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The buyer is giving up only money – perhaps
earned
on a lucky stock trade or at an overpaid job.
If that money had been
earned
by selling a portion of a lung, or represented savings painfully accumulated during years of backbreaking work, we might consider the exchange more equal.
The missing credits also originally could have been
earned
in other ways.
His routine capitulation to the demands of the most extreme elements of a manifestly dysfunctional Knesset, and his continuing support of his impossibly divisive and pugnacious foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, have
earned
him little praise at home or abroad.
The US is unique among industrial countries in subjecting repatriated profits
earned
by its companies’ foreign subsidiaries to the full domestic tax rate (with a credit for tax paid to the foreign government).
Joblessness is the main cause of poverty, and the best protection against it is
earned
income, for which even France’s generous welfare payments are an inadequate substitute.
Its founder, Elon Musk, an immigrant from South Africa (who in his spare time also runs Tesla, the electric-car company), funded it with his own money (which he
earned
at PayPal, another start-up) and that of other private investors.
This provided an ideal target for Sanders, who singled out the fact that Clinton
earned
$675,000 for three speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs.
The US accepted the lower valuation of the renminbi as long as China returned the dollars that it
earned
from bilateral merchandise trade by financing America’s budget deficit.
And more than 50% of Iran’s total oil revenues during the preceding century were
earned
during Ahmadinejad’s eight years in office.
But is it possible to justify the enormous rewards
earned
– or should we say received – by investment bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity partners?
They have
earned
low returns from financial sector investments, indeed those returns have been very strongly negative in the last two years.
His bellicose behavior in 2013, for example, worsened his relationships with China, South Korea, and the United States simultaneously; and in the recent crisis, all he
earned
was a halt to mocking loudspeaker broadcasts.
But recent path-breaking research by Raj Chetty and his colleagues shows that whereas 90% of US adults born in the early 1940s
earned
more than their parents, this proportion has steadily declined ever since, to 50% for those born in the mid-1980s.
Indeed, President Bush has indicated an intention to spend the political capital he
earned
during the election; the problem is, he appears intent on spending America’s economic capital as well.
This means that all money
earned
is bound to be spent, and therefore that at no point in time could there be a “general glut” of commodities.
These pro-Western policies have
earned
him near-total impunity, along with over $20 billion worth of military and development assistance.
The second step would be to shift the corporate tax base from profits reported to have been
earned
in a country to sales made and wages paid in that country.
In 2013, the average employee of Goldman Sachs, the investment bank,
earned
$383,000 – much higher than what the best-performing employee in most firms can hope to take home.
Points
earned
could be spent on lifelong education and professional training, which would thus become independent from employment status.
Points
earned
through hard toil could be spent on retiring earlier.
When a compromise package has been agreed that makes the summer look calm, when the negotiators think that they have
earned
a good rest – this is the moment for the brilliant surprise.
Imagine living on only $3 million a year, with the other $7 million paid only if the profits you
earned
turn out to be real?
And even when there are revenues to be earned, as there could be from airports, businesses might be deterred by the need to rely on long-term pricing agreements.
We also know that stabilization funds - which set aside some of the money
earned
when prices are high - can help reduce the economic volatility associated with natural resource prices.
In principle, it is easy to avoid currency appreciation: keep the foreign exchange
earned
from, say, oil exports out of the country.
Many artists involved in the creation of the spectacle, including the fireworks specialist Cai Guo Qiang, the dance star Shen Wei, and the composer Tan Dun,
earned
their fame primarily in the West.
His support for attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied territories, which he argues is legitimate under international law, has
earned
him immense popularity among Palestinians, but also a sentence of five life terms plus 40 years in an Israeli prison.
This is powerful stuff, and dwarfs the narrow technocratic instincts of Mrs. Clinton, whose schoolgirl approach to the campaign has justly
earned
her defeat after defeat in the primaries.
Instead, it
earned
some $230 billion in 2013.
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