Buenos Aires is the capital of a country that was experiencing its own miniature Latino dot.com boom until the economy here went disastrously wrong.
Today, a herd of takins lives within a refuge at the edge of Thimpu, the sleepy capital of a country the size of Switzerland with a total population of just 700, 000.
This was clever, because much of the gold inflow was a return of flight capital into the country and did not affect the balance of payments.
Portuguese banks have been frozen out of the capital markets because of a downgrading of the country's sovereign risk, making them dependent on funding from the European Central Bank.
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The key to judging an economy's health is not its trade numbers--which, by the way, ignore critical flows of capital in and out of a country--but whether the economy is innovating and creating new wealth.
So too is the record amount of foreign capital flowing into the country and a trade deficit that's tripled in the last year.
One aspect of our prolonged trade deficit that does seem problematic is that it reflects a flow of capital to a rich country from poorer countries, the reverse of the text-book model.
The experience is akin to visiting a charming country house in the middle of a bustling capital city, a walk into a place apart.
The return of flight capital is a practical necessity for the country to keep growing.
Setting itself firmly in Mitteleuropa rather than the Balkans, the country has transformed its capital of Ljubljana into a pedestrianised, cafe-kissed oasis, where a collage of refurbished medieval, Baroque and Art Nouveau buildings shine as brightly as the shimmering waters of the Ljubljanica River.
It took four days to travel from the Afghan capital of Kabul to a Marine outpost in the southern part of the country.
Islamists who last week captured Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, tightened their grip on the southern half of the fragmented country by taking Jowhar, which had served as a temporary capital 90km (55 miles) north of Mogadishu.
Given that human capital is the most important determinant of a country's competitiveness, that women account for more than half the workforce and that more than half of university graduates are now women, the question is how to lessen this disregard of talent among the world's largest companies.
On February 2nd, the Russian Constitutional Court issued a judicial order imposing a suspension of capital-sentencing throughout the country.
Temperatures as low as -23C (-9F) and heavy snowfall this month have left the capital Kiev and most of the country under a thick frozen layer.
The move suggests that the West African country is serious about holding the ballot, despite the fact that the capital of one of the country's northern provinces remains under the control of a rebel group.
Cyprus has become the first eurozone member country to bring in capital controls to prevent a torrent of money leaving the island and credit institutions collapsing.
Cyprus needs to raise 5.8bn euros to qualify for the bailout, and has become the first eurozone member country to bring in capital controls to prevent a torrent of money leaving the island and credit institutions collapsing.
If the source of the foreign exchange is inward investors, not exporters, a country can impose capital controls to deter them.
One of the largest is how it will dismantle the capital controls it imposed in 2008 to prevent foreign creditors departing the country with a large chunk of Iceland's GDP.
Switzerland, home to two huge banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, each of which at the time of the crisis had assets at least twice the size of the country's annual GDP, is also proposing unusually strict capital rules and giving regulators a say over its banks' business decisions.
For instance, a photo of the Croatian National Theatre links to a free article on the country's capital, Zagreb.
"It's just a mark of appreciation from the good people of Nigeria, " Yar'Adua said during a state reception in the country's capital Abuja on Saturday.
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Still, Mr Gligorov's government was understandably twitchy when Abdul-Rahman Ariti, leader of Macedonia's middle-of-the-road ethnic-Albanian party, which is part of the ruling coalition, recently accompanied Arben Dzaferi, the head of the country's much fierier Albanian nationalist party, on a trip to Albania's capital, Tirana.
Rex Health Ventures is an early example of venture-capital investment funds in the country started by a community, nonprofit hospital (Rex Health Care).
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Mayors all over the country are struggling with a lack of risk capital and overstretched personnel.
Alternatively, a surplus country wanting to avoid the inflationary consequences of capital inflows might revalue its currency upward.
It has become the first eurozone member country to bring in capital controls to prevent a torrent of money leaving the island and credit institutions collapsing.
Chavez's health is a hot topic on the streets of the country's capital.
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