At the least, it requires making public the standards by which the firm's bankers and traders will be judged.
But increasing productivity requires decisions that are essentially the opposite of takeovers: it requires making long term investments in research, in new plants & equipment, and these the relatively high interest rates have helped discourage.
It requires making a wide range of decisions, on touring, on the release of her albums, on forming partnerships with the right people and companies, each of which comes with significant risk".
But averting it requires making the right policy choices, "ending the disastrous trend towards ever less government spending and employment each year and taking advantage of the current period of economic slack to renew and build out our infrastructure".
In practice, it requires making lots of educated guesses about the repayment ability of already-strapped borrowers.FirstPlus used to finance its operations by securitising mortgages (selling them off as packages of tradable securities).
The last step--making the atoms pair--may take longer, as it requires making the atoms much colder still.
It requires making the right assessment of engineering project risk, then judging the project potential value which is affected by the risk factors.
It requires making sense of all the signals, like recency and prevalence in news, to figure out where to stick those faces and in what order on your feed.
It requires making some tough decisions and sticking to them.
It requires making tough decisions about trade-offs between cost, quality and access; building political coalitions and overcoming special interests; and committing taxpayer resources for what is arguably a public good.
It requires making the investment case for children, for a variety of different programmes and contexts.
