The Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, has been trying to deal with the liquidity problems — the difficulty of businesses to line up short-term financing for normal activities — separately from the more basic problem of a possible recession.
He said in an interview in Bismarck that the difficulty of attracting business to this remote, cold state, especially the financial businesses that have provided many new jobs, would be further complicated by banking laws that differ from regulations in most of the country.
The survey of each country covers the ease or difficulty of doing business by a number of measures, such as procedures needed to start a legal business, rules concerning the hiring and firing of workers, registering property and enforcing commercial contracts.
Given the difficulty of doing business in Haiti, they will probably prove hard to meet.
Sibneft's last-minute postponement underlines the difficulty of doing business in Russia without the imprimatur of the Kremlin.
Nor did you explain that the primary responsibility for policing Puerto Rico's borders lies with the federal government.You also noted the apparent difficulty of doing business here.
Several companies have recently decided to pull out of Iran because of pressure from the United States and its allies, shareholder divestment campaigns and the difficulty of doing business with Iran's government.
While the U.S. Congress is preoccupied with the country's bilateral trade deficit with China, which it attributes to the renminbi's exchange rate, many Western investors are more exercised about the difficulty of doing business in China.
In recent months, a number of companies have decided to pull out of Iran, because of a combination of pressure by the United States and other Western governments, "terrorism free" divestment campaigns by shareholders and the difficulty of doing business with Iran's government.
Other tyre companies regard this as "brave", given the difficulty of doing business in Russia.Pirelli will not yet touch India: the market for premium tyres is tiny, and the wheel sizes of commercial trucks and of the Tata Nano (a super-cheap car) are too small, says Mr Gori.
