With government employee pensions skyrocketing, high unemployment compensation debt and an increasing amount of taxpaying businesses fleeing the state, California is learning a hard lesson in fiscal responsibility.

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The merits and drawbacks of league and team stability via the North American model can be debated versus the ruthless competition and elevated levels of player compensation and debt found in European soccer leagues.

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Deferred cash compensation makes employees debt holders, so it ought to reduce risk-taking.

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Wednesday, when the House Financial Services Committee hauls in Paulson and Bernanke, expect the hearing to focus on executive compensation and mortgage debt relief.

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U.S. citizens who reside abroad and earn their living under a currency other than the U.S. dollar are not account holders with the Treasury because they do not receive none interest bearing U.S. Treasury debt as a form of compensation.

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It includes outright gifts and charitable donations, sales of assets for less than fair market value (which constitute a transfer of the amount by which compensation received falls short of asset value), and forgiveness of debt.

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