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Compare this classic Dickensian opening line with the skimmed version that follows, and ask yourself, is it really worth tearing through great prose like Gordon Gecko tearing through the assets of a newly acquired company?
"We have a resilient economic system and reserves of one of the most important things for an independent estate: power, power through the assets of oil and also through the potential of wind energy.
While the world turns its mind to picking through the assets of ousted kleptocrats like Egypt's Mubarak or Tunisia's Ben Ali, or doing a financial post-mortem on the far-flung riches of dictators like Gaddafi or Saddam Hussein, anti-corruption campaigners are pressing governments to crack down on money-laundering while leaders are still in the chair.
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The Treasury has a power to veto bonuses at the bank under the terms of insuring £282bn of troubled loans through the asset protection scheme (APS).
The bill also outlines plans to allow the government to demand information directly from Royal Bank of Scotland about the loans it is insuring through the asset protection scheme.
Ultra-low interest rates have not done the trick, nor has £375bn of quantitative easing (QE) through the asset purchase scheme.
"Everybody in the electricity industry has seen this coming for years, through the asset stripping of the companies from their American owners to the sale of them to European companies and governments….
Stephen Hester, chief executive of the bailed out bank, preferred to focus on the operating line of the results which stripped out the £825m cost of insurance provided by the taxpayer through the asset protection scheme and an £856m charge associated with the value of its debt.
If we focus exclusively on increasing the amount of institutional investment that goes to low-carbon infrastructure, we ignore the enormous potential that investors have to help decarbonise the economy through the asset classes and investment channels that actually constitute the bulk of their investment.
The fallout has been swift since our story on National Century Financial Enterprises, the health care financing outfit whose collapse has sent shudders through the asset-backed-securities market.
Being heavily hit by the earthquake (measured through PGA) strongly affects the dwelling damage score, even after comparing households equally wealthy at the time of the earthquake (measured through the asset index) (Table 2).18.
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