That's what's happening in Redwood City around Box headquarters, where the city allowed a lot of taller, multi-family development but didn't extract capital for affordable housing.
In the same way, the great practitioners of capitalism, from the creators of integrated title systems and corporate stock to Michael Milken, were able to reveal and extract capital where others saw only junk by devising new ways to represent the invisible potential that is locked up in the assets we accumulate".
I entertained the masses lavishly in public, while at night I changed policies to extract maximum capital from peasants and workers.
When the Northern Rock transaction was first announced in November there was some controversy because Virgin had been able to extract excess capital from the bank.
As the area boomed following the discovery of the Comstock Lode, the Bowers claim proved to hold one of the richest seams of silver ore in what would become Nevada, and because their claim was close to the surface, it was easily extracted without initial capital investment.
Most of the new mega-structures powering skywards in central London are the product of what's termed "flight capital": money extracted from less-developed economies, that's come looking for a high-return home.
But it has yet to spend serious political capital extracting the money from Congress.
He writes: Practiced this way, private equity is not slash-and-burn liquidation, extracting money from capital.
It was also, importantly, "business friendly", which suggested some ways in which cash-strapped local authorities might manage to extract much-needed capital.
The helicopters were to fly the Delta Force troops to a site near Tehran, where they were to be transferred to trucks the following night, sneak into the Iranian capital, extract the hostages from the Embassy and bring them out of Iran aboard the choppers.
