But even they have struggled to deploy money profitably.
Others — doctors, lawyers, professors — talk of creating Russian Jewish political action committees and deploying money carefully.
It is creating a budget, creating jobs, trying to make sure America is running well by deploying money in the right ways.
European regulators, for example, have pressed foreign banks to convert branches to separately capitalised subsidiaries and prohibited banks' local units from repatriating capital to their parents.By trapping capital and liquidity at the local level, America's new rule hampers a global bank from deploying money to its most productive destination, in effect undermining the benefits of being global.
The gap in spending underscores facts easily lost amid the president's low approval ratings, his challenges in winning over independent voters and the gridlock he faces in Washington: Mr. Obama brings unmatched financial resources to the campaign trail, and a team with a well-honed sense of where and how to deploy money, people and technology.
Preqin, a research firm, says 1,156 private-equity managers raised a fund between 2001 and 2006 but have not done so since (funds typically deploy money only in their first five years, leaving the next five to sell the companies they bought).
The companies survived not just because Fidel Castro and the American embargo kept larger carriers out; many of the owners have also played both sides, deploying money and favors under the cover of dual identities that let them connect with Cuban leaders one minute, Americans the next.
The VCs that are here, with big funds, they have to continue to deploy money.
Even when we aren't looking to deploy money in the public market, we probably spend more time listening to quarterly conference calls than most private investors, because when you're thinking about diligence, that's some of the best information out there.
Money is always the raw and unavoidable fact of this movie: money promised, money withheld, money deployed and money displayed.
