Smart communities should become their own REITS: asset-backed smart domicile securities that comport, for example, with all those gated communities around the world where locally-produced energy can be amortized, quantified, and the carbon footprints micromanaged for cost savings and greater energy efficiency.

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Through a smart bit of asset flipping, it was the only bank that profited from the ill-fated takeover of ABN Amro, a Dutch bank, in 2007.

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Credit Suisse analysts Arun Jayaram and Eduardo Royes say the asset acquisition that HERO announced earlier this month was a smart one.

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The interest in the video is the idea that payment (in this case, tipping) could be a smart-system transfer of a non-money asset, if valued by the payee.

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