The result is that lower interest rates favor long term projects with distant cash flows, such as ships, office buildings, and housing.
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The new company will also benefit from a larger balance sheet, giving it greater capacity to shoulder the costs of long term projects such as building nuclear power plants.
Wise capitalists do not rush to finance long-term projects that depend on public subsidy.
It can maintain strength in its core business, while at the same time invest big time in long-term projects.
However, Mr Jeffrey said politicians must not be "frightened" of large, long-term projects.
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Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
Deputy Peter Harwood said it was one of a number of long-term projects for which funding would need to be found.
That has made states and companies reluctant to start new, long-term projects until they know how much the future funding will be.
But in the case of NASA, which struggles to maintain funding for long-term projects because of short-term political juggling, it is a mixed blessing.
Mining companies have used their surging revenues to launch long-term projects and expensive takeovers, many of which could offer low returns on their sizeable investments.
One, much of the stimulus money for infrastructure is going into repaving roads instead of long-term projects such as water infrastructure, which is in woeful shape.
Also, oil and gas companies have to be careful about investing in long-term projects because if oil and gas prices fall, those projects can quickly become money-losers.
Specialists from this Consortium have participated in long-term projects funded by the UNESCO Japanese Funds-in-Trust for the Preservation of World Cultural Heritage in Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, among others.
Failure to reach agreement on the seven-year budget would mean the EU rolling over annual budgets - a method that would be more expensive and would complicate long-term projects.
Of course, the new long-term projects are not viable, whatever the financial models may indicate: artificially low rates do not create any additional savings with which to construct them.
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Larger firms remain cautious, especially about long-term projects.
"Proposing things takes courage, and proposing and supporting these sort of long-term infrastructure projects does take political courage, " he said.
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The battle for software dollars is so intense in China that researchers rarely work as a team on long-term software projects, Chinese scientists say.
The vast majority of commodity buying is by Asian governments as they are building long-term infrastructure projects like super highways, power plants, airports and new electrical grids.
The weakness of enterprises of this size in Britain is largely because the four or so dominant banks do not possess regional knowledge or the interest to engage in long-term financing projects of small businesses.
After a series of destructive tornadoes earlier this year, including one that leveled a large swath of Joplin, Missouri, FEMA announced Monday that it was not approving new long-term reconstruction projects in order to ensure it has enough money for immediate emergency funding needs.
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Those investments are liquid and they can be traded, making them a valuable part of building long-term energy infrastructure projects.
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"We know that the best way forward is the setting of strategic priorities and the long-term funding of projects, " she said.
He also helped create the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, which focuses on long-term economic reconstruction projects that create jobs and promote economic opportunity.
And the markets need to recognize that long-term creative arbitrage projects involving open or closed communities, tackling large economic challenges across the globe, are one of the few ways the surplus capital problem can be solved.
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Macri said Wednesday that the only solution is for the constantly warring governments to work together on expensive and long-term public works projects, creating huge underground drainage pipes to carry increasingly common torrential rains out to the Rio de la Plata.
Private finance projects are long term contractual arrangements between public authorities and private sector companies.
In doing so it enables scientists from developing countries to get involved in long-term and significant scientific projects that they might otherwise be precluded from.
According to the agreement signed by the two billionaires yesterday, BTG will provide financial advice, lines of credit and future long-term capital investments in projects.
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What is certain is that Haiti needs a very long-term commitment to specific projects, with an obligation to produce results, working in close collaboration with Haitians.
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