He argued that a tax cut is needed now to prevent the government accumulating large stocks of private assets when the stock of public debt is paid off.
But the real stock of corporate assets was on no such roller coaster.
That bullish momentum in stocks is keeping investor and trader money flowing into the stock markets at the expense of most other investment assets, including raw commodities and gold.
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Over time, as the market confidence is restored, then what we can do is start getting rid of some of these assets, some of the stock the taxpayers now have in some of these companies start being worth more, we sell them off to private parties, and taxpayers can recoup that money.
Jenkyn-Jones runs an almost identical open-ended fund with the same name and 17.5 million pounds of assets on the Irish stock exchange.
It is clear that something has gone wrong with the way that the economy builds its stock of nonresidential assets.
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The inflated partnership interest is then sold at a loss and the phony loss is used to offset a real gain from the sale of appreciated stock or other assets.
The stock market falls of recent years have meant that the total assets held by many company schemes have shrunk.
Just a year later, TCI created a Liberty stock once again, this time via a "tracking" stock that reflected the value of Liberty assets but was not a direct ownership claim on them.
Vanguard would place the Muchmores firmly in its index funds, from the Short-Term Bond Index (charging 0.2% of assets per year) to the Total Stock Market Index (0.2%), a Wilshire 5000 tracker.
In a report on India's economy, the consultancy points out that 43% of India's capital stock is owned by the state, and that the productivity of these assets is well below the Indian average (see chart).
The average stock fund has a turnover in the vicinity of 100% , which means that in the space of 12 months it buys and sells an amount of stock equal to its net assets.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute says that the percentage of 401(k) assets held in employers' stock has been halved since 2000, but the numbers are still alarming.
The part of the deal covering "certain other assets" is understood to mean leftover stock and intellectual property.
That bullish momentum in stocks has been keeping investor and trader money flowing into the stock markets at the expense of most other investment assets, including raw commodities and gold.
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And those financial assets are a stock: they are (to an acceptable level of detail) the capital assets from which we make that added value.
The Morgan Stanley China A Share Fund (NYSE: CAF) invests at least 80% of its assets in A-shares of Chinese companies listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges.
Martin Gilbert said the flow of assets into Aberdeen funds invested in stock markets in emerging economies had seen a "welcome" slowdown.
Foreigners are going the other way, recognizing that aging shifts the world's largest per capita stock of individually owned assets toward better housing, more consumption and greater risk-appetite for investment opportunities.
BASF, banks and insurers also find buybacks attractive, because strong stock and bond markets have boosted the value of their assets and left them with far more capital than regulators require.
That is because the average rate of depreciation of the capital stock has risen as investment has shifted from traditional machinery to shorter-lived assets such as computers and software.
Buyers inevitably want to buy the assets of a corporate business not its stock for two reasons.
According to fund tracker Morningstar , the average domestic stock fund has embedded losses worth 40% of fund assets.
Mr Shalizi adds that economic growth deriving from this will create an enormous stock of new assets that can be shared with the world's poorest.
Its holdings include funds indexed to the total U.S. stock market (about 72% of assets) and total U.S. bond market (about 10%), along with three international index funds.
Schumer proposed the return of an idea from the Depression: a Reconstruction Finance Corp. that would inject capital into banks through stock purchases, leaving it to the banks to dispose of troubled assets.
In purchasing the stock, you will be paying for the net FMV of the underlying assets.
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It and its twin, iShares Comex Gold Trust, which trades on the American Stock Exchange, run up annual expenses of 0.4% of assets.
Clearly, it was foreseeable to these professionals, as well as the company sponsor, that a heavy concentration of plan assets invested in company stock could be disastrous.
Three years of negative stock market returns, coupled with limitations on how the assets can be moved around, have taken so much off principal that it may be all but impossible for the funds to even match the total contributions, let alone show significant appreciation.
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