America's banks are propped up with public capital, but their balance-sheets are clogged with toxic assets.
As the IPO market regains steam and public capital is raised that capital must be profitably deployed.
It happens in every industry from highly regulated public capital markets to product listings on eBay and Craigslist.
This cuts bureaucracy and waste, and can ensure (though not infallibly) that public capital is efficiently allocated among the deserving.
It helped stem the crisis by injecting public capital into the biggest US banks and restoring confidence in the banking system.
"Such a program would be designed to encourage the raising of new private capital to complement public capital, " he said Friday evening.
Instead banks are lining up to repay the public capital they received during the depths of the crisis some six months ago.
Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been helping Chinese State owned enterprises consolidate and raise public capital.
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Evidently some Chinese entrepreneurs continue to believe that a listed firm's ability to raise public capital is worth having if not now, then one day.
More important was last autumn's massive injection of public capital, loans and loan guarantees into the financial system, and this spring's bank stress tests.
So you see a new market starting in Japan now that's going to try to figure out how to have public capital available for smaller companies.
Most Republicans reject that idea, too, even though the argument for more public capital is the same as the argument for more private capital each promotes growth.
We supported TARP as a way to prevent a financial meltdown, providing public capital to help regulators manage problem banks, arrange mergers, and work off bad assets.
It is encouraging that under this new framework LTCB was temporarily nationalized, and that most of the major banks have indicated their intent to apply for public capital injections.
They got public capital (much of it now repaid), short-selling bans on their shares and rescues of counterparties, such as American International Group, which the public otherwise had no interest in saving.
While we are at it, we should notify the 75 community banks here in the U.S. that, since 2002, have decided to exit the public capital markets and go private, choosing to give up their great Sarbanes-Oxley benefits.
At the center of the Gigabit Neighborhood Gateway Program is the idea that communities and their local stakeholders can drive economic opportunities through private investments that leverage public capital that will accelerate the deployment and utilization of gigabit speed networks.
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"Passenger rail service, especially services at higher and high speeds, will require new safety rules, constant public capital investment and operating subsidies, and balance with freight rail service and the rest of the national transportation system -- and currently only some of these elements are in place, " according to a GAO report.
Mr Swinney said the proposals aimed to boost public sector capital investment, improve access to finance, enhance economic security and take direct action to tackle unemployment.
It is much easier to wax populist about refugees or public health than, say, about capital goods or public procurement.
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Analysts say such a deal can serve as a quicker, less-expensive way for companies to go public and gain access to capital markets than an initial public offering.
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Raising the private finance that helps pay for many public-sector capital projects is also likely to take longer than usual.
As a group, the public lenders have capital equivalent to just 4.5% of total loans, and so cannot absorb big losses.
He had gone public with Sky Capital Enterprises in 2004, and had been clean, as far as customer complaints go, for years.
The creation of Class B super-voting shares allowed the Sulzberger-Ochs family to maintain an all-but-unchallengeable control of the company while still allowing it to tap the public markets for capital it needed for expansion.
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To put it bluntly, I think the baby boomers, and those following in their wake, aren't investing enough in either the private- or public-sector capital that they must be able to sell during their retirement to the next (smaller) generation of working people, to persuade them to keep us all in our dotage.
As a public good, human capital accumulation reduces criminality, medical care costs, and dependence on public assistance, while producing favorable citizenship qualities such as volunteering, community involvement, charitable donations, and likelihood to vote and perform public service.
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