These entities enable banks to exchange investments for cash to finance their operations and, at times, make their finances look stronger than they are.
Banks will react to bonus limits by pushing up fixed salaries — which will make their finances more vulnerable when the next crisis hits.
In litigation that began in 2011, investors accused big banks of suppressing Libor during the financial crisis in order to boost earnings or make their finances appear healthier.
All but one of the eight current US projects depend on selling CO2 for this, to make their finances add up.
Another possible distortion is that local officials may be hiding tax revenue to make their finances appear worse, in order to get more money from Beijing to finance infrastructure projects.Overall, Dragonomics's Mr Kroeber thinks that GDP growth in the year to the first quarter of 2009 was not significantly overstated.
The owners never make their finances public which causes distrust among the players and the public.
Conservative Aboriginal affairs critic Cathy McLeod, one of the few Conservative MPs to attend or speak at the debate, however, remarked on what "terrible disservice to band members" it is to retreat from the First Nation Transparency Act, a piece of legislation passed by the previous government, which forced band councils to make their finances public.
Contrast that with the artists, who quickly went to work making their financing a statewide issue.
The size of the subsidy is debated heatedly by economists, but one recent study estimates that before the financial crisis, the banking behemoths obtained a subsidy that made their financing cheaper by 45 basis points, 0.45 percent.
When the legislative session ended Tuesday, lawmakers had passed bills aimed at making their finances less opaque, barring their lucrative contracts with the state — some have been known to do good business with them — and cutting down on perks like free tickets to sporting events.
