The interviews on this blog strongly suggest that the idea of finance as one big nightclub-slash-casino is wildly skewed, just like I have found little support for the belief that investment banks are rife with psychopaths.
To be quite honest, until maybe a week or two ago, my idea of finance was entirely derived from the end of Trading Places, in which Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd yell a bunch, wave some paper in the air, and manage to make enough money to go live on a yacht together.
The United States, which has its own ambitious global AIDS program, has rejected the idea of financing a health program with an airline tax.
CONS: If you don't embrace the notion of an apartment that looks like a post-"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" makeover, get in touch with the idea of financing a remodeling job.
They also said that the idea of financing the plan with tax revenues from the complex was just too uncertain to take to the bank, and that they were awaiting firmer figures and projections next week.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 - Maybe the idea of financing a new stadium here for the relocated Montreal Expos seemed easy last month when the city received the news that Major League Baseball would send the team to the nation's capital.
American officials are struggling to keep up with Somalia's rapidly evolving — or some say devolving — politics, saying they have lost faith in the transitional government's leaders and are now open to the idea of financing some local security forces, part of what they call a "dual track" approach to supporting the national and local governments at the same time.
One is to trade loyalty for further training: even companies with pared-down training budgets may be open to the idea of financing an executive MBA, or even just short courses, if you are willing to agree not to seek other employment until the firm feels it has been paid back.
He bought into Western ideas of finance… but Russia's economy is very dependent on the price of energy.
Of course, not everyone is on board with the idea of a finance billionaire Goldmanizing the new space.
That is why countries like India eschew the offer of aid (a gift, offered with heavy conditionality) but are willing to accept the idea of climate finance (a right, over which they have more control).
