Sentences with phrase «power over the capital»

A bid by London's City Hall and town halls for more power over the capital's finances would not raise any more money, and was not about «snatching lots of taxes from the Treasury» Boris Johnson has said.

Michael Conner, representing the intervener Attorney General of Manitoba, argued that federal or pan-Canadian power over capital markets should be restricted to dealing with financial crises.

Not exact matches

«Right now they clearly have a loyal user base in the younger population, but the over 30 year old demographic is one of the most attractive segments for advertisers because of their spending power,» Eric Kim, managing partner at venture capital firm Goodwater Capital, wrote in a capital firm Goodwater Capital, wrote in a Capital, wrote in a report.

But industrial capital as well as labor has come under attack in an internecine war of finance capital against industrial capital, and even against the power of governments to retain control over national economies.

The NDP government announced it was: settling the PPA dispute over the enforceability of the «Enron clause» with Capital Power, TransCanada and AltaGas, leaving Enmax the... Continue reading →

The people who are furious about the closure of the Edmonton City Centre Airport or annoyed about the funding of the Art Gallery of Alberta are unlikely to vote for the same candidate as the people angry over the Capital Power - Epcor decision.

With large staffs that know industries extremely well and have negotiating credibility, venture capital firms have power that gives them a competitive edge over the typical funding source.

A source told Capital Tonight that one of the proposals being floated in the negotiations over Senate leadership would be to allow IDC Leader Jeff Klein to retain the power of co-president of the chamber, along with veto authority and a seat at the budget negotiation table.

Globalisation has dramatically increased the power of capital over labour, with workers at the bottom of the pile and even the «squeezed middle» coming under huge pressure.

«Any time you are exerting influence on where to place well over a hundred billion dollars in assets, you have power and influence,» said Jon Lukomnik, a former deputy comptroller for New York City who is now a managing partner of Sinclair Capital.

The relatively low capital cost of SMR - 160 and high availability (over 95 % capacity factor) makes it an ideal source of economical and reliable power to promote industrial growth.

He's a lame duck president with diluted power; Democrats control the U.S. House and Senate; and he's burned up much of his political capital with lawmakers wrangling over the war in Iraq.

The concept of professional capital on the other hand consists of three components: human capital (the quality of individual teachers); social capital (the collaborative power of teachers as a group); and decisional capital (the wisdom and expertise of teachers to make sound judgments about learners that are cultivated over time).

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

By Rafael Heller KAPPAN: In preparation for this issue of Kappan, we compiled a list of all the people who wield power and influence over K - 12 education, from the local level to state capitals to Washington, D.C. -LSB-...]

E Ink has partnered up with Visionect to have 15 solar powered parking and road signs distributed all over the capital of New South Wales.

By adjusting the nominal interest rate to compensate for the effects of inflation, you are identifying the shift in purchasing power of a given level of capital constant over time.

In developed markets, the right to a certain return of capital is actually costing anywhere from — 1.5 % to — 0.5 % per year in real purchasing power.1 On the other hand, real yields in many of the larger emerging market economies reside solidly in positive territory — returning anywhere from about a 1 % premium over inflation in Mexico and Russia to more than 6 % in the case of Brazil.

Similarly we showed that the power of the company over its customers and suppliers was increasing and evidence supporting that was visible by studying the company's improvement in gross margin and also because of the reduction in its working capital intensity over time.

Or perhaps a flood of new investment capital over the last decade or so has produced a lofty ending valuation, which has yet to mean revert, 12 and which would lead the regression to underestimate the true power of valuation for the low beta factor.

These companies are characterised by strong returns on capital and a sustainable business franchise - offering pricing power and control over business direction.

Managements are nearly entirely devoted to squabbling over spending money, political fiefdoms, getting the most power or resources, maximizing their options which typically reduce return on capital, buying back stock at high levels (when rationally they should be doing a dilution arbitrage, so that investors who bought at rational levels would receive a positive return of cash provided by those who irrationally buy into bubbles), not buying back stock at low levels (when rationally they should be buying, to arbitrage the other direction), etc..

Only recently established in 2011 to take over the functions of the disbanded Securities Commission of New Zealand and Government Actuary, the task of the FMA is «to promote and facilitate the development of fair, efficient, and transparent financial markets» and that it «will use the full range of its enforcement powers, targeting conduct that presents the greatest likelihood of harm to the function of open, transparent and efficient capital markets.»

If an investor owns a stock that increases in price 3 % over the course of a year, but inflation is at 4 %, then in terms of the purchasing power of his capital, the investor has actually suffered a 1 % loss.

This method expresses the nominal rate of return in real terms, which keeps the purchasing power of a given level of capital constant over time.

Iwate's claim to fame is that its city of Hiraizumi was, for over 100 years beginning in 1087 A.D., one of Japan's major capitals, and at the height of its power, home to upwards of 100,000 people, more than even the other major capital at the time, Kyoto.

While geothermal projects require significant up - front capital investments, especially for exploration, drilling, and power plant construction, the typically low operation cost — including zero expense for fuel — means that over their lifetimes geothermal power plants are often cost - competitive with fossil fuel or nuclear power plants.

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Remember, the real issue with solar energy is the high capital cost (with some solar power plants quoted at over $ 2.5 million / MW).

«HVDC has the ability to transmit large amounts of power over long distances with lower capital costs and with lower losses than AC.

As to the second question put before it — whether the most recent version of the draft of the federal Capital Markets Stability Act exceeded the authority of the Parliament of Canada over the general branch of the trade and commerce power under s. 91 (2) of the Constitution Act, 1867 — the Court of Appeal answered «no» to it as well.

Panic takes over in the «nation's» capital, followed by improvisation, vague promises of more devolved powers, and not - so - subtle threats about what it will all mean for the shared currency and the breakaway state's place in the larger common market (their EU to our NAFTA).

Riverstone Holdings LLC is an energy and power - focused private investment firm founded in 2000 by David M. Leuschen and Pierre F. Lapeyre, Jr. with over $ 34 billion of capital raised.

He also successfully represented a major US energy company in an LCIA arbitration over off - shore oil rights seated in London, a European company in a fast - track arbitration in Zurich, a major industrial group in an ad hoc insurance arbitration seated in London, a leading European oil company in an ICC arbitration seated in London, a private equity firm in an ICC arbitration seated in Geneva, a US insurance company in an M&A arbitration seated in Paris, and a major multinational capital equipment manufacturer in institutional and other arbitrations in multiple European fora arising from power plant projects.

In VTB Capital PLC v. Universal Telecom Management, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal considered whether it had the power to grant a Mareva injunction over defendants against whom no substantive cause of action is asserted («non-cause-of-action-defendants» or «NCADs») when the cause of action defendant is beyond the jurisdiction of the court.

The choice of one jurisdiction over another can, and often will, have enormous implications: whereas England and Wales is often hailed as «the divorce capital of the world» for its broad powers to bring about a fair financial result on divorce, many other jurisdictions are inflexible or provide far less generous financial provision.

After that election was over, I started my own for the New York Observer, powered by Blogger, which my editor (who now runs Capital New York) christened The Politicker.

The Commonwealth spent $ 256 million on the CHIP in 2004 - 2005.294 Over the decade 1991 - 2001, $ 725m was spent on construction or purchase of 5901 houses; $ 106m on upgrades / renovation of 6534 houses; and $ 645m on capital costs of housing related infrastructure (water, power, sewerage).295

Monument Power is currently developing multiple utility scale solar PV projects ranging in size from 10 to 50 megawatts in California, Nevada, Colorado, Virginia and New Jersey with advanced plans for over $ 500 million in capital expenditure.