"The auction came in a very difficult market environment, with the issue of US debt ceiling still unresolved", and speculation about the future of Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti, analysts at Unicredit said.
If there is a lesson for the future of Islamic finance from medieval Christian finance, it is that the roots of its decline lay in societal changes to the fragmented, feudal society of Europe of its time.
When Mr Hashimoto announced that he wanted to create a modern financial system, sceptics homed in on the future role of the finance ministry.
The government was angered by the last-minute cancellation of Monday's meeting of ECOFIN - the EU's finance ministers - and are insisting that, in future, meetings of the 27 must not be set aside for meetings of the 17.
That is because the personal accounts finance so much of the future benefits of Social Security that future deficits between continuing payroll tax revenues and continuing benefit obligations of the program are eliminated entirely.
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Senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, who staked his future as a campaign-finance crusader on a refusal to accept soft money, defeated an opponent flush with dollars from the national Republican Party.
Leasing companies had raised concerns about their inability to recover the planes, warning it could hurt future plans by Indian carriers to rent or finance the hundreds of aircraft required over the next few years.
Farmers will be the owners of Lamborghinis in the future, not the smart guys working in finance.
And when the markets are up, a fund's returns don't necessarily tell you anything about how it will perform in the future, says Zheng Sun, a finance professor at the University of California, Irvine.
As Cato Institute economist Jagadeesh Gokhale finds, the average European country would need to set aside 8 percent of its economic output each year in order to fully finance future pension obligations.
Future lawyers must also be capable of connecting law with collateral disciplines ranging from corporate finance to game theory to cognitive psychology.
But to do even better, it needs to professionalise its operations and bring in more people with strong experience in business and finance to manage the billions of dollars it seeks to attract in future.
An analysis by the Centre for Responsive Politics, a campaign-finance watchdog, found that 55 of the 75 individual donors to Restore Our Future, a superPAC supporting Mr Romney, had also given money directly to his campaign.
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Some fund managers also worry that banks they sue will restrict their allocation of bonds in future offerings, while hedge funds fret that their prime brokers will close off finance to them, says David Grais, a lawyer who works with aggrieved investors.
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Moreover, Congress never could have raided a system of private accounts to bankroll spending that it knew would never be supported by taxpayers if it had to raise taxes in real time to finance (as opposed to implicitly shoveling this burden onto future generations after present members of Congress are long retired etc.).
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In a paper that will be published soon in the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, he maintains that not only is past economic growth no guarantee of future stockmarket returns, but even future economic growth (could we but know it) is no guarantee of contemporaneous stockmarket returns except in the most transitory way.
Now we have everything we need across the broad realms of technology, science, academia, economics, government, and finance to ensure a better future.
The whole idea is to help them finance a lot of changes in their technology so they can become more competitive in the future.
"This overhaul of EU banking rules will make sure that banks in the future have enough capital, both in terms of quality and quantity, to withstand shocks, " said Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan, who led the negotiations.
The bond's real significance is that it diversifies Vietnam's sources of financing and establishes a benchmark for future capital raisings, says Le Thi Bang Tam, the vice-finance minister.
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Investors' fears regarding Greece's economic future were heightened following reports that finance officials from the euro zone are considering a delay to all or part of the second bailout package being prepared for Greece until after the country's general election, widely tipped to take place in April.
Eric Pickles reportedly told the Local Government Association's finance conference that refusing the freeze money because it would not be part of the base funding in future years was a "ludicrous argument".
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