In social and cultural terms, Māori land has been made an illusory and meaningless asset".
And alternative assets provide the illusory hope that underfunded pension plans can be made whole again by simply changing asset allocations.
Is it true that Orimupiko 22 is an illusory, meaningless and under-performing asset?
Prosecutors also could pursue evidence that executives knowingly awarded bonuses to themselves and colleagues based on overly optimistic valuations of mortgage assets — in effect, creating illusory profits that were wiped out by subsequent losses on the same assets.
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Some of this wealth may prove illusory and just like John Law, attempts to prop up asset prices that have lost relationship with the wealth of the underlying economy, may end up being a failure.
Some economists have said that the increase in incomes at the top is illusory and is in good part simply converting untaxed assets into taxed income to take advantage of reduced tax rates.
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Echoing objections raised by Continental and Northwest in separate filings, Mr. Icahn said American's proposal was an "illusory one-sided deal" that effectively gave American an option to buy any of T.W.A.'s assets while leaving it free to walk away at any time without penalty.
As Wall Street titans grabbed bonuses based on illusory, short-term paper profits, so regular Americans took on all kinds of debt wildly disproportionate to their assets and income.
In evaluating Tebow, he has obvious assets like size and athleticism, and a superabundance of intangibles: work ethic, leadership and some elusive or illusory traits that make him "a winner".
