| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Although American bank regulations limit the use of equity in credit decisions for fear that it will distort the bank's judgment of creditworthiness (the worry is that the upside potential will encourage a bank to take undue risks, forcing federal guarantors to bail it out if markets sour), lenders such as Silicon Valley get around this by keeping their equity stakes small, as a fraction of both t
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