Sentence examples for destroy capital from inspiring English sources

Since 1982, when runaway inflation was going to destroy capital, if not capitalism itself, bond investors who took the risk that the beast would be tamed have been hugely rewarded.

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Yes, the old way of measuring capital requirements needed updating, but it was crazy to base it on a firm's internal VaR, partly because that VaR was not set by regulators and partly because it obviously didn't gauge the kind of extreme events that destroy capital and create a liquidity crisis — precisely the moment when you need cash on hand.

Why? Like Fannie and Freddie, this entity would waste and destroy capital.

English seems limited to the occasional Pizza Hut, Subway, KFC or CitiBank logo; signs for a handful of cafes catering to foreigners (the Republic of Coffee, Fashion Dolls) and a spa offering "erotic massage procedures"; and a bit of anti-globalization graffiti ("Destroy Capital" scrawled below a drawing of a bomb festooned with a burning fuse and sprouting American eagle wings).

The company has instead "destroyed" capital through "its failed exploration program," the hedge fund claimed.

If Airbus does nothing, says Scott Babka, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, its profit margin will be some 4% and it will be destroying capital.

And there has been a new exodus of refugees, thousands of whom were living in the two villages after they fled the destroyed capital, Grozny, 30 miles to the east.

Russian troops have finished a two-month operation to clear Chechnya's nearly destroyed capital of mines, but rebels elsewhere are stepping up attacks on Russian-held areas, the military said today.

And when the cleanup of the destroyed capital, Brazzaville, is completed, the country's citizens will find themselves burdened by one of the world's highest levels of national debt per capita.

In itself this seems fair enough, but is it not something of a contradiction to be urging banks to face up to their bad debt problem with more write-offs, thus further destroying capital, while at one and the same time demanding that banks raise lots more new capital so that they can start expanding their balance sheets again.