Congress should act to lower corporate taxes to internationally competitive rates, ending the need for subsidies and returning productive capital from bureaucrats to businesses.
However, capital can earn the returns properly derived from the productive use of capital.
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Japan has not suffered in recent years for a shortage of cash, but rather for a shortage of productive uses for capital.
Ministers, she said, envisaged an easy leap to autonomy - making Scotland like "Namibia or Togo", she said - while they were apparently unable to divert productive expenditure to capital investment in schools.
As De Soto has said, one of the biggest political challenges facing developing countries is to bring the assets of the extralegal sector into a more inclusive legal property system in which they can become more productive and generate capital for their owners.
Less capital being applied to labour is, other things being equal, going to lead to less productive labour for it is capital added to labour which increases productivity.
Private investors will not commit capital to productive assets when the value of those assets is losing ground to inflation.
Proper fiscal policy is the way to keep capital in productive investment.
It began its homeward journey back from the outer reaches of gold bullion and wind farms to the productive realm of venture capital and stocks.
Just as during the Carter years, during the Bush years productive businesses suffered a capital deficit as money flowed into the dead money sector that is housing.
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Minus the math, Hayek's argument was that money would be removed from the productive economy, and capital would be wrongly allocated to overcoats based on this false demand.
Capitalism is all about capital, and no one can be economically productive without access to at least some capital.
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Asia's oft-claimed miracle economic growth consisted of two parts: productive investment that resulted from Western and Japanese capital and technology, and non-productive investment that Asians made with their own savings.
It will put some of the company's vast pool of excess capital to more productive work.
Again, tax codes that are effective revenue generators appeal to investors who might otherwise deploy their capital in more productive concepts.
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When the rewards to the productive use of labor and capital go up, more people are hired, and more investments are made.
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Put simply, the mass destruction of farming jobs allowed for the redirection of precious human capital toward more productive, higher value work.
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It forces capital into more productive, more profitable uses.
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The reason that there was stagnation in the economy was that investors had pulled an immense amount of capital out of productive uses, as they waited for the super-loose monetary policy to pass.
Even without all the necessary cuts that should occur, a reconnection of social overhead capital to direct productive activity would reinvigorate the economies of the developed world and trigger the growth so desperately needed.
Some will no doubt benefit in the near term, but the removal of limited capital from the productive parts of the economy will ultimately reduce our standard of living, drive up unemployment and make individuals more--as opposed to less--needful of charity.
It causes an allocation of more capital into non-productive assets such as gold, collectibles, land, etc.
On television, Romney argued that his extremely low capital gains rate is productive.
Yes, the wealthy, most of whom got rich by risking capital and delivering something productive to the economy, tend to save more.
As economist Robert Shapiro noted in a recent Progressive Policy Institute study, these provisions entail significant administrative and compliance costs and, more damagingly from the standpoint of economic growth, undercut markets' ability to allocate capital to its most productive uses.
But, "there's heavy pre-emption by the regulator, which prevents capital from finding its most productive use, " sighs Kotak.
Spending is a tax like any other for limited capital being removed from the productive economy in favor of government initiatives.
At this rate, India can absorb foreign capital and put it to productive use, unlike some of the Southeast Asian economies.
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