China wants to stem the flow of hot capital into an economy that is prone to sudden jumps in stocks and house prices.
Latin American business is hot, hot, hot and capital expenditures are totally under control.
But many of their firms are not positioned in the right industry, or lack the capital or hot products to drive such growth.
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Investors and venture capital firms are hot on the translation trail.
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Among his savvy moves: establishing venture capital vehicles to invest in hot private tech companies like Facebook well ahead of their initial public offering.
Cult director Wong Kar-wai was so bothered by expectations that he would take on the handover that he hot-footed it to the Argentine capital.
The dynamics are more akin to international hot money flows that can overwhelm the shallow capital markets of developing economies.
Previously, in the late 1990s, Greenspan's mistakes had temporarily made the dollar too strong, clobbering traditional manufacturing and agriculture and thereby prompting even more investor capital to rush into the already hot high-tech market.
Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad appeared to get away with a form of it during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s when he divorced his currency from the capital markets. ("Hot money" is a particular bane of contemporary go-it-aloners.) Now Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra is getting credited, even in sophisticated circles, with galvanizing his country's recovery through internal demand.
Opening up the capital account would attract a lot of hot, speculative money, just as it did in the rest of Asia in the early 1990s.
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And the sudden drying up of capital gains is a critical cause of states and municipalities being in such fiscal hot water, even though the economic downturn has been rather mild by historic standards.
First, the continuation of low dividend and capital gains taxes that had investors flocking in the high-dividend paying stocks and hot technology stocks, as an alternative to near zero money market and CD rates.
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The Banff Venture Forum this year is going to allow some of the hot new Canadian start-ups present to a group of Canadian and US VCs including Panorama Capital, Azure Capital, Chevron Technology Ventures, ConocoPhillips Technology Ventures, and NGEN Partners.
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Each capital raise might be more of a grind and take longer than when clean tech was hot and fewer investors are interested in even looking.
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Investor protection is a hot topic in Congress and regulatory circles, with heightened scrutiny on the activities of private pools of capital like hedge funds and buyout firms.
By playing hot potato with a securities position, you can take maximum advantage of the fact that a family escapes capital gain taxes on assets owned by a decedent.
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It is not so much capital flight that raises legitimate worry (although some despots remain haunted by that) as it is hot money coming in.
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