The phrase
"scarce capital" refers to a situation where there is a limited amount of money or resources available. It means that there is not enough capital to meet all the needs or demands.
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A failure to do so has the potential to further damage our natural resources sector, and send negative investment signals to other major projects in need
of scarce capital.
Economic activity has an inherently moral purpose: to provide the material undergirding for our common life by allocating
scarce capital in ways that will promote economic growth.
Even healthy banks are reluctant to tie up
scarce capital by offering mortgages to low - risk home buyers without Fannie and Freddie taking the loans off their books.
The vast majority, the «have nots», have ever since been locked into a vicious cycle of competition
for scarce capital.
In addition to reducing work opportunities for non-union members and their employers, the insistence on PLAs ultimately drives up costs and soaks up
more scarce capital resources.
It is also true that the State makes its investment decisions based on favoritism (lobbies, political contributions, etc.) not rational calculations of return on investment, so the majority of State choices will be misallocations
of scarce capital.
He noted that mega-incubators like 1871 are great places to get started because they enable entrepreneurs to avoid all kinds of costs and commitments that are bad uses of
their scarce capital and — at the same time — to secure access to enormous amounts of «free» resources, education, networking and mentoring that will be crucial to their long - term success.
For every success like D'Aquanni's, another entrepreneur is losing critical momentum because of
scarce capital.
Rather than access to
scarce capital, they wanted from global trade the ability to expand demand by increasing exports of tradable goods while constraining imports or, put differently, to export capital.
Lead Machine: When he started his real estate career in 2006, Hergenrother knew he had to put
his scarce capital to maximum use.