It's a shame that behavioral economics has become associated with ineffectual nanny-state efforts like the big-soda ban, because it's actually a tremendously interesting field of study, one that offers widely applicable insights into human nature.
But there are two big exceptions to the ban on using passive losses to offset regular income before you sell.
They have long supported big hospitals' efforts to ban doctor-owned specialty hospitals.
Emperor Gold Mining, which runs Vatukoula mine, faces big losses because of a trade ban by Australian trade unions.
In Germany bankrupts can face a lifetime ban on senior executive positions at big companies.
The overturning of the ban is likely to provide a big boost to Samsung ahead of the Christmas shopping season.
The money is no big deal for the billionaire Rattner, but the ban seems unconscionable to him.
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When Boise State agreed to stay in the Mountain West, instead of moving to the Big East, the conference relented and lifted the ban on the Broncos' blue-on-blue look.
But he's hoping the court action striking down the ban doesn't distract attention from the big picture of eating healthy.
Such a ban has been a policy goal of the two big hospital lobbies (AHA, FAH) for years.
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Since the ban was introduced, African countries have built up big stockpiles of ivory, much of it confiscated from poachers.
Birnbaum further suggested that the environmental and health harm that big soda has caused makes it worthy of its own advertising ban, comparing it to the cigarette industry.
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One of the big major running stories of the month, the live cattle ban to Indonesia, has revealed the divide between city and country - although everyone has been in agreement about the grotesqueness of the footage in the Four Corners report.
He says a big reason the 2006 effort didn't succeed was that the ban simply went too far.
The postseason ban means the Buckeyes can't play for the Big Ten title or Bowl Championship Series title next year.
Averting such a disaster will take big changes: more people contributing, less generous pensions and a ban on early retirement.
These moves may seem small-bore compared to gun laws in many other countries, but they are a very big deal here, and it is hard to see how the ban on assault rifles will get past Republican (and indeed some Democratic) opposition in Congress.
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The two big hospital lobbies, the AHA and FAH, have been trying to ban physician ownership for years.
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As far as competition, big hotels are trying to fend off HomeAway by in some markets trying to get legislation passed to ban vacation rentals.
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But do note that any ban would only apply to the US market and the rest of the world is still a pretty big place.
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