But the government needs to step back, because continuing rows between the politicians and the regulators will make private investors less willing to pay for the increasing levels of investment needed in the industries the regulators oversee.
Whether either should have been at risk at all is another matter: Gordon Brown, Britain's finance minister, having beaten off commission criticism of his own spending plans, said there was growing support for a less mechanistic view of the stability pact, taking greater account of the economic cycle and of the levels of investment and public debt.
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The report recommended retaining all three markets, but said the next options "are to consider the levels of investment and improvement necessary to achieve a viable and confident future".
His insistence that it is his task, not the Strategic Rail Authority's, to determine the levels of investment that the railways require has not gone down well.
"We have some way to go to match the public and private investment levels in research and development of some of our competitor economies but we have the advantage of already being truly world class in many areas of science, " he said.
The historically low levels of investment in research and development in the electric utility industry combined with an anemic history of adopting new technologies has convinced many people that the utility industry is constitutionally incapable of innovation.
Or, you could subtract the consumption line from the 45-degree line and get a saving line that you could plot against the investment line to get the same equilibrium levels.
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Generating yield substantially above 3% in the fixed-income world requires a foray into the lower levels of investment grade credit or junk bonds.
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But, says Prof Williams, despite the huge levels of investment, it is just not possible to refer everyone with depression to mental health services.
Other authorities have embarked on a process known as stock transfer, where tenants are balloted on moving to a housing association that would be freer to finance the levels of investment required.
The EEF also urged the government to deal with the UK's "woeful" levels of research and development investment, which remain lower than levels in the US and all but one member of the European Union.
"To bring stability to the market and to provide fishermen and processors with the necessary long-term security that high levels of investment in the industry require, multi-annual management plans must be introduced for the main commercial stocks, " Mr Stevenson said.
This is one of the highest levels of research investment in the tyre industry, according to the company.
Even the notorious border region continues to attract high levels of inbound investment not least because for prudent businesses the drug wars that wage around them are a tactical headache rather than a strategic impediment.
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The economic team in the new government, led by the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, a respected former Reserve Bank governor and finance minister, has stressed the importance of raising levels of investment in India.
The company said that it made the decision reluctantly, but added that the plant was a very old facility and substantial levels of investment would be required if production was to be maintained in the long-term.
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Mr Robinson also said the SIB had "played a key role" in helping to raise infrastructure investment to record levels in Northern Ireland and that the company had to look outside the public sector for "scarce skills".
As a result, investors may want to consider reducing allocations to commodities in their investment portfolios for 2012 from the levels they had set in 2011, but I would not recommend retreating entirely from commodities as an asset class.
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Xavier Gutierrez , chief investment officer for The Meruelo Group, said the company plans to make a sizeable investment into the property, but could not yet predict what staffing levels would be.
The biggest uncertainty is how long it will take the investment banking business to return to its past levels of profitability.
It highlights the lack of business investment at UK and Scottish levels, which is necessary to sustain growth while consumer and government spending is weak.
Japan and South Korea, for instance, achieved similar rates of growth in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively, with investment levels that were ten percentage points lower than China's.
An auction that drives prices below competitive levels inexorably will do the same to investment.
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People also have become smarter about managing the risks of potential investment losses and avoiding unsustainable debt levels.
Meanwhile, the boomer era has seen falling levels of public investment in America.
Investment flow hit levels last seen in the period between the third quarter of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011.
Shareholders' interests, they complain, have taken precedence over levels of investment, noting that the company's share price has quadrupled since privatisation.
And it might help explain why Lloyds Banking Group favoured Co-op over the NBNK new banking investment vehicle - the other shortlisted contender - as the latter wouldn't have reached the levels sought by Vickers' recommendations.
All these American attacks come as China quietly increases its foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States to record levels.
Private investment too has fallen from levels seen prior to the Asian crisis in 1998.
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