Until the banks have more capital, forcing them to admit to losses would be problematic, to put it mildly.
Now all that remains are two newspapers in the capital, forced to operate according to the militia's guidelines.
Other militias have hampered production of oil, shut down the water running to the capital, forced power cuts, and participated in gunrunning and drug trafficking — all with impunity.
On May 4th village headmen organised against Mr Suthep and descended on the capital, forcing him to call off his six-month long siege of the interior ministry.
More and more loans turn sour as asset prices fall and businesses fail; that in turn saps banks' capital, forcing further credit contraction.
The fifth day of protests in two industrial districts near Dhaka, the capital, forced authorities to close hundreds of factories for the day, police and news reports said.
BEHIND THE NEWS Colonel Qaddafi was not injured in the raids, but the air campaign has made him a fugitive in his own capital, forced to stay constantly on the move.
D.J.'s and musicians have also been abandoning the French capital, forcing a startling conclusion upon the city's night life professionals: Paris may soon be dead at night.
Tahseen al-Sheikhly, a spokesman for the Iraqi security forces, said that immediately removing Blackwater's hundreds of armed guards could create a security vacuum in the capital, forcing American commanders to redeploy troops from elsewhere in the country.
Bernhard Felderer, the director of the economic research institute IHS, said further stock market weakness would penalize Austrian companies by increasing the cost of capital, forcing them to in effect pay a premium for investment.
