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Pillar 1 provides the guidelines on the valuation of assets, liabilities and capital requirements and defines the financial resources that a company needs to hold in order to be considered solvent.
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But America, if Mr Obama has his way and the Bush tax cuts for high earners are eliminated, is heading for the worst possible outcome: raising taxes on income and capital but failing to trim the country's pension liabilities and rising health-care costs.
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Next down the chain of capital, preferred equity and derivatives liabilities are eliminated.
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Capital gains tax liabilities may be realized, commissions will occur when stocks are sold and you may even have to pay fees to transfer money out of your brokerage account.
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On the liabilities side, it has 900 of borrowed money (deposits and other borrowings), and 100 of equity capital.
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Leverage is the ratio of capital to liabilities (or to assets perhaps) but it is not, never has been and never will be any ratio of assets to umm, assets, as is being claimed here.
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