In 2014, 3.3 million people pledged $529 million to finance 22,252 cool and innovative ideas.
George Osborne… bossman of the London Evening Standard… MP for Tatton… sick finance dude… cool bloke… Fun guy… ordinary geezer… is there anything this dude can't do?
"This is what people call overheating finance but a cooling economy".
He said he sought the financing in an effort to cool down a dispute with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani over how the summer program should be structured.
Drawing on federal stimulus dollars earmarked for energy-efficiency projects, state energy offices and local utilities often offer financing for cool roofs.
Canada's finance minister Jim Flaherty has said the statement - designed to cool international currency tensions - was not meant to single out Japan.
Analysts say Britons have been seduced by cheap finance and heavy discounting, but that the market looks set to cool off next year.
On Monday, Mr. Levy tried to cool the dispute by announcing that he would try to finance bonuses with private donations.
The shift in financing, moreover, could be achieved without a constitutional amendment, said the report, which will probably provide ammunition to legislators already cool to the proposal.
To cool it, the central bank has raised interest rates twice this year, most recently to 8.5% above inflation, and the finance ministry has cut public investment.
