Not to say that shareholder executive fleecing of listed Japanese companies is unknown, or even rare.
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Maryland couldn't balance its budget last year, so the state tried to close the shortfall by fleecing the wealthy.
For far too long, workers have relied upon spoon-fed retirement industry advice which aided and abetted employer fleecing of plans.
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The trouble is that, in a globalised economy, policies aimed at fleecing companies will fail to spread the rewards more widely.
In 1929 only a small part of the population was worth fleecing.
Although some of the false claims came from genuine medical-equipment suppliers, other firms were simply fronts set up for the purpose of fleecing the programme.
While there are billions to be earned from fleecing investors, far lesser amounts remain to reward those who seek to protect them or recover assets.
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He notes that when it comes to fleecing investors, Wall Street has certainly not been put out of business by the financial reform bill that passed recently.
To be sure, not every high-profile prosecution ended up with jail time, and most businesspeople have enough common sense and decency to avoid fleecing investors while making a living.
While Congress and Wall Street argue over regulations to keep Wall Street from fleecing the public and getting us into another mess, the real issue of financial education is being overlooked.
They are directly protecting millions of Americans from the ravages of the financial services juggernaut, which keeps on fleecing people through risky yield-oriented vehicles, structured products and 401(k) plans loaded with middlemen fees.
Romney simply having wanted to do it the normal way (you know, without the fleecing of secured creditors, gifting the automakers to the UAW) whereby the company continues to operate while restructuring its debt.
If European politicians don't begin to tackle the laborious task of creating polities based on popular consultation and accountability, the EU will ultimately founder--and it won't be because some local restaurant is fleecing confused customers.
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