The Congress Party has an attractive alternative in Manmohan Singh, an experienced and capable former finance minister who is now said to be favored by Mrs. Gandhi.
There is an extraordinary demand for services - police, fire, welfare, education, health, etc. - without a tax base capable of financing them.
The mining industry is central to efforts to convert Afghanistan from an extremely small export country into a larger, more sophisticated economy, capable of financing itself.
In particular, emerging markets like India and Brazil have large domestic banks capable of financing deals, he said, while Brazil's currency has strengthened and both China and India are on the hunt for natural resources.
Abu Dhabi's oil wealth makes it more than capable of financing its grand plans, which include the Ferrari World theme park, due to open soon, a branch of the Guggenheim museum and world-class hotels with worryingly green golf courses.
While a number of people have declined public money in the past, most often wealthy candidates like Steve Forbes capable of financing their own campaigns, the system's problems have became more acute.
What volunteer blogger covering the local city council is going to risk his or her family's well-being to pursue a story against the wishes of some scandalous corporate entity capable of financing an entirely baseless libel lawsuit simply to silence a critic?
Catherine believed she had showed Spain that the French monarchy, far from being financially ruined and at war with its nobles, remained a glorious force to be reckoned with, capable of financing displays on a stunning scale, backed by a unified court.
But we also need banking upstarts — the Googles of finance — capable of competing with the big banks.
And, while there are plenty of honest, capable people in finance, the ease with which investors looked past Wall Street's failings seems like a classic case of what the social psychologist Leon Festinger called "cognitive dissonance".
