Governments are willing to bear these higher costs to avoid the kind of dumping and capital flight that took place during the Asian crisis, but it is curious that local investors require more compensation than international investors.
"I am determined to deliver on my election commitments, and that includes no dumping of capital dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef world heritage area, no dumping of dredge material in the nationally significant Caley Valley wetlands, and no taxpayer funding for capital dredging and the disposal of dredge spoil".
The draft UN ruling noted Queensland's promise to ban the dumping of capital dredged sediment in the reef world heritage area, limit industrial activity at ports and introduce targets to cut 80% of nitrogen and 50% of sediment by 2025.
The mess is a stark reminder of the governmental crisis afflicting Lebanon, where politicians divided by local and regional conflicts can't even agree on where to dump the capital city's rubbish.
Since the gold return address on the envelope was simply "The White House, Washington D.C., 20500," the missive conjured up a cozy image of Mrs. Bush diligently working on the cards over Thanksgiving, her last time at the ranch, or perhaps of a giant truck from the nation's capital dumping one million cards on the floor of the town's post office.
And average American home buyers were not the ones who sliced and diced billions of dollars of bad debt into securities and then made a killing by dumping them onto capital markets.
Residents of Keratea say they will not become a dumping ground for the capital's population, about four million, and argue that the chosen site — covering 50 hectares, or 125 acres, of hillside on the town's outskirts — hides archaeological treasures.
Some investors are belatedly voting with their feet, shifting future allocations within their private equity portfolio out of venture capital or dumping existing stakes in venture portfolios entirely.
Q2 2018 may have set new records for worldwide VC deal and dollar volume in this post-dot com cycle, but that belies an important fact: Investors are dumping the bulk of capital into a relatively small number of companies.
