Some portion of savings (all of it for some, some of it for all people) is about simple preservation of capital values.
The explanation must be that bank capital regulation is based on book values of capital, not market values.
But that could change as new networks of knowledge, innovation and capital meet the older values of work, trust and modestly priced living standards.
But that could change with new networks of knowledge, innovation and capital meeting the older values of work ethic, trust and modestly priced living standards.
The basic lesson of all of this: stop pretending that you can control the financial health of banks with regulation based on book values of capital.
You don't say what type of investments you currently have but on sale of these investments you may have a liability to either income or capital gains tax depending on values and your overall tax position, so you need to consider that potential liability.
We must reallocate our capital and resources to what the market now values more.
They also bolster equity values and, by encouraging international capital to look elsewhere, reduce the value of the dollar in foreign-exchange markets.
Rather, the difference reflected the more open, cosmopolitan, "Europe-friendly" feelings of people in the capital city, compared to the more traditional values of the countryside, with its nostalgia for Sweden's "separate identity".
The SEC raised serious doubts, but apparently decided recently to take no further action, concerning asset values reported to investors in Stillwater Capital Partners, a money management firm whose assets were acquired by Gerova Financial Group last year.
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Of course these figures are total company values and do not show how much capital the venture firms returned from the exits.
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Banks fail because they either run out of capital to support their ongoing operations, their asset values drop below that of their liabilities, or fraud forces regulators to step in and take over.
Job outsourcing helps American equity values go up, thereby creating investment capital here and better pensions for our retirees, not to mention better prices for countless goods, which benefits tens of millions of American consumers.
Financial companies continue to reduce leverage, but that, along with continued falling asset values, is increasing the need to raise capital.
Scott Milleison, who runs the Sports Finance Group at JP Morgan Private Bank, was recently guest on Forbes SportsMoney on the YES Network, where he discussed the new owners in sports that have come from venture capital, technology and private equity industries are increasing team values.
That makes companies such as Capital Trust and Starwood Property more vulnerable should real-estate values fall.
First, should rates climb, bond values will fall, and therefore the risk of capital loss is palpable.
These banks remain able to raise capital despite continued struggles with rising loan losses and deteriorating asset values.
Some, moving to nearly all, of capital taxation is in fact the taxation of inflation of asset values.
Some banks may have to raise capital worth between a quarter and half of their current market values (although the actual amounts may well be smaller because of mitigating steps they have already taken).
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They then use the stream of income from customers' repayments to secure debt from the capital market, even as they discount their new cars and weaken second-hand values.
But the credit meltdown that has simmered since the summer has depleted capital levels, and banks are getting stuck with mortgage-related assets, the values of which have declined sharply in the last few months.
The artificial supply drives down the price of a company's stock, and because stock values are artificially depressed and manipulated, businesses are less inclined to access the capital markets.
According to Ain, the fact that 70% of the Forbes 50 and more than 50% of the Forbes 1, 000 largest companies manage their workforce using Kronos systems and are firmly positioned as the third largest Human Capital Services provider in the world behind Oracle and SAP speaks to the success of how Kronos values drive business growth for the organization.
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Not surprisingly, this puts the onus on companies to develop talented human capital that is vigilant, aware and cognizant of pursuing a successful career at a company that aligns with their values and commitments.
It is perched uneasily between the Old World values it reveres--invest early, stay late--and the New World frenzy of venture capital that the firm would once have abhorred.
What our economy needs now is a stronger dollar, but foremost it needs a stable dollar so that capital can more rationally reach its most productive use, free of the investment distortions and illusions wrought by unstable money values.
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