With the market for small-business capital still tight and the recovery lackluster at best, start-ups looking for capital would be wise to take a page from Joy Berry Enterprises' playbook.
In the short term, he said, the improvement and the recovery in capital spending would continue.
Instead of a quick, sharp downturn that quickly bounces into a booming recovery, capital and resources remain trapped producing things few want or bribed to remain idle.
Vicky Redwood, UK economist at Capital Economics said the recovery still faced "significant obstacles ahead, with households still experiencing falling real pay and policymakers still struggling to get bank lending to rise".
The overall external balance will depend heavily on capital flows, and the slow pace of recovery may be amplified by political uncertainty, thus pushing more capital out of the country.
Otherwise, the risk Argentina faces is that its president's political capital will be exhausted before recovery is assured.
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Capital goods spending is showing recovery activity and Detroit sells more cars.
Looking ahead, the sustainability of 10 percent export growth and the outlook for property investment are important areas to watch to assess the resilience of the recovery, Barclays Capital said on Friday.
Mr Swinney had written to Chancellor George Osborne calling on the UK government to provide an immediate targeted boost to capital investment to protect the recovery in the short term and provide the infrastructure necessary to facilitate long term economic growth.
The reality is, there is a recovery for people with capital, people who are already well-off.
Recovery requires transferring accumulated capital out of residential real estate, particularly where the bubble was most pronounced.
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The continued rebound of the PE industry became a hostage to the stabilization and recovery of the global capital markets a theme that has carried over into 2012.
Masajuro Shiokawa, Japan's finance minister, said more capital spending by firms was needed to underpin economy recovery, after data within Friday's report revealed a 12% decline in private capital investment.
"Continuing capital investment is key to supporting the recovery and to transforming public services, " said the spokesman.
This is particularly true in the utility sector, where energy companies can help fuel the economic recovery and job creation through capital spending.
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Miller, chief executive of Baltimore-based Legg Mason Funds Management, also believes that capital spending is on the road to recovery, another positive stimulus for a better economy.
Haiti is still struggling to come back from a massive earthquake that struck its densely populated capital three years ago, the slow recovery attributed largely to political dysfunction and the magnitude of the disaster.
Lastly Stiglitz worries that increased investment in capital intensive technology will contribute to a jobless recovery.
Hardesty Capital expects employment to pick up and the recovery to get on stable footing around the first quarter of 2011.
Recovery after a recession demands that capital and labor be reallocated.
Speaking to CBI delegates in the Northern Irish capital, Sir Mervyn highlighted how the economic recovery in the UK has been "noticeably slower" than in many other countries.
Those businesses will have capital to reinvest at the first sign of market recovery.
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Looking ahead, Barclays Capital said Friday that its indicators confirmed a modest recovery was in sight.
Scottish Enterprise Minister Jim Mather said signs of recovery were fragile and called for accelerated capital spending.
Combine these obstacles with a lack of access to liquidity and capital markets and you have an almost perfectly segregated recovery, a literal apartheid keeping giant swathes of the population on the outside of the rebound looking in.
That is why America is suffering a capital strike, with no real, long overdue recovery, extended unemployment to rival the depression, declining real wages and incomes, and more Americans in poverty than at any time in American history.
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This problem is made in Germany, which lacks the sustained economic recovery and investment sex appeal necessary to attract capital and bolster the battered euro.
Most of that drop will come from the expiration of temporary stimulus measures, the cessation of capital injections and the hoped-for start of economic recovery.
Alas, the U.S. Treasury Department and the IMF continue to ply the deadly requirements of devaluation and higher taxes that will impede recovery because of the resulting inflation, higher capital costs and impoverishment of workers.
"Heading into this year, we are expecting a slow recovery in the component business due to reduced capital expenditures, while competition in the set business will intensify further as demand slows and the mid- to low-end market expands, " he added.
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