Keyword: venture capital

Banks and Non-Bank Finance (5/12/2010)

Banks may be able to expand money supply through fractional-reserve loans, but more and more loans and other financing are channeled through the non-bank finance sector.

Keywords: asset-backed securities, banks, bond market, capital markets, credit expansion, debt, debt market, fractional reserve system, loans, money expansion, money market, stock markets, venture capital

The High-Tech Treadmill (6/22/2001)

The profit of New Economy business firms that have very high R&D fixed costs and very low marginal costs is brutally squeezed in economic downturn.

Keywords: average costs, business cycles, competitors, demand, fixed costs, hi-tech companies, investment, loss, marginal cost, new economy, obsolescence, profit, R&D, sales, software, upgrading, venture capital