But, in terms of their economic effect, both types of capital are the same.
The economic effect of population decline will, in all probability, be severe, long-lasting, and evident soon.
Perhaps the most pernicious economic effect of a declining population will be on urbanization.
He found that epidemics only have a big economic effect if they are pervasive and protracted.
For maximum economic effect, that entails keeping capital and goods flowing (see our cover story this time).
Does the feelgood factor lead to a boost in consumer confidence, and therefore a tangible economic effect?
The economic effect would therefore be more-or-less identical to eurozone governments borrowing collectively by issuing so-called eurobonds.
Rarely, if ever, does the news concern a matter that could have a direct, significant economic effect.
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Yet even if they repealed the policy today, the beneficial economic effect would not be felt for years.
What would be the effect of the surtax on millionaires, the economic effect?
This means that Mr Geithner has had to come up with solutions that may sacrifice economic effect for political legitimacy.
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And Congress has failed to act thus far on elements of the congressional "To-Do" list that would also have positive economic effect.
This would have the same economic effect as taxing the corporations themselves.
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One has to go no further than Britain to see why: look at the difference in economic effect between the devaluations of 1967 and 1992.
But it would again be the effect of changing social demographics, rather than an economic effect, discrediting simple comparisons of changing household incomes over the years.
In economic effect, a trade quota is rather like a tariff coupled with a donation of the tariff proceeds to a wealthy and politically connected foreigner.
In economic effect, those buybacks are just substitutes for dividends.
That means Apple could effectively lower the U.S. unemployment rate by a tenth of a percentage point, not counting the economic effect of adding those jobs back into the U.S. economy.
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Now Airbnb, the Y Combinator company that enables people to rent out their homes to travelers, has released a study it commissioned that analyzes its economic effect on San Francisco.
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Mitchell, in his unfortunate video says that if the government did not borrow more to fund the deficit this money would go into the private banking system, be lent out and have a better economic effect.
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But the governor of the Bank of England warns that was due to the one-time economic effect of the Summer Olympics being held in London, and the U.K. economy could be back in negative growth in the fourth quarter.
The economic effect of such small raises, if the minimum wage is set close to the equilibrium point for low and unskilled workers, is not huge in itself, though it has ramifications for general wage levels, for bargaining over wages and benefits.
That makes sense since they are the two largest purchases consumers make, usually with most of the purchase price financed, significantly multiplying the economic effect of the cash down payment, while increased home construction and auto production results in significant new business for the long stream of suppliers to those industries.
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In other words, roughly half of the jobs created were indirect, a result of the economic multiplier effect from federal spending.
The vast majority are non-working or barely working actors, often employed as bartenders, baristas and personal trainers to the Hollywood community, vulnerable to the economic ripple effect of a strike.
It drives green employment, such as people who will install solar panels on rooftops, do energy audits, or help install and maintain wind turbines, thus generating its own economic multiplier effect.
Analysts argue endlessly about what this economic multiplier effect might be, however a very conservative guess would be that each direct job leads to the creation of at least one indirect job (the real number is probably over twice that).
We lost another 4 million probably in the first six months that I was in office, before any of my economic policies took effect.
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Ironically, economic empowerment has had the opposite effect, giving Beijing a means to project economic, political and military influence well beyond Asia.
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