The people in the capital eat from the work of our hands," he said.
That could suck up capital, eat into profits and render moot the financing they're receiving from taxpayers.
But the Fed's fireplug higher interest rates is anathema to the stock market, since the higher cost of capital eats into corporate profits.
Just hustling more capital ate up a lot of the two founders' time and money: Marshall figures he has spent $400,000 in the last two years pursuing new funds.
Without any top political appointees in place at Treasury, Geithner had no one to bail him out on the AIG mess to make up for his tone-deafness, monitor the bonus process and prod him to nip the issue in the bud before it could explode into a capital-eating and capital-wasting fireball.
Banks also must meet new rules to gradually increase their capital cushions, eating into the amount they can invest.
Here in the country's street food capital, typical eating is not a long, lingering lunch, or a pizza on a sunny terrace.
In New York, brain capital of eating world, chef like Mario Batali and Anthony Bour-braaaaain use only finest human brain cuts to make brain coulis, brain frittata, brain limonata, brain cobbler and more brain.
These reserves act as a buffer against losses before capital is eaten into.
Their books roughly balanced: buy-backs, dividends and capital investment ate up 101% of operating cashflow.
We've been overwhelmed by the support of promoters and venues across the capital – from Eat Your Own Ears to Village Underground, Bird on the Wire to the Shacklewell Arms, there have been so many people keen to get involved.
