Or when Connecticut Democrats agree on a similar bill as part of a raise-every-tax-in-sight package.
FORBES: Has Amazon Lost The South And Tea Party In Internet Tax War?
Management is expected to buy back more stock and has ample room to maintain--or even raise--its dividend (currently yielding 2%).
But capital is expensive for banks to raise - because it is the money that is (in theory) most in danger of being lost when times are hard.
From April 2013, councils will be able to keep a portion of the money they raise - a move the government says will give them more financial freedom.
Just as a woman becomes instantly less likeable when she asks for a raise -- as research indicates -- a teenage girl can lose social standing when she seems too opinionated.
If the eurozone does turn the current jaw-jaw into a war-war against the weakness of banks' balance sheets, how much capital would European banks be forced to raise - and which big banks would be forced to raise the most?
Nothing motivates the true believer -- or helps raise cash -- like seeing a candidate in the flesh.
Others, like the Pebble Watch, receive strong indications of market demand, receive large volumes of pre-orders, and raise crowd-sourced capital for initial manufacturing.
FORBES: Pre-Tail, E-Tail, to Retail: The New Commerce Pipeline
Minister Makola-Majogo told the BBC that he would raise smuggling - which had caused the revenue anomaly - at the seminar.
On Thursday evening, the Senate, by a vote of 86-8, passed an energy bill that will raise fuel-economy standards by 40% and dramatically boost production of ethanol and other biofuels.
Did the 1-cent raise in first-class postage inspire you to do so?
And by putting downward pressure on long-term bond yields, it may require the Fed to raise short-term interest rates more aggressively to cool down the economy.
Lehman was one of the biggest commercial paper dealers, and its collapse sent shock waves through the short-term debt markets, limiting the ability of companies to raise short-term cash.
For every one-percentage-point increase in inflation, the Fed can be expected to raise short-term interest rates by 0.86 of a percentage point, he says.
Just when German consumers seem to have recovered their confidence, after years of low wage-growth and worries about jobs and pensions, the government wants to raise value-added tax by three percentage points next January.
ECONOMIST: Don't get your hopes up too high about growth in the euro area
Same with the over-allocation of capital to housing 2001-2007 which ended in the bubble that got us to this frustrating spot. psperry wants Bernanke to raise short-term interest rates slightly in order to crack oil and gold and food prices so that we can start over from a worse place and lead up to another boom.
FORBES: The Open-Ended Bernanke QE3 Won't Be Open-Ended For Stock Prices And Commodities
It wants her to reopen the state budget for 2009 and sharply to raise child-welfare allowances.
My grandmother, some of you know, helped to raise me -- my grandparents did.
Critics of the agency model viewed it as an attempt to raise e-book prices.
Too much public borrowing may raise long-term interest rates, offsetting the stimulus in a milder way.
Mr Schwarzenegger said he would not raise taxes - "the people of California have been punished enough".
Fears have been growing recently that the Lehman will fail to raise much-needed capital to improve its finances.
The Tory leader's actions do, however, raise question-marks over the way in which Lords reform will take place.
Mr Stournaras has said his country could raise short-term debt or negotiate lower interest rates on its borrowings.
Exchange operators often raise so-called margin requirements at times of large market swings.
It is hard for it to raise local-content requirements quickly, since that would change the basis on which companies invested.
They are expected to say that the necessary first step is to raise high-school standards, and probably elementary-school standards too.
We can actually reduce taxes and raise revenue -- a rare win-win -- if we are willing to close loopholes.
应用推荐