While highlighting the many benefits, including more readily-available capital, competitive pressure on companies, and a better deal for shareholders, Mr Moulton says "people who are buying from overseas are undoubtedly biased towards their own bases".
Readily available and cheap capital played a crucial role in lifting growth around the world, and its absence for all but the safest borrowers is causing pain everywhere.
One of the major drivers for Silicon Valley's success has been the readily available, quickly raised seed capital.
Meanwhile, injured survivors – including many children suffering from crush injuries and trauma – have been crossing the border into the Dominican Republic to seek medical attention that is not readily available in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince
In a conversation with TechCrunch, Mehta said the company didn't need the capital and that it was an "opportunistic" round, i.e. the capital was readily available and Instacart has ambitious plans to scale, so why not fundraise.
Most of the failures I have dealt with occurred at companies with a track record of success, whose managers had detailed business plans and where capital was readily available at low rates.
Business owners, bankers and federal officials have starkly different views on whether capital is readily available to small businesses, and among those who think the government must help bolster lending and investing, there is little consensus about the best approach.
And for companies that see promising opportunities, the booming stock market and low interest rates mean that capital is readily available on favorable terms already; it's not clear why a company would invest in a new factory, for example, using repatriated overseas profits but not use money borrowed at a low interest rate by issuing bonds.
In this landscape, capital is readily available, and the noise is growing — and it will continue to grow.
The bill also does not define what can be counted as capital, or how much of that capital should be readily available, known as liquidity.
