He insists that the traditional system of floor-based traders who make markets in assigned stocks and step in and put up their own capital in times of extreme volatility, like Tuesday, will stick around.
It could also coax Fannie and Freddie into operating counter-cyclically by building capital in good times and lowering requirements in falling markets.
And because Choice is a franchisor, there's precious little of its own cash going into all this: The company's 70% return on invested capital is several times that of Hilton and Marriott.
Banks could be encouraged to build up more capital during booms, which would help to avoid excessive lending, and then be allowed to reduce their capital in bad times to cushion the economy from a credit crunch.
As Mr Borio at the Bank for International Settlements points out, many of the ideas around countercyclicality (setting aside more capital in good times) and macroprudential regulation (safeguarding the stability of the whole banking system as well as of individual banks) were oven-ready, having been worked on by a coterie of central bankers, academics and regulators for a number of years.
Canada's banks face high capital requirements and a cap on their leverage, such that their assets cannot exceed 20 times their capital (a lot less than the corresponding figure for many Wall Street firms and European banks).
Less than a year later that potential loss of capital has magnified 10 times.
Might the German banks have 32 times their capital base in either assets or liabilities?
Its early funds have performed well: one is on its way to returning over ten times invested capital.
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They are deterred by a requirement that the total funds they manage not exceed 50 times their capital.
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New Orleans remains the nation's murder capital, with three times Chicago's homicide rate, and the police have to earn public trust.
Many that have a history of maintaining and raising payments to shareholders are also good candidates for capital gains during better times, too.
The assumption was that if every bank was told it could not lend - for example - more than 20 times its capital, large numbers of those banks would lend everything they could to reckless gamblers prepared to pay the highest interest rates, till gamblers and banks went bust.
But registering a business requires a minimum capital equal to nearly five times annual income per capita.
At such times in history capital markets tolerated high levels of borrowing, at least for the victorious side.
The Can-Do Early Stage Venture Capital Investment Club meets four times a year to hear pitches from prequalified entrepreneurs.
Incredibly, during the boom times governments lowered capital requirements instead of raising them.
So, in straightened times for government capital budgets, will Diageo contribute to the costs of a new line to Leven?
Even in times of limited capital spending, intelligent networks are being deployed to drive new business, revenue and consumption models, enable new customer and employee experiences, and drive efficiencies.
And the other alternative reading, that they have 32 times as much capital as they do assets makes no sense at all in a system of fractional reserve banking.
And it just so happens that the small banks with the greatest concentration of commercial real estate exposure (CRE loans equaling three times tier one capital) account for 40% of small business loans.
It shows that, in seven African countries, the return on capital for tiny enterprises is ten times that for the largest 20% of firms.
Gillian Tett, capital markets editor at the Financial Times, predicted the crisis because she was a trained anthropologist and knew how to recognize a cult when she saw one.
Recent studies of the federal death penalty system reveal that the average cost of defending a capital case are at least eight times those for defense of a non-death penalty case.
According to research by Barclays Capital, cited by the Financial Times, Lockheed derives 85% of its revenues from the U.S. government and 13% from foreign governments, making it especially sensitive to budget cuts.
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Its ratio of assets (loans and investments) to loss-absorbing equity capital is a fraction over 20 times, down from 50 times in the autumn of 2008, when it was rescued from the brink by taxpayers.
"Times Square was the capital of exhibitionism, " Sharon Zukin, a professor at Brooklyn College and author of "Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, " a book chronicling the city's gentrification in recent decades.
Fireworks lit up the skyline in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, while South Korea ushered in the new year with the traditional ringing 33 times of the 15th Century Bosingak Bell in the capital, Seoul.
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