Large losses in efficiency come when people are limited in their ability to finance good investment opportunities.
And the bill also will continue to improve our ability to finance infrastructure projects all across the country.
Of course that is no great grounds for comfort, given that banks' ability to finance themselves is already constrained.
By contrast, Europe, Japan, and the U.S. are now facing potential limits to their ability to finance their public debts.
Nor does the U.S. seem all that badly off, comparatively speaking, when it comes to its ability to finance a bailout.
Developed economies like the US, UK, and Spain might be put on a negative credit watch, but their ability to finance their debts remains strong.
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Both firms are helped by their ability to finance their acquisition of mortgages by issuing debt that financial markets believe to be backed by the federal government.
That has limited its ability to finance further investment in its most valuable assets, such as Cegetel, France's second-largest telephone operator, of which Vivendi owns 44% and Mannesmann 15%.
For me, the other striking thing that Mr Diamond said was that the eurozone would continue to be prone to "chronic event risk" in respect of the ability to finance themselves of the weaker peripheral economies - which many now see as including Italy and Spain, along with Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
How a company is structured, its physical locations and assets, its management, its ability to efficiently finance its operations, and its dividend policy all factor into performance.
He emphasized to me that his ability to understand finance and business has helped him be a better model and TV Host of Make me Supermodel on Bravo.
But I think we need to sit down and say what can we do to actually drive this forward and open it up to small businesses and give them the ability to get finance and grow the business.
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It has also affected confidence among mortgage borrowers, the ability of companies to borrow against property to finance investment, and the ability of property developers and speculators to repay their existing loans.
Nicole Shariat Farb, a former vice president at Goldman Sachs, says the tech industry now offers the attributes that drew her to finance: the ability to have an impact and work with smart people.
Hunting, he says, is similar to finance: They both require patience and the ability not to panic.
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In future, Hong Kong's competitiveness will be judged mainly by its ability to sell China services such as finance and management skills.
Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King, who also chairs the group of regulators from 27 countries that agreed the deal, said that the phased introduction would mean the new standards would not "hinder the ability of the global banking system to finance a recovery".
You agree to pay a certain amount of money to the bank each month, and the bank, in turn, agrees to finance your purchase, play fair and not jeopardize your ability to keep a roof over your head.
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As a result, their ability to respond may be constrained if international finance dries up and global conditions deteriorate sharply.
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The ability to get a loan is how you finance the purchase of everything from a home to a car to a college education, how stores stock their shelves, farms buy equipment, and businesses make payroll.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has always insisted its changes to student finance are fair - and that going to university depends on ability - not ability to pay.
However, amid the deep spending cuts, including slashing pension benefits and civil servant pay, euro-zone countries are slowing and investors have been concerned about the ability of nations such as Spain and Italy to finance their budget deficits in the bond markets.
And whether your holiday celebrates buying gifts in a store, buying them online, or using an American Express charge card to finance the buy, your share of the holiday loot depends on your ability to sell to consumers what they want at the lowest available delivered price.
The torrid growth set off a tug-of-war inside MCI: The sales side pursued resellers with alacrity, but the finance side worried about the resellers' ability to pay their bills.
In Roman times only the very richest would have the ability to make such a journey: the average working lifetime simply did not contain enough income to finance such a journey.
He first looked to HR and Finance as the next groups to turn to in order to reduce costs, while improving the ability to deliver those services around the world.
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We will establish a Scottish Parliamentary Commission to propose a new system of council finance to ensure that more council revenue is raised locally and that taxes relate more closely to ability to pay.
During a nearly two-hour hearing Tuesday, Blum's knowledge of offshore tax evasion captivated members of the Senate Finance Committee, and they in turn grew increasingly annoyed with the Internal Revenue Service's ability to enforce tax compliance in offshore havens.
We at the Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa, at the London School of Economics, and External Finance for Africa are involved in projects in more than 15 African countries aimed at enhancing their ability to monitor and to manage volatile international capital flows.
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