Sentences with phrase «public money as»

That's a total of 452 times as much public money as the GWPF took from donors.

Kate Gordon, at the Center for American Progress, GCN's US member says, «If developed countries hope to fulfill their promises in Copenhagen, they must adopt strategies to use public money as a way to leverage private investment into clean energy markets in developing countries.

They get public money as long as they meet certain benchmarks.

This was duly reported during the press conference, along with the unsubstantiated suspicion that people regard public money as their own and government money as someone else's.

«The defendants treated public money as their own, and when challenged, fabricated documents to cover their tracks,» he said.

Cuomo has been a vigorous advocate of the education «reform» movement, a collection of hedge fund funded charlatans that are looking to siphon as much public money as possible from public education under the guise of «disrupting» education as we know it.

Most governments weigh the issue of building a convention center with public money as a «loss leader» for the net economic gain of additional tourism dollars, etc..

Right now, this movement appears to be based on public money as opposed to sharp money, so there is added value on the Dolphins based on square bettors.

Not exact matches

But as it and other digital «cryptocurrencies» have evolved, along with the public ledger system that makes up the blockchain, much of the bitcoin economy has been increasingly overtaken by big money — or by entrepreneurial prospectors who want to grab a piece of the bubblicious ICO phenomenon.

The New York Times reports that the impending public offering of the company formerly known as Snapchat is drawing excitement from many of the city's money managers, eager to assist Snap's 1,900 employees as some of them prepare to become millionaires for the first time.

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

The organization divvies up the money among hundreds of local public television and radio stations across the US, which license national programs such as NPR's «All Things Considered.»

We are okay with public funds being used to help business, so long as the money is directed to the little guy.

The draft, seen by Bloomberg, was circulated on Friday and outlines how a targeted levy on gross revenues would increase the tax bill digital giants face, as the bloc seeks to raise money from an industry it says provides less than it should to public coffers.

I'm not suggesting blindly spending money just because something is important (as Mark Zuckerberg learned when he invested $ 100 million in the Newark Public Schools).

Mackey told the magazine then that his business is mission - based, with core values including commitments to the fulfillment of equitable treatment of stakeholders, as well as the health of the public, while also having a commitment to making money.

for Transport, the public must question every major transport project as spending 2.2 billion dollars on the Forrestfield - Airport rail link is a grotesque waste of money which can not be justified with our very low population density and simply needs an efficient bus system at a fraction of the cost similar to that servicing Melbourne's Tullarmarine Airport.

Lobbying, both public and private, is likely to occur when companies think that governments are spending too much money on one thing, and (as a natural result) too little on others.

If you need skilled expertise — legal, programming, information technology or public relations, for example — you might as well spend that money.

Importantly, investors must ensure they are putting money with top quartile managers, as the spread between the best and worst funds in these more esoteric strategies is much wider than that for traditional public managers.

As the private deals get too big for VCs to underwrite on their own, some public money is making its way into them, through direct investments from mutual funds like Fidelity, Janus, and T. Rowe Price, and indirectly via pension - backed hedge funds and private equity.

CBS Radio brings in more than a billion dollars in revenue from about 50 million listeners, Henn said, and the public radio universe generates about the same amount of money from pledges and donations, as well as advertising and grants.

That there would be job cuts at a legacy IT provider is almost a forgone conclusion as these companies, many of which made the bulk of their money on pricey, proprietary hardware and software, must adapt to a world in which more companies send more of their computing jobs to a public cloud provider like Amazon @amzn (amzn) Web Services.

While Facebook went public with the intention of connecting the world to better connect consumers, its goal now is to make money, which has caused Facebook to not be as stringent in its policies as to how other companies advertise on the platform, Greenfield said.

«As technology jumps forward and people are changing preferences we have to think long and hard about what the public sector offers to people when it comes to money and how do we facilitate people living in society getting access to money in the forms and shapes they prefer them to be,» Skingsley said.

Bonds get their «tax - free» status because the money raised by the bond issue is usually for a «public good or service» such as schools or roads.

This week's order prevents GDB's depositors, such as municipalities and public agencies, from withdrawing their money, except to fund essential services.

The Liberals have introduced changes as they try to fulfil their 2015 election promise to improve Parliament's financial processes by bringing more consistency and clarity when it comes to government accounting of how it spends public money.

Last year, four times as much money was raised by private companies than was raised through initial public offerings, he says.

Federal government is concerned with public, not private, business as it relates to power, money and the stock market.

The government will maintain momentum as it moves forward to transform public services by changing the way programs and services are delivered, to ensure results and better value for money.

I truly believe that it's time, after almost a decade of prosperity in the public markets and the global economy, that we put pressure on the entrepreneurial community as a whole to start focusing on making money versus raising money.

There are lots of dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.

Reed Hastings at Netflix raised money in a high profile down round as a public CEO.

«Filling the place of smart money venture capitalists are investors with less experience in the market, such as mutual funds better known for public - market investing,» states The Information.

Their last act before the bubble bursts is the time - honored practice of taking the money and running — paying themselves as large bonuses and salaries as corporate treasuries (and public bailouts) allow.

That is an astounding amount of money for a public company whose stock is in the tank to pay as the result of a family tussle.

Most of these deals go through a privatized economic development agency called JobsOhio, which doesn't require as much transparency as a public agency about what taxpayers are getting for their money.

As for Siskey investors such as Packer, they have been unable to take money out of their Mainstar accounts since the Ponzi scheme allegations became publiAs for Siskey investors such as Packer, they have been unable to take money out of their Mainstar accounts since the Ponzi scheme allegations became publias Packer, they have been unable to take money out of their Mainstar accounts since the Ponzi scheme allegations became public.

Private Placements: A private placement is an investment where the company that raises the money is not public, and the investment is not registered as a security approved for sale by the SEC.

Our models include the Bank of North Dakota and public banks in other countries, which have put public money, such as property, income, sales and business taxes, fees and fines, to work for the public good, in cooperation with community banks and credit unions.

In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.

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«If a company is raising money you'd have to almost be nuts in this country to go public in the current market as it exists,» he said.

They also note that in a monarchy like Saudi Arabia, the blurry lines between public and private money make it unclear what exactly qualifies as corruption.

VICTORIA — After more than a century of unlimited donations, corporate cronyism and declining public faith in institutions, Big Money was finally banished from B.C. provincial and municipal elections today as bills 3 and 15 officially became law.

I believe Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheme to combat black money and public corruption, while admirable, has only reinforced Indians» faith in the yellow metal as a store of value.

««Virtual currencies» means a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or a public authority, not attached to a legally established currency, which does not possess the legal status of currency or money, but is accepted by natural or legal persons as a means of exchange or for other purposes, and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically.

The Financial Services Authority, Indonesia's financial services regulator known as the OJK, is preparing a regulation that would allow local financial technology companies to lend money directly to customers to provide more financing choices for the public, its senior officials said on Tuesday (14/02).

For, as the Public Citizen project US Chamber Watch reminds us, the Chamber, as a 501 (c) nonprofit, «is not legally required to disclose the sources of the money it independently spends on elections.»