Radamel Falcao started the Spanish season in spectacular goalscoring fashion for Atlético Madrid and was the centre
of much transfer speculation.
Sterling has been the subject
of much transfer speculation recently, having rejected at contract extension at his current club which would have given him a pay increase from # 30,000 to # 100,000 per week.
The German international has been the subject
of much transfer speculation for some time now, having repeatedly turned down new contract offers from Real as he looks to make the next step in his career.
Not exact matches
Additionally, now there are fantastic apps for handling our bank accounts from our smartphones (via the Internet,
of course), so waiting in a long line at the bank just to make a small
transfer is pretty
much a thing
of the past.
Overall the benefits are
much greater, and whatever costs there might be, like for example the flexibility
of transferring cash to other people, those just cause new innovation.
With the Conservatives in power, there really is
much more
of a belief that health care should really be just left to the provinces, and the extent to which the feds are involved if at all is really to support the Canada Health Act through the
transfer of funding, but not really to look at whether or not [the act] is actually being fulfilled.
It signals how
much of the company is being
transferred from investors to employees each year.
In Canada, where provincial governments own the resources,
much of this inflation gets
transferred to the public sector.
Malcolm Hamilton, a partner at consulting firm Mercer, thinks there is room for the PRPP as long as the fees are low and the plans offer enough advantages over group RRSPs for employers to adopt them (e.g.
much of the administrative burden
transferred to the government).
But he can sell as
much as 100 % in a single transaction — or, most commonly, a series
of deals spread out over a decade or so, during which time the owner gradually
transfers ownership and day - to - day management
of the business.
«If you anticipate the kind
of huge appreciation in your personal wealth that could come from an IPO or a company sale, the best thing you can do is
transfer stock to your heirs before the sale, because it will be worth
much less then, and that minimizes the tax liability,» explains Allan Landau, a partner with Boston law firm Sherburne, Powers & Needham.
Here's the good stuff: Instead
of having to pay a 55 % estate or gift tax on the 30 % stock
transfer, the child pays
much less because, the IRS says, the GRAT diminishes the value
of the stock.
Today, Vitalik Buterin, one
of Ethereum's co-creators, acknowledged that the
much - publicized Ethereum Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) had been, and continues to be, the victim
of a hack that is draining massive amounts
of Ether from the DAO and
transferring them to a «child» DAO.
It will take time for the elimination
of these
transfers to work themselves fully though the economy, but we are already seeing their very obvious initial impacts in the
much lower GDP growth numbers, even as credit creation remains high.
I calculate that for most
of this century as
much as 5 - 8 %
of GDP was
transferred from households to borrowers.
If the global economy were to recover
much more quickly than most
of us expect, and,
much more importantly, if Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program
of privatization and wealth
transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps
transferring in the first few years the equivalent
of as
much as 2 - 5 %
of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash
much stronger consumption growth than we have seen in the past.
A
transfer of domestic demand from investment to consumption implies, in other words, that employment growth can be maintained at
much lower levels
of GDP growth.
Last month, MetLife announced it would bolster reserves by as
much as $ 575 million to make up for unrecorded pension liabilities as part
of its pension risk
transfer and group annuity business to group annuitants who went missing.
Whereas today most British Columbians burn natural gas to heat their homes, 15 years from now many
of those furnaces will be replaced by high - efficiency heat pumps — electric units that
transfer heat from outside your home to warm the air indoors, and work even when it's
much cooler outside.
Cash
transfers are
much more likely to have the effects
of a «regime change» that Beckworth alludes to and Christina Romer has written about.
However, it is important to note that
much of what activists call value creation is more accurately described as value
transfer.
With Auto Savings,
transfers will occur from your checking to your savings account - automatically, eliminating
much of the discipline
of saving money.
Lessons learned in the recent financial turmoil are that certain securitization structures did not
transfer as
much risk out
of the FREs as expected.»
As I have argued before, except under implausible scenarios (at least 2 - 4 %
of GDP
transferred every year from the state to households) I can not work out arithmetically any meaningful rebalancing process that is consistent with average GDP growth
much above 3 - 4 % during President Xi's 2013 - 23 term in office.
No matter how I work the numbers it just seems to me very obvious that unless it sharply speeds up the process
of transferring wealth to the household sector so that consumption can grow
much more quickly, China simply does not have ten years in which to manage a non-disruptive adjustment unless we are willing to make assumptions so heroic that even El Cid would blanche.
For
much of my career I pretty
much accepted the consensus, but as I started to think more seriously about the components
of the balance
of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the
transfer of international status from Britain to the US.
Capital controls have historically been as
much about preventing foreigners from buying local government bonds as it has been about preventing destabilizing bouts
of flight capital, and living in China, where an aggressive demand for the privileges
of reserve currency status coincide with equally aggressive policies that prevent the RMB from achieving reserve currency status (and that
transfer ever more
of the «benefits» to the US) made clear the huge gap in rhetoric and practice.
It is believed that the processing time for the Bitcoin is in the range
of 10 - 60 minutes and
transfers can happen instantly, which is
much faster than traditional payment modes.
Cryptocurrencies are a convenient, quick, efficient, secure and also the cheapest method
of transferring money without disclosing too
much personal information.
* one
of the «post-fork» currencies alluded to above, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), seems actually superior to BTC, as its transaction costs are
much lower and its
transfer speed is
much faster — and yet, it trades approximately at an 80 % to 85 % discount to BTC.
Second, IFSD forecasts a
much higher level
of direct program expenses (total expenses excluding major
transfers to persons and other levels
of government).
If this means that the Government
of Canada is just to
transfer money without conditions to provinces, that does not help matters
much at all, because for any given level
of federal spending there will still be debilitating tax competition between the provinces.
Given the ending
of most
of the Economic Action Plan stimulus spending in 2011 - 12, one would have expected a significant decline in «other
transfer expenses» between 2010 - 11 and 2011 - 12,
much more than the $ 1.1 billion forecast by the Department
of Finance.
Liquid allows users
of a network
of digital currency exchanges to transact
much quicker than they would otherwise be able to because it reduces settlement times on
transfers.
So
much has changed over the past few years in the credit card industry, what with new regulations, the disappearance
of easy credit, the reduction
of credit card offers and advertisements through the mail, and not to mention, the expiration
of lifetime balance
transfer programs (and awesome card terms).
Politicians spend too
much money, debt expands exponentially, central banks monetize debt and desperately inflate and reflate bubbles to maintain their power and continue the
transfer of wealth from the many to the few.
Members
of Virgin's
much - loved points system already enjoy a 15 percent bonus points offer on
transfers from participating credit card partners, but...
Ask Barclays about ABN Amro, or Energy
Transfer, which recently preserved $ 6 billion
of much - needed cash by wriggling out
of its far larger purchase
of rival pipeline operator Williams.
 Almost a quarter
of that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs
of that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense
of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs
of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm
of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs
of a balance sheet
transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the
much larger line
of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs
of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all
of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs
of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share
of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs
of GDP!Â
Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs
Of course that's nonsense. This was just one
of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs
of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value
of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs
of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs).
I had hope for the new Pope with his emphasis on helping the poor (the importance
of social justice is one
of best things the Catholic Church gave to me even if I don't agree with most
of their stands:)-RRB- but I don't
much will change their stories
of embezzlement, telling the Nuns on the Bus to settle down and the history
of hiding and
transferring pedos from church to church doesn't help them either.
As a State Department official described the issue, «it was not whether the United States should aid Europe, or even how
much aid should be proposed, but how to make the
transfer of billions
of dollars to countries that had not asked for them and would not ask for them.»
Much of the research has now been
transferred to Arizona, The Pontifical Academy
of Sciences was established as a sign
of the Church's commitment to scientific research.
Moreover,
much of the
transferred land was desolate and uninhabitable, and many
of the Mexicans living in the useful territory were deeply estranged from Mex - ico City and grateful for their incorporation into the United States.
Islamic society did very
much to destroy Hellenic traditions
of learning in the Greek speaking territories and it is only because
of the subjegated Greek speakers that the knowledge was eventually
transfered to the West.
Much of what Ford says about «the lure
of God» could readily be
transferred into Kauffman's conceptual scheme.
Much of it could have been
transfer growth.
Endowed Masses were to be limited, festivals to be abolished or in the case
of the major ones
transferred to Sundays; too
much work was lost and there was too
much drunkenness.
Squeeze handfuls
of bread to remove as
much excess water as possible and
transfer to a bowl.
But not wanting to waste lots
of money in organic ingredients, I quickly
transferred the goopy mess to a storage container, dubbed it a s» mores soup and proceeded to eat it (and probably way too
much of it) for breakfast.
I always use a pizza stone but I place the pizza dough on top
of parchment paper dusted with cornmeal, which makes
transferring it to and from the stone
much easier (since I don't have a pizza peel).