At a minimum, proprietary trading ought to be financed by banks own capital.

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

They will continue to deprive the banking system of its equity capital, with little chance of it being recouped in the near future.

The lack of equity resulted largely from the concept of limited liability, which provided an incentive for excessive leveraging.

Corporations, moreover, are holding the largest amounts of cash, relative to assets and net worth, ever recorded.

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

I am convinced that we need an overall cap on leverage on banks balance sheets, regardless of risk asset weightings or value at risk measurements. The fact that equity to asset ratios are currently averaging out at about 3 tells you everything that you need to know about the inadequacy of the current pro cyclical capital requirement framework.

The fact that equity to asset ratios are currently averaging out at about 3 tells you everything that you need to know about the inadequacy of the current pro cyclical capital requirement framework.

Right now, the US, Europe, and Japan put up the lion s share of the capital, so they have disproportionate power.

He's a victim of his own success.

She's a victim of her own success.

Tom killed his own father.

Tom murdered his own father.

Tom is afraid of his own son.

Mary is afraid of her own son.

He killed his own father.

She killed her own father.

He murdered his own father.

She murdered her own father.

Tom betrayed his own brother.

Banks would scale down their balance sheets in proportion to their reported equity losses and exacerbate the credit crunch from which the world is already suffering today.

Of this vast capital inflow, overseas Chinese from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao and Southeast Asia delivered the lion s share.

Mitt Romney s Fair Share

Now, it's about 35 percent.

Here is your share of the cake.

Your share is twenty dollars.

Here is your piece of the pie.

Regulators have proposed steep hikes a Bank of England study, for example, suggested a more than three fold increase.

Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited liability investment companies.

As a result, commercial providers of debt or equity cannot get the high returns and quick exits that they seek.

UNOPS provides start up funds from its administrative budget only in order to leverage the first one or two projects.

Thereafter, the earnings from these projects serve to leverage additional projects and to replenish the administrative budget.

You lose your sense of self.

Where is our dignity?

You should be ashamed of your ignorance.

They elect their own chief.

The moon doesn't have light of its own.

Tom doesn't own a car.

This company is a victim of its own success.

Capitals of Capital

Capital flight

One post in the middle of August (when the Bank s top cats were certainly away, allowing free rein to the mice) pointed to some of the weaknesses in banks internal capital models, which are at the heart of the Basel 3 capital requirements regime.

The market share of state owned banks is 85 .

There is some truth in this.

There is some truth in that.