Drivers regard their licenses as precious capital assets, which they hope to resell in turn.
For the people that have the capital assets, what are the things that they buy?
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Prices have collapsed and return on capital assets industry-wide hovers at just 4%.
Investment in plant, equipment and other capital assets is growing at rates not seen since the runaway years of 1993-94.
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While burying your money in the ground wastes its talents, most save via bank accounts or through the purchase of capital assets.
And those financial assets are a stock: they are (to an acceptable level of detail) the capital assets from which we make that added value.
For speculators, wine futures are capital assets taxed like Microsoft shares.
It means that people with capital assets will be bailed out.
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Speculation has run rampant from allegations (though unproven) of abuse to notions that he invested in Bain Capital assets that he knew would increase dramatically in value.
Commodity futures are capital assets and get taxed as if they were 60% long term and 40% short term, regardless of how long you hold the positions.
By submitting to the highest levels of scrutiny, HR would expose the entire organization and its executives to potentially increased liability for their stewardship of valuable human capital assets.
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True, they had no business plan, but they did have a business: they were one of the world's leading auctioneers of in-building capital assets (as opposed to aircraft or boats, for instance).
Success often means wringing as much as possible from inadequate capital assets: the British public sector, argues Tony Travers of the London School of Economics, is typically trying to deliver continental European levels of service with American levels of tax.
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So: Okay, you have capital assets.
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To state the obvious, capital assets and consumer goods prices rise and fall all the time, and their fluctuations are essential for telling the markets what economic concepts should receive capital in abundance, and which ones should be starved of it.
Long and short of it was, if IR could get back the market share it was losing while at the same time boosting its return from capital assets, Kumar could return the operation to a sound footing even without touching the mass fares or laying off staff.
If applied by the UK Government - and it may have to apply them quickly, as the Project Verde sale is well under way - that would require Lloyds to make its Project Verde assets much less onerous in capital assets required to back loans.
From January 1st 2012 banks around the world will have to hold significantly more capital against assets in their trading books.
But the traditional argument against that tax credit is that it is costly to the U.S. treasury and that it creates economic inefficiencies, forcing capital into assets that are less productive.
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On the one hand, the ratio of capital to assets would be boosted very significantly in "good" RBS, because some loans and investments with very high risk weights (in the jargon) would have been detached.
Regulators said Tuesday that new banks will need to hold 4.5% in equity capital against assets, less than the roughly 10% levels required at the country's major banks, and the lowest level possible under coming international rules known as Basel III.
The problem is that until banks have all the capital they need, and as I have already mentioned, all the banks will be sorely tempted to boost the ratio of their capital to assets by lending less, to shrink the denominator in the calculation.
On Dexia, it was only on July 15 that the European Banking Authority disclosed that this retail and public-sector finance bank would have a ratio of core Tier One capital to assets of 10.4%, even after incurring notional losses from harsh simulated financial and economic conditions.
Because capital is usually, and legitimately, a small percentage of assets, capital can easily go to zero and a perfectly sound institution can be declared insolvent and taken over by its insurer or some other government agencies.
It's yielding 4.8% and has a fortresslike tangible equity ratio (capital minus intangible assets) of 13.9%.
Hence it is vital that banks carry bigger safety buffers of capital and liquid assets.
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Low levels of capital relative to assets were a major factor in the recent global financial crisis.
The Volcker rule, which puts limits on banks' ability to invest capital in alternative assets, could also help Blackstone.
Private investors will not commit capital to productive assets when the value of those assets is losing ground to inflation.
To save and invest is to expand capital, while selling assets in order to consume wealth is to destroy limited capital.
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