The increase is striking because the campaign finance law enacted in 2002 now forbids federal elected officials and candidates from operating their own 527 groups.
"I hate them and will never trust them any more," says Mr Li.This transfer of affection away from South-East Asia and toward China has been the most striking development in East Asian finance since the crisis.
The coalition is perhaps the most striking example of a campaign finance trend that blossomed during the 2014 election: outside spending groups, not subject to contribution limits, set up to help one candidate.
The promise to simplify school financing offers a striking example of the many questions regarding the governor's plans, and when approached by reporters after his address, he declined to talk to them.
"This is not a striking surprise," Bruce Greenwald, a professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School said of Time Warner's news.
On average, about 12 people per year have completed the program — the overachievers of the overachievers — including a striking number of big names in finance, industry, law and government.
That was a striking achievement, given that its public finances were actually looking relatively sound.
A striking measure of that is the latest campaign finance reports.
The most striking new addition to the pantheon of corporate finance, were the new proposal to be enacted, would be the "deemed dividend".
Yet, a very welcome compilation of materials to illustrate concepts in economics by the American Economic Association, tellingly labeled "real-world economics", reveals a dominance of microeconomic applications and a striking underrepresentation of questions in macroeconomics and public finance.
