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And the housing wealth of existing owners does not translate into significantly higher spending, given the lack of access to home-equity loans and cheap mortgage refinancing.
At the time, most of the owners were from Taiwan or Hong Kong; today, more than 70% of the island's industrial companies are locally owned.
And in Germany, mandatory worker representation on the board of directors, together with substantial job security, effectively gives employees many of the attributes of owners.
If owners walk away from their homes, credit losses could be $1 trillion or more, wiping out most of the US financial system’s capital and leading to a systemic banking crisis.
Instead, the public has been outraged by lurid accusations concerning the Indian Premier League (IPL) – bribes for bad play, owners betting on games, and players seduced by starlets and call girls.
Here was a venture that opened new vistas for businesses and fired the imaginations of young people to emulate the entrepreneurial energies shown by owners, promoters, players, and fans.
This is one of the highest such subsidies in the world, attesting to the authorities’ seriousness about encouraging consumers and fleet owners to switch.
The bad news is that this is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future, and that the owners of natural resources will therefore make every attempt to extract their resources and thus pump the fossil carbon into the atmosphere before the UN finds a way out of this impasse.
But ISPs’ costs also include warning people away from bad sites, which requires a due-process system to notify owners of compromised websites – so that they can fix them or realize that they have been exposed.
Cities might also consider changing residential zoning laws to encourage owners of single-family homes to add accessory units, such as garage apartments and backyard cottages.
Previously, Murdoch and his sons were somehow deemed “fit and proper” owners for a UK television license.
A higher tax rate would spur owners to sell, leading to the restoration and improvement of land and buildings – effectively acting as a large stimulus package.
In order to improve aspiring business owners’ prospects, some countries have begun to offer start-up subsidies to unemployed workers, sometimes in lieu of unemployment benefits.
For example, specialty-shop owners often find that doing business online is far more profitable than operating a brick-and-mortar store, because online retail expands the market for the knowledge contained in the products that they sell.
At the end of a successful apprenticeship, a start-up subsidy should be available for aspiring entrepreneurs with good ideas and proven potential as business owners.
Sometimes, Argentine negotiators respond to international bond owners, who harass the government in an effort to force payment on what cannot be paid.
He instituted a severe crackdown on gun ownership, and forced would-be gun owners to submit to a rigorous application process, and to document why they would need a gun.
Since citizens’ militias are anachronistic, gun owners now use the second amendment merely to defend individual gun ownership, as if that somehow offers protection against tyranny.
And yet, each time, gun owners scream that freedom will be eliminated if they are unable to buy assault weapons and 100-round clips.
Breaches of copyright will become even more widespread than they are today (although they will cost the copyright owners very little, because the poor would be very unlikely to be able to buy books or other copyrighted material).
But, because we cannot be certain that the threat of punishment deters all crime, or that all criminals are caught, our ability to induce gun owners to behave responsibly is limited.
As the government hands more power over the rainforest to large business owners, ordinary citizens – including smallholder farmers and poor urban dwellers – are bound to suffer.
Owners and Winners in Eastern EuropeBUDAPEST: Only by the skin of his teeth did Vaclav Klaus, the blunt proponent of a "market economy without adjectives," return to power in Prague after last spring's parliamentary elections.
Entrepreneurs even more markedly diverge from the rest of the population, with 67% of business owners opposed to new price controls, while only 37% of the remaining sample share that opinion.
Current US law blunts this disadvantage by allowing US companies to defer paying US tax on profits earned abroad by foreign affiliates until they are repatriated to their US owners.
Managers, not owners, get the final say in corporate decisions.
This may mean that buyers will not allow prices to rise like last time, but it could also mean that owners will be more ready to exit from the market.
The term “capitalism” used to mean an economic system in which capital was privately owned and traded; owners of capital got to judge how best to use it, and could draw on the foresight and creative ideas of entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers.
This shift of power from owners and innovators to state officials is the antithesis of capitalism.
The money came largely from selling mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations, claims against claims against American homeowners (or to be precise, only against the homes themselves, as the owners were protected by the non-recourse nature of loans).
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