Impending capital controls, imposed by governmental regulatory authorities, can cause investors and fund managers to extract money from one country and send it to another. Such controls, which can be short term, would restrict or completely bar the sending of capital outside a country. This flight of capital can also reflect fears of a currency devaluation or general discontent with a political situation., the transfer of large sums of money from one country to another in order to seek greater security, higher interest rates, or avoid political and economic upheavals, flight of capital - a rapid movement of capital out of one country because of lack confidence in that country's economic future