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Every major economic crisis has been preceded by intellectual and ethical bankruptcy. For years, politicians and media pundits told us that we had the highest living standard and were the best in everything. Reliable studies and comparative statistics, though, told a different story.
Prominent people added to the silly stuff. T. Boone Pickens, billionaire business tycoon, misled the public in nationwide ads by characterizing the annual $770 billion import cost of oil as the "largest transfer of wealth in history." He forgot that oil for money is an equal exchange.
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... breaches, and lowering transaction costs. However, when the machinery of law is not formall...
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... of certain State laws and Federal anti-money laundering regulations, as discussed further below... Remittances: Information on Products, Costs, and Consumer Disclosures 7 (November 2005) (``GAO...
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...Poorly defined property fights in money can cause negative external effects to be neglecte... and to externalize part of their deficit costs in the form of higher prices in the EMU. This mech... was being bailed out by a constant transfer of purchasing power from the rest of Europe. . Alt...
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..."Our superior cost structure for delivering and servicing financial p... of Conduct Not Civilly Actionable May Transfer Enforcement Responsibility Away from the Securitie...He steals to get money to use in buying goods and services from other peo...
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush and Sen. John Kerry finished their primary campaigns with millions of dollars in the bank that could help cover the cost of a possible recount.
Kerry had about $45 million in leftover money that he could transfer to the Democratic Party for that purpose, while Bush had $16 million that could go to the GOP, the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity watchdog group said Monday.
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... The costs of education may be a significant portionof Arizon... spending power," their property is transferred throughthe Government's Treasury to a sectarian en... in such cases would be that his tax moneyis being extracted and spent in violation of specific...
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...But the point is that if more money necessarily meant a more effective FEC -- SEC, the... has established these offices and will transfer some existing staff to them, our aim is to fully s... how that fits together with the rest of the cost of the program. GARRETT: OK, is that one of the p...
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... developments result in an unhedged in-the-money embedded option. Concluding, we identify the follo... granting free embedded options, which are costly for the investment unit and as a result for the or...
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... estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer ("GST") tax exemptions to $5,000,000, the reductio... value (commonly referred to as "seed money"). The seed money is then used by the trust as a d... or even eliminate trust administration costs and the need to use "Crummey" notices annually. In...