But the bravado is based partly on the hope that the oil price will rise next year, and the conviction that Venezuela's private banks will be happy to finance this year's deficit, albeit at a price.
"When I came in, Clayton, Dubilier didn't know how much money Fairchild spent every month, " says Olaf Sachau, who became vice president of finance last year.
Jaime Carrera of the Fiscal Policy Observatory, an NGO in Quito, reckons that the government will find it even harder to finance next year's deficit, which he forecasts at 2.5% of GDP.
My name is Jason Au, a third year finance student at San Francisco State University.
Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and UBS were the top three underwriters of structured finance CDOs last year.
The latest update from Thames Water on the project, which was given the go-ahead in 2007, said it hoped to finalise finance within the year.
It's the new reality: Money that was gushing into the market from abroad to finance films a year and a half ago is now just trickling in.
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Compiling a report for G20 finance ministers last year, IOSCO found those other players in the market want regulation, but doubt financial regulators have the expertise to provide it.
If you are considering investing in the public finance sector this year, but you have worries about the fiscal turmoil plaguing Washington, you may be able to put some fears aside.
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Mr Modipane was obliged to resign as provincial finance minister last year after allegations were made of his involvement in a fraud whereby 32 provincial game parks were illegally used as collateral for offshore loans.
Having built up a consumer-finance business, last year it bought Meridional, a state-owned bank in southern Brazil.
In addition there are two finance committee meetings each year and one AGM.
Before gaining appointment to the position of finance minister in June 2010, Noda served as deputy finance minister for a year.
Even if hedge funds had the appetite for such a battle, banks are much less willing than they were last year to finance them.
Twenty-nine percent of consumers are planning to carry balances on their credit cards in order to finance the holidays this year, according to American Express.
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The deal taking shape also would include tax breaks adopted by the Senate Finance Committee earlier this year, aides with knowledge of the talks said.
The full details of the new single rate 18% CGT will not be released until the publication of the 2008 Finance Bill early next year.
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Mr Barak's own political future, too, may eventually be decided by Mr Rubinstein, who has ordered an inquiry into alleged campaign-finance offences in last year's election.
He has held public office only twice, as finance minister for a year in 1993, and as head of the tax service for three months in 1998.
As a result, the DIA has been asking donors each year to finance more than half of its operating expenses, a model that is simply not sustainable.
Swan was named by banking magazine Euromoney as the world's finance minister of the year for 2011 for helping steer Australia clear of recession during the global economic meltdown.
Last year the finance director of mid-sized Yamato Mutual Life Insurance hired U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs to undertake the securitization of its 26-story main office in downtown Tokyo.
Ironically, at the beginning of April this year the finance ministry introduced a new rule under which pension funds could count life policies as investments guaranteed to return principal, thereby making it easier to invest in life insurance.
This particular affaire (the French word fittingly can mean either scandal or straightforward business) last year forced the resignation of the finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who this year has been linked by Mrs Joly to the Elf affaire.
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Now a 67-year-old finance professor at Yale University, Ibbotson thinks he's discovered the answer.
Work to change the Esplanade quarter into the Jersey International Finance Centre could start next year.
Roberto Junguito, Mr Uribe's experienced choice as finance minister, says next year's budget will be austere.
That's why the 19-year-old finance major at Baruch College got into the doorman game: access to powerful people.
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