Sentences with phrase «shell game»

The securities industry has been playing this superior investment performance shell game for decades.

Such shell games have become a hallmark of the industry.

An old shell game involves constantly moving debt from one account to another in order to gain some time before repaying.

In fact, it is a complex shell game that actually reduces school funding by $ 200 million per year!

But that wasn't the point of this judicial shell game.

Unfortunately, this falls into the typical tax - and - spend - proponent shell game that argues tax policy should seek to maximize the size of government.

In the end, it all looked like a grand shell game being played with other people's money.

If so, he is not only comparing apples and oranges but he is trying to fool us with the old shell game con.

A feedback loop has formed; art is turned into a fixed shell game, moving the same pieces around a limited board.

This kind of shell game of «natural persons,» «juridical persons,» «incorporated legal persons,» and so on, is used frequently by people who want to convince you that they have found a magic loophole in the legal system that means that you are not subject to government control unless you affirmatively take certain steps, or that you can escape the jurisdiction of the country you live in by taking certain steps.

Lazio should stop playing shell games with his tax returns,» Jacobs said.

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I am most concerned by those whose politics is a true believe in the survival of, even, «unethical» fittest and who support those who make their profits by duping anyone for the sake of a profit, i.e.banks running shell games.

Superintendent Richard Organisciak, New Rochelle Board of Education and Officials within the New Rochelle Educational System are allegedly involved in the Jose Martinez shell game more then they wants parents to know.

Along with being a planet and a state of mind, Albany is the capital of fiscal shell games, back - door borrowing, and cost - shifting rip - offs.

Unravelling his corporate shell game will be costly.

China is engaged in an elaborate shell game to hide a mountain of bad debts piling up on the balance sheets of its banks, developers and state - owned enterprises.

I thought it was all a spiritual big shell game in the name of the almighty dollar, and I spent years in quiet regret and shame that I'd given all of my 20s to a music genre whose motives I no longer trusted or believed in.

Microsoft plans to spend $ 5 billion on the internet of things, and it's more than the usual shell game that big firms play with these sorts of announcements.

There is a little shell game in that CE V - 6 base price, because Toyota is charging a whopping $ 1,005 extra for the air - conditioning everyone gets.

While «painting as object» has often been a formalist issue, the works in this exhibition gather their identity through the subversion of formalism — scrambling and reassembling themselves in an aesthetic shell game where the act of painting is always an investigation of a painting's ability to push into objecthood.

It's an interesting shell game, one that we've seen play out recently in the «teacher bailout» pushed for by President Obama; the Wall Street Journal reported that the $ 10 billion subsidy to states to keep them from laying off teachers led to at least $ 100 million in additional dues for the National Education Association.

«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systems,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

VICTORIA — More than 500,000 B.C. families will see one of the largest ever medical services premium (MSP) tax hikes on January 1, thanks to Christy Clark's MSP shell game, says B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

This budget is a tax shell game and it is hitting Canadians right in the pocketbook,» Ms. Nash shot back.

it's an odd shell game until you realize that there's a game being played in the first place, and it's not by Gd

It is a commie shell game.

Religion is nothing but a pathetic, incongruous shell game that exists now only to sustain the power of its top echelon, to keep controlling sheep and to keep reeling in the tithes.

Being careful, having a clean working area, grilling the shellfish until they are properly cooked, and serving the food immediately after it's cooked are smart ways that you can play the barbecue shell game and always come out a winner.

There would be no penny - pinching or shady shell games with the payroll.

He and his representatives played an impressive shell game to maximize his exposure and earnings, and while I don't blame him for it, it's stupid to insist he came out the other side completely pure.

The only troubling part is that North Carolina might have been doing the same shell game with classes since even before the Butch Davis days.

Noting that «the Faso - Collins shell game» cuts $ 2.3 billion in annual funding for the state's Medicaid program, Cuomo said the lawmakers» amendment «will force every resident of this state to pay a «Faso - Collins Federal Tax» added onto local property taxes to make up the difference to avoid decimation of our health care system.»

Now another Albany shell game could begin.

And because it's all a budget shell game, the agencies / departments could easily manipulate [meet] their targets by already having unfilled positions on their books or using partial year calculations and some other little tricks that met the spirit of the plans that needed to be approved by DoB.

McCain's just announced economic plan is a gigantic corporate welfare shell game, more Bush trickle - down voodoo.

SHELL GAME Roughly 809 - million - year - old microbe fossils, such as this one found in Canada, may be the oldest evidence of organisms creating minerals for protection against predators.

It plays the whole absurd shell game for laughs, even as it acknowledges that the last and bitterest laugh is on the rest of us.

There's nothing unique about what we actually see within the chase (save for a neat shell game involving a pursuing helicopter, a tunnel, and a pair of cars that look similar to the pursued vehicle).

And so Cliff and Cydney, and Strange Couples A and B, chase each other around a suddenly dangerous tropical paradise - three fast moving parts in a deadly shell game.

Likewise, Sony's decision to move «The Pink Panther,» from its original release date last August to now, is clearly one of those Enron shell game hide - our inevitable - debt moves.

King's Academy and other sham school operators will continue this voucher shell game of legalized corruption that fails Milwaukee students.