The result was, above all, a relief for the dignitaries invited to watch election night with the three American ambassadors (to Belgium, NATO and the European Union) in the supposed "capital of Europe".Among Europeans, Mr Obama may not have lived up to the hope of his speech in Berlin in 2008, or of the Nobel peace prize prematurely bestowed on him a year later.
The most probable Turkish-Saudi plan seems to be a direct move on Raqqa, the supposed capital of the imaginary Caliphate, to put an end to useless Da'esh and declare a Sunni protectorate.
And yet companies that felt indispensable are closing, even in New York City, the supposed culture capital of the country.
Doubts about the identification of the archaeological site were first raised by Robert M. Carmack, who realised that the supposed Poqomam capital was not located within the Poqomam linguistic area but rather within the linguistic area of the Kaqchikels.
SUPPOSE capital were bottled up in individual countries, not free to flow from one to another.
Even so, a more efficient international capital market is supposed to ensure that capital is allocated to the most productive use.
Banking is supposed to provide capital to help companies create real goods and services, not be an end unto itself.
The stock market is supposed to allocate capital to its most productive uses, for example by helping companies with good ideas raise money.
How is a relatively small north European capital supposed to compete with the likes of London, Berlin, New York and Shanghai — well, Berlin, New York and Shanghai anyway, after what we learned about London from the China Miéville piece in this week's The New York Times Magazine.
That's unfortunate, since in a postindustrial age human capital is supposed to be just as important as capital invested in blast furnaces and conveyor belts.
See, in this vein, Barbara Arniel's (2006) critique of research valorizing social capital or social cohesion in the supposed "heyday" of social capital in the United States, the 1950s, without sufficiently acknowledging how this period coincided with exclusions and harm to ethno-racial minorities, the disabled and women.
