The events that we see in the everyday world of space and time arise only at the final stage, from the concluded transactions (closed deals) in this underlying Quantumland.
The move in effect shut the bank and its subsidiaries out of America's financial system, preventing them from concluding any transactions denominated in dollars an essential function for almost any bank.
We can only assume, then, that Miller was not involved in advising his old Spurs colleague Steve Archibald, who is on the verge of concluding a transaction which, traditionally, has all the fiscal rectitude of using £50 notes as emergency toilet tissue.
Grab has conducted its comprehensive due diligence and legal analysis with its advisers before entering into and concluding the transaction.
After a three-day hearing Mr Justice Leggatt issued a 20-page judgement concluding: "The transaction failed for reasons which do not fall within any of the three lines which would entitle the trustees to recover their costs - I find that the trustees are not entitled to recover their wasted costs".
"We believe that speed in concluding a transaction is in the best interest of both shareholders," said Michael Pearson, Valeant chief executive officer, on the call.
"We have received five orders from foreign customers, and concluded seven transactions with your help.
All told, the report concluded, the transactions studied by the examiner provided Enron with almost $1.4 billion in cash from 1997 to 2001.
Given the men's ages, their resources and arguably enhanced opportunities, as MPs, to conclude such transactions, maybe it is not so remarkable that at least one of the parliamentarians deciding on the future legality of prostitution may also have been a sex buyer.
"I am disappointed that we could not conclude the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement," said PHH Chairman A.B. Krongard.
To the Editor: The column illustrated the gradations between capital gains and ordinary income in similar transactions, concluding that some of it may seem unfair but adding that "not all problems have easy answers".
