Sentences with phrase «effectively buying public»

«When corporations and their big money lobbyists pay for election campaigns, they're effectively buying public policy.

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The problem is that the central bank has to keep following through, which effectively means buying assets at prices that ensure central bank balance - sheet losses - these would essentially be government expenditures of funds that could otherwise be used to benefit the public.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

If the public takes a 2 week real estate course and given access to the MLS system and real estate forms, they can easilly and effectively buy and sell real estate on their own and without the need of a real estate agent.