Central to the debate over housing affordability are two financial formulas that had long been accepted as national guidelines but that were either adjusted or ignored over the last decade.

But he acknowledged that the government and the developers had yet to agree on an acceptable financial formula for the merchandise mart planned for Eighth Avenue between 40th and 42d Streets.

In some ways, Mr. Dimon's return may herald the end of an era - that of imperial Wall Street chief executives, more comfortable working a boardroom than sweating out complex financial formulas.

The obscure McDonald's alter ego company was based on Sonneborn's unique even lesser known financial formula.

As per Constitution, the program awards the designs of financial formulas of economic distribution to provincial and federal government for five consecutive years.

Mr. Maisel has also clashed with Ryan Kavanaugh, a Hollywood financier, over credit for Marvel Studios' financial formula.

He said the Mets had been told of the proposed financial formula more than a year ago.

All these numbers figure into a financial formula that is taking health-care dollars away from New England veterans.

An increase in financing could be hard to sell to the banking committees, which have many new members not familiar with the complex financial formulas that are involved.

Representative Myrick's financial formula is equivalent to a family's carrying heavy credit-card debt as a way of holding down further spending.