The most straightforward answer seems to be leverage.

The titans of Wall Street and the City of London were exposed as hugely over leveraged.

Usually, it is credit that provides the leverage, and credit is by nature reflexive.

It lists already 1,000 entities that are offering debt and equity for social enterprise.

Investment banks with leverage of more than 30 times their capital in early 2007 are now down to little more than ten times.

Leverage is down sharply.

America has shown itself to be second to none in practicing cronyism, first with its rotten corporate scandals of recent years, and now in Iraq. Asian capitalists may have stolen some borrowed loot, but at least they didn't mix finance with war.

Asian capitalists may have stolen some borrowed loot, but at least they didn't mix finance with war.

In recent days, Italy's borrowing costs have soared dangerously and the prime ministers of both Italy and Greece have resigned.

Economic rot sets in as the ranks of dependent citizens grow, productive citizens dwindle in number, and society eventually runs out of other people s money.

Debt, by contrast, is a contractual commitment to repay creditors who are largely oblivious to how the money is spent.

A time honored precept is to avoid shaking investor confidence unnecessarily.

They would have free use of their own allocations, but the IFIs would supervise how the borrowed allocations are used to ensure that the borrowed funds are well spent.

Consider, in this light, the life of the American investor Warren Buffett.

But the economic crisis has made it impossible to maintain a good life on borrowed money.

A chain of additional losses occurs when the inflated assets have been purchased with borrowed money.

The status quo allows banks instead to leverage taxpayer assistance by holding razor thin equity margins, relying on debt to a far greater extent than typical large non financial firms do.

While America benefits from increased demand for its Treasury bills (which reduces borrowing costs), developing countries receive a return of just 2 essentially zero in real terms.

In the Bretton Woods III system, China will transform from factory to the world to investor to the world.

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This differential will generate large external surpluses that will transform China from the world s factory into the world s investor.

After all, by allowing people to spend more than they have, borrowed money can fuel growth.

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Indeed, China has done this by expanding its qualified domestic institutional investor program to allow more investment abroad.

The type of regime Mubarak was running had been clear for many years, and it was also clear how the money was being used.

Even if confidence were the single most important factor, deficits are not the only, or even the most important factor determining investor confidence.

We confused means with ends.

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A project preparation fund of 50,000 is requested for the feasibility study and detailed programme set up.

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All possible means have been tried.

The end does not necessarily justify the means.

I've tried everything else.

As a result, mainstream media are being marginalized, and the previously marginalized media are becoming mainstream.

Tamper with property, no matter how ill gotten, and no investor will have confidence, they claim.

Firms are ready to invest again.

But what if MNEs provided the funds?

They have the money already.