The protesting crowd's demand We want capital punishment .

Property or capital gains taxes could help curb demand for housing as an investment vehicle.

Small wonder, then, that Germany s economy rockets when the world s demand for capital goods soars.

Meanwhile, higher public spending on capital investment and other special procurements will boost domestic demand.

When countries suffer from low investment demand, freeing up capital inflows does not do much good.

By sharing capital equipment, we make it more accessible to more people and ultimately increase demand.

So, one reason countries do not like capital inflows is that it means more domestic demand leaks outside.

So China is stuck in a currency creating cycle GDP growth encourages investment, which boosts demand for capital.

Sovereign obligations, such as bonds, are commonplace in the capital markets, and demonstrate strong investor demand and confidence.

The problem here is that these measures implicitly assume that risk declines when markets are doing well they demand less capital during calm periods and more capital during volatile periods.

The growth in domestic investments would not only enhance national wealth, but would also spur the demand for foreign capital and technology in an escalating, mutually reinforcing manner that makes investments demand driven.

However, China s large size and low per capita income and capital stock imply continued rapid growth in its demand for commodities.

The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy created an extraordinary and immediate demand for additional bank capital, which the private sector could not supply.

To manage exorbitant demand for financial and physical assets, China s leaders must address its root cause the low cost of capital.

Fearing a weaker peso, spooked investors demand dollars. Capital is flowing out of the country, and official reserves are slowly being depleted.

Those who are willing to engage often demand steep risk premiums that dramatically increase the cost of capital, often to usurious levels.

When businesses and households eventually increase their demand for loans, commercial banks that have adequate capital can meet that demand with new lending without running into the limits that might otherwise result from inadequate reserves.

When production exceeds domestic demand, producers are compelled to expand exports, creating an export oriented, capital intensive industrial structure that supports rapid economic growth.

In addition, net foreign capital inflows are likely to dwindle for several quarters at least, affecting domestic monetary conditions while aggregate demand is weak.

The key problem in times like these is that investor demand for safe, secure, and liquid assets and thus their value is too high, while demand for assets that underpin and finance the economy s productive capital is too low.

What is needed in southern Europe is acceptance that domestic demand must fall to a level that allows countries to live without further capital inflows.

For example, demand for investment goods may rebound, especially in certain hard hit sectors, after a recession has caused physical capital to become technologically obsolete.

Savings could remain high, even as current consumption grows slowly, while the trade balance would be held in check by higher demand for imported capital goods.

Across the board upgrading of human capital will improve income distribution both directly and indirectly (by reducing the supply of lower skill workers relative to demand).

As far as Chinese demand is concerned, investment in infrastructure is continuing, although the share of capital investment in GDP has been approaching very high levels.

When there is no excess demand for cash, there will be no excess supply of the bonds and stocks that underpin and finance the economy s productive capital.

Moving from supply driven approaches to demand management, in order to reduce unnecessary consumption and pressures on government capital budgets, is another option that has proven successful.

But, given increasing capacity utilization in the export industries, as well as higher investment requirements owing to the normal capital replacement cycle, domestic investment demand is now also rising.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

Since export goods are considerably more capital and knowledge intensive in their production than other goods, the structural change will even reduce the net demand for unskilled labour capital and talents that move away from the other sectors will not take all the unskilled workers with them.

If the US is unable or unwilling to run the required deficits, the global economy will flounder in a savings glut of low demand and cheap capital until another alternative emerges.

For example, while US monetary policy intervention (yes, monetary policy is also intervention) has done little to boost domestic demand, it has spurred domestic capital to search for yield around the world.

There is a credit crunch, as banks with insufficient capital do not want to lend to risky borrowers, while slow growth and high levels of household debt have also depressed credit demand.

NEW DELHI The sea of humanity besieging the Shahbag area in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, for the last two months, has had an unusual demand unusual, at least, for the Indian subcontinent.

There is also a strong need for supporting long term capital flows to emerging economies to stimulate investment further, particularly in their infrastructure sectors, thereby injecting much needed additional demand into the global economy.

Second, with banks losing substantial amounts of equity capital estimates now reach 300 billion and more the need to maintain minimum equity debt ratios will force them to curtail business lending, hindering investment demand.

Energy demand

Demand reduction

Demand reduction

Demand reduction

The problem is that people do not demand houses they demand habitats.

From venture capital to telecommunications, from the construction industry to teachers unions, there is plenty of demand for evidence that celebrates the benefits of these industries and justifies (implicitly or explicitly) government subsidies to them.

Economic liberalization, deregulation of capital movements, suppression of subsidies, privatization of valuable public assets (liquidation would be a more appropriate word), fiscal austerity, high interest rates, and repressed demand became the order of the day.

Efratti of From Nation's Capital to Nation's Capital adds

The reason is simple the pre crisis period of consuming capital gains that turned out to be at least partly ephemeral inevitably led to a post crisis period of inhibited spending, diminished demand, and higher unemployment.