RAK Government
United States United States of America
Louisiana Louisiana
LEQTF Louisiana Education Quality Trust Fund 1.1 1986 Oil & Gas
Palestinian territories Palestine PIF Palestine Investment Fund 0.8 2003 Non-commodity
Venezuela Venezuela FEM FEM – Macroeconomic Stabilization Fund 0.8 1998 Oil
Kiribati Kiribati RERF Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund 0.6 1956 Phosphates
Vietnam Vietnam SCIC State Capital Investment Corporation 0.5 2006 Non-commodity
Gabon Gabon GSWF Sovereign Fund of the Gabonese Republic 0.4 1998 Oil
Indonesia Indonesia GIU Government Investment Unit of Indonesia
(Pusat Investasi Pemerintah (PIP))
0.3 2006 Non-commodity
Mauritania Mauritania NFHR National Fund for Hydrocarbon Reserves 0.3 2006 Oil & Gas
Australia Australia WAFF Western Australian Future Fund 0.3 2012 Minerals
Mongolia Mongolia FSF Fiscal Stability Fund 0.3 2011 Mining
Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea FFG Fund for Future Generations 0.08 2002 Oil
Ghana Ghana GPF Ghana Petroleum Funds 0.07 2011 Oil
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi (emirate) Abu Dhabi
ADIC Abu Dhabi Investment Council X 2007 Oil
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea PNGSWF Papua New Guinea Sovereign Wealth Fund X 2011 Gas
Turkmenistan Turkmenistan TSF Turkmenistan Stabilization Fund X 2008 Oil & Gas
Largest Sovereign Funds (SWFs) – 2012 Ranking
A Sovereign Wealth Fund is a state-owned investment fund comprising financial assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate or other instruments and funded by foreign exchange assets. In the latest 2012 ranking, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority tops the list at US$627 billion, followed by Norway’s Government Pension Fund–Global (US$611 billion) and China’s SAFE Investment Company (US$568 billion). Many of the world’s largest SWFs are financed via oil revenue, such as in the case of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Norway’s Government Pension Fund–Global.

Ten Largest SWFs in 2012 (in US$ Millions)

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Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are managed separately from official currency reserves. They are pools of money governments use to generate profits. Often this money is invested in foreign companies. Their assets can include balance-of-payments surpluses, official foreign currency operations, proceeds of privatizations, fiscal surpluses and/or receipts resulting from commodity exports.

They can be structured as a fund, pool or corporation. They do not include foreign currency reserve assets held by monetary authorities for the traditional balance-of-payments or monetary policy purposes, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the traditional sense, government-employee pension funds or assets managed for the benefit of individuals.

 

Data is from the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, 2012 Sovereign Wealth Fund Allocation Report.

Read more: http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global-database/economic-data/12146-largest-sovereign-wealth-funds.html#ixzz2v0ny419u
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