With yields on cash and Treasury bonds so low, many investors clearly hope that hedge funds can deliver the 8-10% returns they need to pay pensions and run universities.Dig deeper: Too much finance is bad for an economy (February 2015) Fees for hedge funds are falling, but slowly (February 2014).
It takes too much skill and too much finance, and you wouldn't get permission much," Gates said.
If there's too much finance, the risk is that banks will all compete for relatively small amounts of legitimate business, resulting in declining lending standards — and, perhaps, ethical standards — and eventually, if it goes on long enough, a banking crisis.
Yooka-Laylee's fantastically successful Kickstarter of 2015 – it made a million pounds in less than 24 hours, and over double that in the end – puts Playtonic in the position of not worrying too much about financing the game's development.
It has been criticized for borrowing too much to finance land purchases.
Analysts had concluded that Apollo, based in India, was borrowing too much to finance the deal and that Cooper Tire was too big.
"If for the next 10 years, we go back to a '60s-style economy, where big firms make investments without taking too much risk, finance will shrink".
Like many Western consumers during the good times, Dubai gorged on debt and borrowed too much to finance a building boom that has gone bust in the downturn.
If it borrows too much to finance unproductive investment (all that Spanish infrastructure spending on unused trains and sports stadiums, eh!) more and more of its revenues are eaten up by the higher interest rates that lenders demand.
In 2006 too much of finance was gambling, pure and simple; and too much of the bill ended up with taxpayers.This helps explain why a feeling of unfairness lingers across the West visible in the streets of Athens, but also in the pages of Thomas Piketty.
