The asset feeds every system in the financial eco-system.
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Mr. Caswell's case, which was detailed in a page-one Wall Street Journal article in 2011, challenged the U.S. government's asset-forfeiture system, which collects billions of dollars each year of cash, real estate, cars and other assets.
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The law effectively eliminated the old 10% Investment Tax Credit (some of you may still remember those days) as well as the old longer term depreciation, with a new, more attractive shorter recovery period, referred to as the Modified Asset Cost Recovery System (MACRS).
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He is one among thousands of Americans in recent decades who have had a jarring introduction to the federal system of asset seizure.
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Finally, its support of the financial system with massive asset purchases in frozen markets, including commercial paper, mortgage backed securities, and currently Treasury notes.
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The target-date funds which are claiming a growing share of 401(k) dollars use a similar system to determine asset allocation, only a date in the future is used rather than age.
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At the same time, investors are trying to unseat a stubborn management group in the hopes of a takeover offer or asset sales, and a system wide disruption like this certainly hurts its image to potential buyers.
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If a lumber merchant in Philadelphia financed his inventory with a short-term loan, that loan would enter the banking system as an asset and somewhere down the line occasion the issuance of banknotes used to pay the lumberjacks in Wisconsin.
Relevant and recognized working experience at the international level preferably in the United Nations system would be an asset.
Good knowledge of French (as a working language of the United Nations system) would be an asset.
It requires a disciplined strategy with a predetermined performance goal, a logical asset allocation, a proper investment monitoring system and a policy for rebalancing the holdings.
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But when asset prices started to fall, the whole system unravelled.
While the system has been a "precious asset to the university for many, many years, " Harvard has "also spent more on libraries than we've really needed to to accomplish our goal, " said Mr. Garber, the provost.
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In order to get the nonprofit system converted into an investor-owned asset, Cerberus only had to commit to making certain capital improvements and to keep the hospitals open for three years.
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Then, if you look at leverage and asset quality, for instance, you see a healthy system with low stress points.
Let me quickly mention one of the key side effects that concerns me about very large scale asset purchases: the removal of collateral from the financial system.
The Center believes that the B-2 constitutes an ever more important national asset and it recommends that procurement and deployment of this system proceed at the fastest possible pace.
Expanding the ECB balance sheet put a floor under asset prices and restored confidence in the entire European financial system, much as had happened in the U.S. in 2009.
In other words, the banking system has been sterilizing or neutralizing the impact of the asset purchases on the money supply.
Since 1700, and indeed earlier, banks operating a gold standard system have generally held some form of debt as a reserve asset.
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We now know there was at least one big problem with this narrow approach: it encouraged the Bank of England to ignore a lot of other important stuff such as rising asset prices and the build-up of huge debts within the banking system, which weren't causing inflation but turned out to pose a massive threat to our economic stability.
When housing crashed, it was the lack of new asset backed securities that pushed the economy into recession by freezing up the banking system and destroying consumer and small business credit markets.
Note that, in warning against excessive concentrations or common exposures across the banking system, regulators need not make a judgment about whether a particular asset class is mispriced--although rapid changes in asset prices or risk premiums may increase the level of concern.
It is this feature alone that allows users to maintain the same financial privacy as physical cash today and it is this feature that will also lead to liberating advancements such as a thriving and interconnected System D, unhampered and undiluted freedom of speech, and superior asset management that can truly be said to be off-the-grid.
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So to help support these efforts, we are going to wind down the Troubled Asset Relief Program -- or TARP -- the fund created to stabilize the financial system so banks would lend again.
Securitised subprime mortgages destroyed the asset base of banks, and with it, the trust and confidence upon which the financial system depends.
Not only were asset prices rising even faster than debt but the use of derivatives was spreading risk across the system and, in particular, away from the banks, which had capital ratios well above the regulatory minimum.
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