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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Spain Levies Consumption.

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Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. The tax is just enough to make sure that homeowners cannot gather and store solar energy cheaper than state-sponsored providers. The tax, labeled a "backup toll" is high enough to ensure that it will be cheaper to keep buying energy from current providers.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Only Hope For Italy is.

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Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. The problem is cultural and ideological. And in Italy in the last thirty years, the credit market has served to finance the public debt. As a result, businesses remain small, because they are funded with self-financing. December 2008 (85).

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Scranton Needs 117% Property Tax Hike to Balance Budget

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Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Scranton taxpayers could face a 117 percent increase in taxes next year as the citys finances continue to spiral out of control. Rise of Technocrats, Fraudulent Conveyance, MF Global, the Culture of Greed, Christina Romer, and the US Dollar. December 2008 (85).

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How Corporate Boards Connect, in Charts

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Only about 18% of interlocks were international in 1976, and most of those were transatlantic links in finance and energy — two of the first industries to begin globalizing. In 1976 the business elite focused their energy on building deeply enmeshed regional networks. Shell’s Board Interlocks, 1976. SOURCE Eelke M.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: About that "Beat the Street.

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Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross domestic purchases increased 0.8 Rise of Technocrats, Fraudulent Conveyance, MF Global, the Culture of Greed, Christina Romer, and the US Dollar. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78).

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Luxembourg PM Jean-Claude Juncker to Resign Over Spy Scandal

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Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg, and also the head of eurogroup finance ministers will resign over spy scandal. Mr Juncker has been prime minister since 1995 and was head of the eurozone finance ministers group between 2005 and January 2013. "I

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Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales

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Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. That means they benefited from cheap financing as the Fed kept short-term interest rates near zero for more than four years. The Feds historically low near-zero interest rate makes financing cheap, allowing mortgage REITs to use leverage to provide an attractive yield.

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