Sentences with phrase «corporate interests using»

This case is yet another example of corporate interests using their power and influence to launch a political attack on working people and rig the rules of the economy in their own favor.

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Corporate raiders pay their high - interest bondholders, while financial managers also are using this ebitda for stock buy - backs to increase share prices (and hence the value of their stock options).

Contrary to popular assumptions, the largest tax expenditures are a handful of widely - used and popular tax breaks — not a few unpopular loopholes like carried interest or preferences for corporate jets.

Stocks are being retired by corporate raiders in exchange for high - interest («junk») bonds, and by corporations using their earnings to buy their own stocks rather than to make new direct investments.

, the largest tax expenditures are a handful of widely - used and popular tax breaks — not a few unpopular loopholes like carried interest or preferences for corporate jets.

Whether the blog is corporate and commercial, for a charitable cause or activism, or strictly for entertainment, the reader expects to walk away with insights they can use in their life, or to have a very interesting conversation, at the very least.

Chuck Saletta (Prudential Financial): Prudential Financial is a company that's so interested in being considered «rock solid» that it uses an actual rock — the Rock of Gibraltar — as its corporate symbol.

But instead of using credit to finance tangible industrial investment that expands production, banks have been lending to those who want to buy property already in place — mainly real estate, stocks and bonds already issued — and to corporate raiders — those who buy companies with high - interest bonds.

Using monthly levels of Moody's yield on seasoned Aaa corporate bonds and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) during October 1928 through February 2018 (about 90 years) and monthly levels of the 10 - year government bond interest rate and the stock market from Robert Shiller during January 1871 through February 2018 (about 148 years), we find that: Keep Reading

Lastly, the GC may not be fully convinced of the interest of adding corporate bonds to the pool of eligible purchases given the lack of homogeneous and liquid markets across countries, although one idea that has been floated would be to use ETFs.

It is a matter of trading in a sensible manner and selectively using protective tariffs to defend and preserve America and her way of life» even if we sometimes have to put the interests of our nation and our people ahead of corporate profits.

«Without disclosure, there is no way to know whether corporate funds are being used in ways that go against shareholder interests,» DiNapoli said in astatement releasedlast Thursday.

Sponsor Dan Squadron (D - 26), who represents lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, made the case at the Senate Elections Committee meeting, saying the measure requires that LLCs be more transparent, and that the founders of multiple LLCs be subject to the same $ 5,000 donation limit in place for corporations and not be used «as a way for individuals and other corporate interests to skirt campaign finance regulations.»

Sponsor Dan Squadron, a Democrat who represents lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, made the case at the Senate Elections Committee meeting, saying the measure requires that LLC's be more transparent, and that the founders of multiple LLC's be subject to the same $ 5,000 donation limit in place for corporations and not be used «as a way for individuals and other corporate interests to skirt campaign finance regulations.»

THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the public retirement systems, including the retirement plan trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and

Fifth, vested corporate interests have mastered the dark arts of propaganda, and they can use their deep pockets to purchase a sea of deliberate misinformation to deceive the public.

She spends most of her time giving advice to residents dealing with oil, chemical and hazardous waste spills and pollution, using her expertise to expose malfeasance by entrenched corporate interests without a second thought to her own personal safety.

Moore denies that this presents a conflict of interest and claims Greenpeace uses the words «industry» and «corporate» as if they are swear words.

For another jaw - dropper as to the gall of corporate interests to use the veneer of science to downplay the risks of their products, check out BOLD Indeed: Beef Lowers Cholesterol?

Interesting to point out is the primary research being used to support this new teacher evaluation system going through: The research of Harvard's Raj Chetty — the Bloomberg Professor of Economics [emphasis added, given former NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «crusade» to, via VAMs, «turn the teaching profession into corporate - world shape»].

One vehicle he used was a political action committee aptly named Prosperity for Connecticut, a PAC which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from a variety of corporate interests, the most successful fundraising event being the one hosted by the charter school industry.

It has been noted earlier that there has been an apparent increase and a noticeable shift in interest in using mobiles to support and deliver learning in Africa amongst the education, corporate and ministries, and this commences a new dimension in elearning era.

Comment from Morna McDermott: How can we escape the trap that high stakes testing both serves corporate interest like Pearson at the expense of children's real learning while acknowledging that tests are being used to shut down public community schools for corporate model charter schools that have proven to be no better than the schools they replaced?

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I'm assuming it's there only to serve the interests of Corporate Average Fuel Economy, and it will get used about as often as the dusty buttons on your universal remote.

Another thing that you learn from the text and Figure 3 is they make strange assumptions about bond returns, essentially no risk as far as I can tell (or that everyone can buy corporate bonds with no change in interest and no default risk and spend them only at maturity), and further use this to argue that the 4 % rule «should» hold only bonds, which of course is completely contrary to how the 4 % rule was derived in the first place.

This feature makes it attractive to many corporate treasurers, who can use forward contracts to lock in a profit margin, lock in an interest rate, assist in cash planning, or ensure supply of a scarce resources.

DXV aims to provide a floating rate of interest income while preserving capital by investing primarily in Canadian investment grade corporate bonds and through using interest rate derivatives that seek to mitigate the effects of interest rate fluctuations.

This year investors who followed the MFIP were led to shorten maturities (therefore lowering their interest - rate risk) and also to use higher - yielding corporate bonds rather than Treasuries or mortgage - backed securities (thereby keeping lower duration and less interest - rate risk).

Many other interest rates, including the prime rate, which is a rate that banks use for the ideal customer (usually a corporate one) with a solid credit rating and payment history, are based off Fed rates such as the Fed funds.

Its proprietary formula is closely guarded, but in the interest of corporate responsibility and public relations, Fair Isaac has released information on the following factors they use in order of the weight they carry in the overall tabulation of scores, and therefore, the factors that are given priority in related credit repair services:

A review of high - yield debt investments should cover: (1) analysis of the industry, including growth rates, special risks and leading companies; (2) analysis of the bond issuer, including the company's position in its industry; new products; management stability; the outlook for growth in revenues and cash flow as captured in Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization, also called EBITDA; value of corporate assets and the debt maturity schedule; and (3) analysis of the issue, including special provisions in the «bond indenture,» covenants protecting the bondholder, use of the money raised in bond offerings, debt seniority, secondary market liquidity and call provisions.

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Corporate bonds offer additional yield, and the iShares 1 - 5 Year Laddered Corporate Bond (CBO) uses a time - honoured strategy to smooth out interest rate risk: it holds one fifth of its portfolio in five different «rungs,» with maturities of one to five years.

Additionally, returns for corporate long bonds — often used in liability - driven investment (LDI) strategies — were roughly 12 %, which offset the interest rate decline (also based on high - quality corporate bonds).

Corporate farming interests want to use our state and our valuable resources without being subject to any state regulation or oversight.

But AiB had their reasons — BOS had ballooned into something of circus, an event that they believe had been co-opted and used by corporate interests and party promoters looking to cash - in on the thousands of people who swarmed the neighborhood each June.

Using multi-colored shoelaces, the palette suggests that despite the bitter irony of this constitutional quotation in the face of rampant corporate interests, we are, nonetheless, a rainbow nation of individual human beings.

The workshop will start with examples of artworks using time lapse and surveillance and a discussion of surveillance as used by corporate and state interests.

The bigger problems of fossil fuel use are continuing and a long term effort to replace that is beset with all kinds of problems that are a combination of corporate interests, mindset, and science, coupled with the will to get it together.

Wired's April issue has a few nuggets of interest; in its business trends column, Gabriel Sherman notes that «while cutting energy use and rolling out earth - friendly products may attract a growing environmentally conscious customer base, corporate

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.

You guessed it: by turning the entire matter on its head, attempting to use it as an opportunity to blame the government rather than the powerful corporate interests who were exposed by Glantz's research.

The position you are staking out will, unquestionably be used by the very same people who promote scientific ignorance, certainly for reasons of political partisanship if not for the purpose of promoting corporate interests.

O'Malley and company plan on using newDEAL to fund campaigns of like minded politicians, basically creating a money laundering dark money pipeline from corporate interests to campaign coffers.

Somehow more or less bribing a political candidate, or using corporate wealth against the greater long - term public interest is acceptable and natural, showing your opposition to this is improper intimidation.

The potential to use innovative corporate structuring techniques to further protect the interests of local and foreign investors is a specific practice area which has evolved significantly over the past decade, due to the licensing and structuring restrictions applicable under relevant UAE laws and regulations as well as their practical application.

After completion of the pilot, in 2015 Trusch conducted another collaborative law training for in - house corporate attorneys interested in volunteering for the program, and she and Emmott refined the standardized forms used in the project.

Corporate lawyers expressed no interest in legal project management, online client services and depth and breadth of experience that law firms use to distinguish themselves.

The UK has various anti-avoidance measures to prevent excessive use of debt, such as transfer pricing regulations, the worldwide debt cap and corporate interest restriction rules.