In effect, this ties up working capital in floating stock.

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Now given we live in a globalised financial market, with free-floating exchange rates and no capital controls, how would you "do" financial repression?

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Especially high end retail floating in the outskirts of Moscow, billionaire capital of the world.

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He thereby acknowledges that at least for economies with small financial sectors floating exchange rates are feasible in the long run only if capital-market integration is slowed down.

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Floating serenely in the Aegean Sea some 250 miles from the capital, Bozcaada constitutes a momentary pause in the clamour of modern life: a quiet, bucolic place of hidden beaches, cobbled alleys, whitewashed townhouses and old-timers playing backgammon on street corners.

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In the hopper are suggestions around floating net asset value, like other mutual funds, or adding in capital buffers and redemption controls.

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Looking ahead, managers say capital continues to pour into the market from all quarters as investors look for floating-rate, wide-margin opportunities.

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Despite all that post-LinkedIn IPO bubbly floating around, most venture capitalists are still bearish on IPO levels and plan to take their capital abroad.

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If that flight by Chinese nationals spooked foreign investors enough to deter capital inflows, there could be significant downward pressure on the Chinese yuan under a free-floating currency regime, in which case the currency is now overvalued, not undervalued.

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Its Capital Trust II 11% preferred has a mandatory conversion on Aug. 16, 2003 at a floating conversion ratio of between 0.7792 and 0.8649 shares of common.

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