The frozen market for mortgage-backed securities was triggering massive write-downs, i.e. destroying capital, even while the underlying mortgages were still performing.
"I want Sony to become an e-company with a capital E, " he says.
At the national level the balance of primary incomes makes gross income, i.e. before deduction of consumption of fixed capital, equal to Gross National Income (GNI).
This is mainly due to the high levels of risk and uncertainty that come with new tech: private firms would generally rather seek out low-risk, low-cost alternatives (i.e. more efficient internal processes or capital goods) than to invest time and effort into developing high-risk, initially-high cost alternatives (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells).
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People have aggregated their capital, i.e. saved money, and started and expanded businesses since time immemorial.
Capitalism is a system wherein capital, i.e. money and credit, finds the smartest and swiftest businesses or entrepreneurs.
By allowing banks to hold only 1.6 percent in capital when investing in triple-A rated securities (e.g. tranches of subprime mortgages) or lending to sovereigns (i.e. like Greece, Italy and Spain), the regulations implied an authorized leverage of 62.5 to 1.
Over the past two decades, emerging market countries and companies have increasingly looked to the private capital markets (i.e. the issuing of stocks and bonds) for larger-scale funding and away from their traditional reliance on syndicated commercial bank loans and Western government financing vehicles.
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Since the 1980's, emerging market economies, like those of China and Russia, have become increasingly sophisticated in the way they finance their respective governments and affiliated companies -- transitioning from reliance on syndicated commercial bank loans and Western government funding vehicles to the private capital markets (i.e. the issuance of stocks and bonds).
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Major investment decisions and all major capital allocation decisions are made by Warren E.
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Another year of sluggish return on investment (fell in calendar 2011 due to investments in price, e-commerce, etc.) as Wal-Mart places capital into a robust amount of international unit growth and profit dollars into lower prices.
But in an ideologically divided nation like ours, a party must expend political capital to enact major change (i.e. the Democrats loss of the House after passing health care reform and stimulus spending.) Our polling shows the Tea Party is paying a price for the debt limit battle it initiated.
Black Friday is pitched as an Event with a capital E, a tradition everyone should take part in.
One who shares that feeling is Mona Abdel Fattah Younes, an Egyptian e-learning specialist working in Doha, the capital city of Qatar.
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Another chapter is a pretend letter from Caroline Herschel (another under-appreciated female astronomer of yore) who dishes out capital letters and exclamation marks like an over-eager e-mailer.
She is the founder of Silicon Asia, an e-newsletter, consulting and events group focused on entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital.
At the same time, regulations require the banks to hold 8 percent in capital when lending to job creating small businesses and entrepreneurs, i.e. an authorized leverage of 12.5 to 1.
U.S. economic data due for release Friday includes Treasury international capital data, industrial production and capacity utilization, and quarterly e-commerce retail sales.
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First Line Capital participated in the launch of several high-profile firms: Priceline.com and E Trade Financial.
Before entering the Euro Greece was running massive interest rates, i.e. 10% (even 18% in 1994) but on joining the EZ it had access to capital at 4%.
Before Wednesday, he was largely unknown, mentioned in passing in one or two news reports as having sent an e-mail to Myers confirming that WorldCom's accounting for ordinary expenses as capital expenditures could not be justified.
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