In recent years, redistributive monetary policy has benefited finance at the expense of other productive industries.

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Common causes of slipping margins include increased product costs, increased shipping expense, finance costs, sales and discounting or inventory shrinkage due to theft or waste (food business).

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Could it charge the finance costs as an expense?

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If governments really want a scandal to attack, it is the way the finance sector enriches itself at the expense of retail investors.

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For the investment club, it meant the possibility of having a few extra dollars for some hard working finance folks and an all-expense outing at the Cheese Cake Factory.

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Why not, asks Miles Livingston, a finance professor at the University of Florida, define the expense ratio to include them?

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Hong Leong Finance also alleges the US investment firm profited from the products' failure at the expense of investors.

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These hedges effectively convert these variable rate bank loans into fixed rate loans, better matching the interest expense from the loans to the income from the landfill gas projects they finance.

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But since these rents are made at the expense of the pension funds and insurance companies on which industry depends for long-term finance, it is not clear that the economy benefits from the process.

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