In areas riddled by repeated violence, any economic investment has to function as a little bit of both.
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Innovative companies and jobs are a function of investment, but when money is being devalued investment in the intellectual concepts that actually grow the economy lose out in favor of inflation hedges.
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Also, given that both GDP and employment are a direct function of capital investment, our economy will not recover strongly as long as our corporate income tax is globally uncompetitive.
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At least in part it seems to function not as an investment good but as a consumption good.
Because GDP growth is a function of private business investment, what are needed are policy changes that will attract more capital investment to Kansas.
National Investment, however, is a function of the interest rate.
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Once again, inflation is a function of sagging currency values that foster reduced investment in productive endeavors.
David Bonderman and Jim Coulter of TPG (Texas Pacific Group) ultimately made ten times their money on the investment in a sagging Continental Airlines, but their profits were clearly a function of making the flying experience infinitely better for customers.
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But once the investment bank is smaller still, will that still justify the scale of headquarters function at Gogarburn, just outside Edinburgh?
In other words, when investment banks had ample capital prior to the financial crisis in 2008, part of their role was to function as a facilitator of fixed income and equity markets, buying securities with their own capital as prices fell and selling securities with their own capital as prices rose.
In most developed markets, the primary function of an equity market is to provide price discovery, allowing successful companies to raise capital for profitable investment opportunities.
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