But without large-scale funds for investment in public transport, it has been all too easy to portray it as unthinkingly anti-car.

ECONOMIST: Transport

In addition, he argues, Chinese firms might find it difficult to raise the large-scale funds they will need in the near future in the thinner-volume foreign markets.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

He said president Obama was not talking of a full-scale break-up of the banks but wanted to "separate retail deposit-taking from large-scale proprietary trading, large internal hedge funds and large internal private equity funds and I agree with him".

BBC: Treasury questions

Consequently, it is inaccurate to portray local banks as large-scale borrowers of dollar funds which are then placed locally at higher local-currency rates.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The inherent uncertainty in investing in novel technologies, coupled with the high capital costs and long time horizons, prohibits most venture capital funds from investing in large-scale clean energy projects.

FORBES: Solyndra's Failure Is No Reason To Abandon Federal Energy Innovation Policy

What is important is that, despite the protestations of the pension funds, the scale of the UK national debt - and many others - is still large and growing, and exerts a drag on growth in most economic models.

BBC: Business