They're interested in avoiding systemic crises that would hurt the little guy as much as the big guy, that would hurt everybody.
As destructive as raging inflation would be, why would it hurt the big financial institutions?
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"It will probably not hurt the big fortunes too much but effectively it's a concern, " concedes Lagneau.
The unstoppable ascent of the new carriers may, however, hurt the big flag-carriers less than might be expected.
In derivatives, for instance, the common wisdom is that big dealers will be hurt as trades migrate to central clearing and exchanges.
In other words, tax big companies and you hurt small companies, too.
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The U.S. economy shrank by an annualized rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter, its first contraction since the middle of 2009, hurt by big cuts in defense spending, falling exports and sluggish growth in company inventories.
Those include the rise in gas prices, which hurt sales of big, highly profitable trucks.
Big retail footfalls have been hurt by high rents, overcrowding of malls and a credit squeeze.
Trying to be greedy and capture follow-through in big size is only getting people hurt.
Higher interest rates should hurt deals, but big mergers are being announced every week.
And it does not hurt that hiring is a big market that has led investors to assign very high valuations to HR software companies.
And the big fear is that that will particular hurt those homeowners, those communities that are often have hard times getting access to the formal credit markets.
An entrance of big foreign supermarkets, she said, would hurt small-time Indian retailers.
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If the legislature votes to shut down the plant, Entergy stands to be the big loser, but ratepayers could also get hurt.
While all this was going on, the bursting of the stockmarket bubble was beginning to hurt the pension funds of the Big Three.
Yesterday, I took at look at the big parts of the economy that will be hurt by the timing of Hurricane Sandy.
Mayweather looked to hurt De la Hoya with a big right hand with 20 seconds of the fight remaining and both fighters were swinging wildly when the final bell came.
Our daughter loves to sing along on "Great Big World, " so that didn't hurt its chances.
Our lack of size hurt us against a team with the big men of Gonzaga.
History says that gas hikes always hurt Wal-Mart (and other big-box stores such as Lowe's).
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And even if such a scheme did hurt foreign speculators, they are hardly big players these days.
But higher fuel prices will hurt auto sales--particularly sales of big vehicles.
Keep in mind that the desertion could get even worse if the congressional greens--led by new Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman--impose stiffer taxes on gas, which will hurt the guzzlers that have generated most of Big Three profits.
The hurt put on the Jazz, fresh off a big win over Memphis on Saturday, was worse.
The big flows remain foreign direct investment and they know they would hurt themselves more by taxing that, than they would benefit from the weaker currency.
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Just last week US Attorney General Eric Holder gave his reasons for the lack of prosecution saying the hesitation to go after big banks is partially out of concern that doing so could hurt the economy.
Symphony orchestras in other big cities are feeling similar constraints, as the economic downturn hurt many endowments and donations even as costs kept rising, said Robert Flanagan, a Stanford University economist who has written a book about symphony finances.
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