BrightSource hopes that in time its technology will prove sufficiently efficient and reliable to overcome the disadvantage of having to raise so much capital.
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How could we have brought on so much capital to build the company and still have no budget to create stable operational systems?. .
It is not so much capital flight that raises legitimate worry (although some despots remain haunted by that) as it is hot money coming in.
With the handicap of having so much capital tied up in bricks and mortar, management needs to make quality investments with their remaining capital.
Brown will be punished for realizing so much capital gains.
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With all these export-dependent economies attracting so much capital in recent years, there was never any doubt that Asian stocks would be left on the sidelines during the latest round of global sell-offs.
Poseidon will probably make out well on this investment, but the risk associated with putting so much capital into a business that is not yet commercially viable means we won't see a building boom of desalination plants in California anytime soon.
Yet each firm has sunk so much capital in plants that it is strongly tempted to use the capacity to build extra cars that fetch enough revenue to cover marginal costs in the short run, but not total costs in the long run.
Why invest so much political capital if it will not reduce the deficit?
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But the squeeze has also left its mark on the front-line services Labour has staked so much political capital on improving.
Mr Talat has invested so much political capital in his settlement talks that, if he gets no deal, even more voters may turn against him.
Rulers have invested so much political capital in the unpopular fiscal measures required for Europe's single currency that they have had nothing left over for jobs.
And, as I mentioned yesterday, one possible remedy would be to force the banks to raise so much additional capital that they would feel under enormous pressure to create new credit, so that they could earn an adequate return on this capital.
With so much uncertainty, capital-spending plans are at 35-year lows.
Another possibility is that you get so much as return of capital that your tax basis shrinks all the way to zero.
But it does raise the question of whether Mr Obama's decision to spend so much of his political capital on health care was a monumental strategic blunder.
The fact that the current big players have so much market share, capital, and the advantage of economies of scale and huge advertising budgets only makes matters worse.
And society may take other measure to rectify the unfairness of equity holders doing so much better (higher capital gains taxes or estate taxes come to mind), but this is far more likely in the case where equities actually have done much better, and it would mean giving back only a portion of their outperformance.
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With costs and capital under so much pressure, the incentive for executives to identify those who add genuine value to a bank has rocketed.
In particular, it tells a bidder how much capital its so-called Train Operating Company (TOC) would have to hold as a protection for taxpayers against the risk that in the course of operating the franchise the TOC went bust or risked going bust.
With so much turmoil in the venture capital business, from the rise of competing super-angel investors to tepid fund returns for the past 10 years to some big IPO duds this year from the likes of Facebook, the future of this economic engine of innovation is pretty murky.
More specifically, so many individuals have become wealthy in Silicon Valley over the last several years that there is much more capital available from so-called angel investors who provide seed capital for start-ups.
The authorities claim that the banks are healthier now than they were two years ago because their capital position is so much stronger.
Why is it that private equity firms, like Bain Capital, hold so much power and leverage when it comes to startup companies?
You look at the universe of stocks you want to trade and realize that trading AAPL takes up too much of your capital so you look for something more reasonable.
Unknown forever is how many Genentechs and Apples never saw and never will see the light of day thanks to Leviathan consuming so much in the way of always limited capital.
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Van Gogh, Matisse, Monet and Dali, just to name a few, I began to realize that although this museum is a unique landmark in the Mexican capital, it is so much more than just a home to show off his artwork.
But Steve Kaplan, a finance and corporate-governance expert at the University of Chicago's business school, reckons that it is best not to read too much into deals such as this one, since there is so much liquidity sloshing around America's capital markets.
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