Since you are essentially buying a policy that benefits your family, those premium payments would normally be considered gifts to your beneficiaries.
Guaranteed issue incentivizes people to forgo buying a policy until they get sick and need coverage (and then drop the policy after they get well).
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The Fed conducts traditional monetary policy by buying or selling short-term Treasury securities in the open market.
The Meadowhall acquisition is the result of a relatively new policy of buying into property around the world.
To its south, officials say, Europe has leveraged its domestic buying power, trade policy and aid to offer help to post-Arab Spring countries like Tunisia, Jordan and Egypt.
The Fed itself has targeted the housing sector through monetary policy, buying residential mortgage-backed securities in order to push interest rates down and provide further relief to mortgage-holders.
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The Federal Reserve uses quantitative easing, a policy of buying bonds, to increase the money supply and improve liquidity in the financial system in the hope of sparking economic growth and supporting employment.
In theory this policy of buying and cancelling some of the debt would reduce Greece's indebtedness, because the market price of its bonds is a fraction of the amount originally borrowed: if the EFSF paid 50m euros for Greek bonds with a face value of 100m euros, and agreed that Greece should have an obligation to replay only the 50m euros, that would reduce Greece's indebtedness by 50m euros.
Likewise, buying a health-insurance policy from a college generally isn't a qualified expense but a parent might have an argument if the college requires all students to have coverage as a condition of enrollment, says Andrea Feirstein, managing director at AKF Consulting Group, which advises states that administer 529s.
Those who see higher prices said the underlying fundamentals of ultra-loose monetary policy and strong physical buying interest, especially from China, may limit losses.
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The Bank of Japan relies on the asset buying program as its main economic policy tool because Japanese interest rates are already near zero percent.
Japan's gold-selling boom could soon turn to gold-buying, analysts say, if policy makers succeed in their goal of ending 15 years of deflation and sparking a new round of inflation.
While much of the developed world was either cutting rates or buying bonds to further ease monetary policy, vast swaths of the developing world were increasing rates to rein in inflation.
The company might be generating cash flow but many investors like to see management pay this cash to shareholders and many investors take the dividend policy into consideration before buying stocks, especially in consumer related sectors.
There was also clearly a certain amount of safe-haven buying by those concerned with monetary policy in the United States and loosening of monetary policy by the European Central Bank, encouraging purchases of physical silver in bar or coin form.
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Bond investors are worrying over how long the Fed will keep buying as they await a statement on policy Wednesday from the U.S. central bank.
This would be for the European Central Bank, in an explicit policy decision, to start buying distressed eurozone sovereign debt in a much more aggressive way.
So if you were worried about a sudden collapse in the stockmarket, buying gold could have acted as an insurance policy, but only if you were quick on your feet.
Supachai, who doubles as one of six deputy PMs, called for an expansionary policy that would involve the government buying up 10% of non-performing loans and boosting exports by weakening the baht - which doesn't wash with Tarrin.
Wohlner, like many advisors, recommends buying insurance as insurance--meaning a term policy--rather than as an investment.
To implement such a policy, they should currently be busy secretly buying all the gold they can.
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The European Central Bank only has a monetary mandate and even its members often disagree over policy, with its German contingent generally opposing buying bonds in the manner the ECB has been doing lately.
As it stands the apps2sd policy of Google is idiotic and discourages people from buying costly apps.
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When their buying finally attracts world attention, they would announce the new policy.
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If there was a better internal memory policy by Google then people like me would be buying hundreds of dollars worth of professional applications and internal app purchases.
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ChartObject Federal Funds Target RateAccording to Investopedia, quantitative easing is a government monetary policy occasionally used to increase the money supply by buying securities, such as U.S. Treasury Bonds, in the open market.
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The re-election of President Obama means a greater likelihood of continuity in U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy, including a continuation of the bond-buying program known as quantitative easing, said Anne-Laure Tremblay, precious-metals strategist at BNP Paribas.
The Alcohol Bill is part of the Scottish government's attempt to address alcohol-related harm by implementing a minimum pricing policy, banning drink promotions, raising the age for buying drink and introducing a social responsibility fee for retailers.
But that's partly due to the Federal Reserve's policy of maintaining historically low interest rates through its bond-buying program, he thinks.
Every time an ordinary sick person get carded for buying cold medicine, she is a victim of this second kind of policy error.
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