Brussels, the capital, is the repository of Belgium's and the European Union's grandest public buildings.
Today the B.I.S. has reached a kind of enlightened old age as a venue for the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which seeks to set voluntary global capital standards, and as a repository of financial expertise.
Note this well: Just as Milken and his Drexel Burnham team compiled the most sophisticated financial data on the companies they financed in the 1980s, so today the Milken Institute has quietly made a huge investment in information technology and mental horsepower to become the world's leading repository of global capital markets information.
The Ministerial Alliance was a repository of social capital, generating strong connections between residents across segments of the community.
At least whatever is not cleared will attract higher capital charges than before; data repositories will capture details of these trades, too.The more systemic they become, the more tightly clearing-houses should be regulated.
After all, even if Tesla stock goes to zero, and its bonds default to pennies-on-the-dollar, its factories and software repositories and human capital will all be there, and no Chapter 11 court or committee will be blind to the fact that they're worth far more as a coherent unit than they would be as separate assets.
A preliminary statement seems to be highly enthusiastic about middle-class - speaks of it as "the main repository of our cultured capital".
In fact, there were more than 70 churches in the Lower Ninth Ward, churches that were essential to the fabric of the neighborhood, the repositories of its social capital.
During the yearlong erosion of U.S. bank capital, offshore pots of gold (the primary repository of the trillions of excess Greenspan dollars created through superlow interest rates from 2003 06) have shown substantial interest in investing in America but not into the ever weakening dollar.
These towers, many of dubious architectural quality, are sold off-plan to the world's "uber-rich", as a repository for their spare and suspect capital.
