Meanwhile, financial repression lowered the cost of capital.

Information technologies are a cost effective form of capital.

Higher transactions taxes increase the cost of capital, ultimately lowering investment.

(d) Viable options for programme support cost trust funds to share the cost of the new internal justice system

The banking system remains unhealthy and fragile capital markets are dying.

Europe s banking system already has more than 1 trillion in capital.

A functioning health system would cost more than its entire government revenue!

Environmentally safe nanotechnology will come at a cost in time, money, and political capital.

According to the European Commission, creating a single European capital market would reduce the cost of equity capital for EU businesses by 0.5 and lower the cost of corporate debt financing by 0.4 .

America s financial system supports efficient capital allocation, economic development, and job creation.

But the cause of Russia s so called capital flight is a poor bank system and its dysfunctional tax system.

Distortions in key prices that favor capital intensive manufacturing need to be removed by raising the cost of land, energy, water, and capital.

After all, the main short term cost financial system disruption has already materialized in Greece banks and the stock market have been shut down, and capital controls have been imposed.

We need new capital, and new approaches to management, in the banking system.

Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.

Government stabilization of the banking system can either be international, provoking complaints by outraged taxpayers about subsidizing others, or national, but only at the cost of greatly extended regulation of capital movements.

Should a country with weaknesses in its financial system simply avoid letting capital in?

(d) The implications of the global access control system for the capital master plan

An immediate cost was Poland s reversal of its resistance to an American anti ballistic missile system.

Think of the productivity cost of millions like him having to adjust to a new system.

Its health care system delivers better outcomes than the US, at a fraction of the cost.

No system of venture capital ie, one where investors support promising new scientific developments exists.

As this capital cascades through the global financial system, it will re inflate the economy.

No system of venture capital ie, one where investors support promising new scientific developments exists.

China has a two tier system in which the capital account is strictly controlled most other currencies don t distinguish between current and capital accounts.

Today s historically low interest rates should encourage long term investment, as they lower the current cost of capital.

Similarly, banks would have incentives to game capital adequacy requirements by manipulating how capital and assets are defined. Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.

The result is an increase in the cost of capital to firms, which lowers investment and exacerbates the crisis.

In issuing contingent capital, banks would have to pay a higher interest rate than they would on ordinary long term debt, because debt investors will face the true cost of capital, not the government subsidized cost. Over time, however, the interest rate premium is likely to be small, because higher capital requirements and contingent capital should significantly reduce the likelihood of ever reaching the triggers.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

Many now claim that abolition of capital punishment is a precondition of a civilized criminal law system.

Rather, the banking system is at the brink of insolvency, with a permanent loss in equity capital.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

Some claim that smaller entities can fail without impairing the system, thus sparing taxpayers the cost of a bailout.

Merchandise needn t pass through the capital, as it does in most Latin American and Caribbean countries, with the associated cost increases.

Indeed, in many countries, exaggerated fears of deflation are keeping interest rates depressed and the cost of capital at historic lows.

In a well functioning economy, one would have expected the low cost of capital to be the basis of healthy growth.

A bloated and dysfunctional financial system had misallocated capital and, rather than managing risk, had actually created it.

But China s draconian capital controls and massive financial repression currently disqualify it from anchoring the global economic system.

Hedge funds can also destabilize the system, as the collapse of Long Term Capital Management in 1998 demonstrated.

Higher capital ratios and liquidity ratios are only one of several approaches to making the financial system safer.

A bloated and dysfunctional financial system had misallocated capital and, rather than managing risk, had actually created it.

Regulators take the view that the impact of higher capital requirements on the cost of credit to borrowers will be modest, as the overall cost of funds to banks will not rise much.

Second, new capital ratios with multiple and decreasing capital thresholds, which trigger increasingly intrusive corrective action, should serve as the basis for a new system of mandated supervisory action.

We usually don't, and we want to start getting the accounting system right so we can pay the real cost.