Long-Term Capital wasn't betting that interest rates would rise or that they would fall.
Increase the tax on short-term capital gains and eliminate stock options to limit short-termism.
Short-term capital needs--as in, assets likely to be expensed or converted to cash within one year.
After these gyrations, long-term capital gains did not hit the 1986 peak again for a decade.
Traditional oil and gas wells are a long term capital investment similar to an office building.
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Investment holding holds investments in unquoted securities and property for long-term capital appreciation and rental.
And this when valuations are in general low compared with the cost of long-term capital.
Instead, most hope that controls on short-term capital flows might make them less volatile.
Mr Eichengreen, for instance, wants emerging economies to discourage short-term capital inflows to minimise exchange-rate volatility.
The current 15% top rate on long-term capital gains is the lowest since 1933.
Long-Term Capital Management was the most dramatic example of a hedge fund going belly up.
Chile was trying to deter short-term capital inflows in the early 1990s, for example.
Because GDP expansion is driven by long-term capital investment, a fiat dollar retards real economic growth.
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General Electric came out Wednesday morning to deny rumors of a near-term capital increase.
In the same period, UBS was also hopelessly entangled with Long-Term Capital Management.
Which begs question: Why do futures traders receive the 60 percent long-term capital gains benefit?
The fiscal-cliff deal made the qualifying dividends and long-term capital gains tax rates permanent.
Sixty percent of their gain will be taxed at the 15% long-term capital gains rates.
Even with its recent slide, many Apple investors are sitting on huge long-term capital gains.
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Long-term capital gains are taxed at 15% and short term at your regular marginal tax rate.
One assumption is that you have, apart from the loss-harvesting trade, a long-term capital gain this year.
However, since VC partnerships mostly make long-term equity investments, most of their profit is long-term capital gain.
On the contrary, investors flocked to Long-Term Capital Management, which he set up after leaving Salomon.
Avoiding short-term, taxable profits, and seeking long-term capital growth is the best approach to growing private companies.
For others, the number-crunching crowd conjures up painful images of Long-Term Capital Management, the band of Ph.
In 1991 Chile imposed an implicit tax on inflows of short-term capital to reduce the aggregate inflow.
That, somewhat simplified, is how Long-Term Capital lost its shirt and nearly crashed world markets in the process.
Why delay near-term capital consumption if dollars invested and saved will, if lucky, come back reduced in value?
Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund that collapsed in 1998, was run by highly experienced traders and economists.
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Long Term Capital Management (LTCM), a New York fund, came close to precipitating a global crisis in 1998.
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