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With public entities like the social security system and sovereign-wealth funds holding more diversified asset portfolios, incentives would be substantially reduced for market intervention favoring incumbents in which the state owned a large share.
The militants’ targets included branches of Bangkok Bank, the country’s largest and a pillar of the establishment;Siam Square, owned by the Palace; and a deluxe shopping mall owned by one of the richest Thai Chinese families.
For starters, given that the Internet is a transnational network of networks, most of which are privately owned, non-state actors play a major role.
Shareholders know of hundreds of agricultural enterprises, hotels, luxury villas, banks, investment companies and corporate jets owned by Gazprom.
In June 2009, the largest US pension fund (Calpers) owned less than 0.3% of large companies such as Coca Cola and Microsoft.
That is more wealth than is owned by the poorer half of the world’s 7.4 billion people.
The US became the envy of the world not least because it was the first country where ordinary people owned cars, and because it is still the land where people drive really big cars.
Indeed, Berlusconi and Qaddafi have shared common personal business interests since 2009, when Lafitrade, a Qaddafi family company, took a 10% stake in Quinta Communications, a cinema production company which is 22% owned by Berlusconi’s company Fininvest.
To consider just one obstacle, no vessels suitable for installing offshore foundations comply with the Jones Act, which requires that work on such projects use US-flag ships, constructed in the US, and owned and wholly operated by US citizens.
Anonymously owned BVI-registered companies contributed to the introduction of horsemeat into Europe’s food chain earlier this year.
Tahoun analyzed the relationship between stock owned by congressmen and contributions their political campaigns by the relevant firms, and found a powerful positive association.
With a sufficiently vivid imagination, one can see the long arm of Putin in the appointment of George Osborne as editor of London’s Evening Standard, owned by the Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev.
Of course, if that inhabitant already owned a house there that they can sell, they may regard the price increase as a windfall that they can claim by departing.
The huge Vaca Muerta (Dead Cow) field, owned by the energy company YPF, is just now beginning to be explored.
Labor is the use of an individual capacity that can be remunerated but not owned by others, because slavery has ended.
If you could show that you owned a trademark, you could get the “.com” domain for that name, unless someone else with a similar claim had gotten there first.
In 2013, two men, Murdoch and Lord Rothermere, owned 52% of online and print news publications in the United Kingdom.
But we know that privately owned banks also make huge mistakes.
Tech vs. DemocracyBRUSSELS – Instagram, a photo-sharing platform owned by Facebook, recently caved in to a demand by the Russian government that it remove posts by opposition leader Alexey Navalny alleging misconduct on the part of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko.
Another was found to have been a slumlord who owned illegal cage-like flats that he blamed entirely on his wife, denying any involvement whatsoever.
One reason why Singapore has a well-funded government, despite low taxes, is that its successful policies caused the land and real estate it owned to explode in value, generating a huge revenue stream.
For instance, the Russian writer Boris Mozhaev argued in 1992: “No market economy and no liberalization of prices is possible as long as land is fully owned by the state”.
For example, Smart Power India, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, has helped to build over 140 (and counting) privately owned mini-grids across the country, representing the largest cluster of local generating capacity anywhere in India.
Governments allocate credit (through direct bank ownership or by guiding credit decisions by privately owned banks), provide direct subsidies and/or tax incentives, grant trade protection, or use other regulatory devices in an attempt to “pick winners.”
Second, the Libyan crisis has crystallized the problem of corporate shares owned by sovereign governments.
When the United States and the European Union decided to impose sanctions on the Libyan regime, including freezing shares owned by the LIA in European and American companies, many executives at these companies were surprised by how dramatically their firms were affected by the ownership structure.
In the emerging economies, the share of wealth owned by the middle class is increasing, indicating a drop in wealth inequality.
At the start of reforms, natural resources were nominally owned by the state, and therefore by no one in particular.
The United States is a liberal democracy with a market-based economy, in which the factors of production are privately owned.
By 2014, the poorest 25% of households owned less than 2% of the country’s total wealth, while the top 1% owned one third.
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