To a great extent, it is amazing when you think that the circulation of the Journal of Financial Economics at that point in its history was under 1000 subscribers.

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If all this sounds familiar, that is because it is - to a great extent - a re-run of the collapse of Ireland's banks.

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But I have it under control to a great extent.

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Although the 90 Romanian respondents who were interested in working in the UK were more professional and better off than the average respondent in the survey, just under half said it would affect their decision to a great or very great extent.

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To a great extent their existence was because of currency controls on taking cash out of the UK. It was almost impossible to get permission to take out money on your own.

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This boost could outweigh the much-touted negative effect of a shake-out of labour as companies restructure and, in any case, that shake-out might not happen to any great extent if the economy as a whole is recovering, taking incomes and profits up with it.

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Given that it is the banks that create credit and thus the wider money supply they are, to a great extent, the same thing.

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