No, Goldman Sachs and Ben Bernanke are not an Illuminati planning a takeover of the free market system.

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After reading this entry, I am compelled to purchase the book and get a better understanding of not only the history of Anheuser-Busch, the takeover by InBev but also the dealings of the Busch family.

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Just recently the parents of the Toronto Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange scuttled their deal when it became clear it would not get the support necessary, and earlier this year Australian regulators rejected a proposed takeover of ASX by the Singapore Exchange.

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The position he'd been offered in a future takeover by Barclays had not been attractive, he added, and Scott-Barrett presumably believed he would not have held a suitably senior position under rival suitors, Royal Bank of Scotland, either.

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In 1965, when some argued that Medicare represented a government takeover of health care, members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, did not back down.

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The CBI supports some of the report's recommendations but is warning that changing takeover rules would be a "big step" which should not be rushed and that remuneration of company directors should be a matter for shareholders, not government.

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The French government can do little directly to prevent the Arcelor takeover, since it is neither a shareholder nor regulator of the firm, and steel is not on its recently published list of protected sectors.

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The deal, which will not permit a takeover, revises current Australian law that currently limits a single foreign holding to 25 percent and a group maximum of 35 percent.

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