I'm fairly certain leaders from emerging economies are not making long-term capital expenditure plans based on foreign direct investment, trends in capital markets and otherwise from the U.S., Europe and Japan.
In response, last July the Legislature approved a cultural trust fund to help arts and history groups build endowments, make capital improvements and otherwise beef up their finances.
Now given the lesson learned from the candid Brazilians, it doesn't take an advanced degree in Rocket Science to begin to discern a relationship between these opaque pools of capital and the otherwise inexplicable price moves in the energy trading pits.
One potentially fruitful avenue has, however, been available at least since the start of the protests -- but its promise has been moving towards the oft-touted "point of no return" each time the regime ratchets up the violence and external actors invest more capital (rhetorical, financial and otherwise) in a policy of accelerated collapse.
If you don't need capital to build your business or if you can find other ways (besides debt) to get that capital, and if you could otherwise provide an acceptable exit for investors who are ready to move on, wouldn't staying private be the preferred option?
"Royalty relief is an effective tool for two things: keeping investment in America during times of super-low prices, and spurring American energy production when massive capital and technological risks would otherwise preclude it," said Representative Richard W. Pombo, Republican of California and chairman of the House Resources Committee.
The startup is already active in markets like the Philippines and Colombia, where it uses activity on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to judge their online reputations and provide capital that otherwise wouldn't be available to them.
That sounds like the Senators are off helping build roads and bridges and otherwise contributing to assorted capital construction projects in their states.
Today, the startup revealed that, in addition to Tony Conrad joining its board of directors, Quarterly has added a number of new investors, including SV Angel and Initialized Capital (otherwise known as Y Combinator partners Alexis Ohanian, Harj Taggar and Garry Tan).
Kabbage is entering the space as a way for online merchants and sellers on eBay and Amazon to get capital they otherwise wouldn't qualify for at a bank.
