"We think it has growth potential but it needs capital - we want to build up the value of the enterprise through time, " he said.
But it still takes on some market risk, for which it needs some capital.
Paul Miller of Friedman Billings Ramsey, an investment bank, says a government bad bank can pay more for assets than a private investor because its cost of funds is irrelevant, it needs no capital and can hold the assets to maturity.
It also needs foreign capital and expertise to help its state-owned firms pull it off.
Virgin Group, which has been frustrated in trying to set up Virgin America for the past two years, might find it easier to raise the capital it needs.
It cannot hope to raise the capital it needs to reach its development targets without encouraging both domestic and foreign investment.
It starves the chain of the investment capital it needs to be competitive.
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To translate: this portrayed Dexia as one of the strongest banks in Europe, because it meant Dexia was deemed by regulators to have more than twice the amount of capital it needs to absorb losses.
The company is planning a reorganization that includes the sale of some assets, but it also needs to raise capital.
Also, Brookfield and Hillwood, which would control Verde, would bring to the company the capital it needs to expand, he said.
Once the bank has settled on the target capital level, it needs to communicate its rationale clearly, and often, to all stakeholders.
Barclays Capital argues that it needs to raise it to India's rate of 38% if it wants to achieve annual GDP growth of 8%.
On Oct. 26, it announced it was recalculating banks' capital needs.
What our economy needs now is a stronger dollar, but foremost it needs a stable dollar so that capital can more rationally reach its most productive use, free of the investment distortions and illusions wrought by unstable money values.
"I don't think there's a magic number as to the total that we need to have in the final budget, but it does need to accommodate permanent family child credits, and it needs to accommodate broad-based capital gains relief, " said Rep. Bill Archer (R-Tex.).
If an entrepreneur wants to sell 40% of her business but the market dictates she needs to sell control to raise the capital she needs, she may be demotivated, and it may be an investment worth walking away from.
Tokyo needs to leverage the capital that it has already accrued amongst states in the region to regain some of its lost prestige.
This effort will pay enormous dividends for the country, as it will help develop the human capital America needs to lead a global economy that increasingly creates value with big data and big bandwidth.
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"In my experience, it is more common for a woman who has started a business and taken equity capital to feel like she needs to repay, when she doesn't, because it was equity -- which is the view most men take, " she says.
India is getting whacked by high oil prices and needs foreign capital to pay its obligations as it runs an account deficit.
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It needs to be replaced by a longer, slower sense of capital.
"Despite different points of view, committed partners can accomplish great things together when the world needs it, " Kerry told reporters in Russia's capital.
Aberdeen has prospered as a result of its status as Europe's oil and gas capital, but it is clear that its economy needs to develop and evolve.
That means India needs more foreign capital to finance its government obligations because it is not bringing in enough money from exports or foreign direct investment into the country.
Nowhere in Europe is there that expertise or the liquidity of life science capital markets to sustain the kind of investment that Cyclacel needs if it's to get through the hugely demanding and hugely expensive process of satisfying America's pharmaceutical regulator, the Food and Drug Administration.
Capital needs are understated in boom years and overstated in difficult times, making it more difficult to restore lending and turn around the economy.
So I want to urge all businesses with capital needs to take advantage of this temporary expensing provision, because we expect it to lower the average cost of investment by more than 75 percent for companies like Thompson Creek.
The size of Deutsche Bank's capital increase is relatively modest compared with what some bankers, analysts and investors think it needs.
By the way, it is not just the level of capital held by banks which determines how intrusive a bank regulator needs to be.
"The needs of our economy require that our financial institutions not take this new capital to hoard it but to deploy it, " Paulson said Tuesday.
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