This reduced net employment within the industry, but freed capital that had been used in the supply chain.

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Also, by cutting tax rates on labor and capital, Reagan freed up venture capital that led to the development of the technology that now drives the U.S. economy.

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The productivity push freed up capital for share buybacks, and the stock price jumped an average of 118% a year from 2009 to 2012.

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They then passed along that freed-up capital to their BHC parents who applied more leverage to that capital.

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He was the 18th capital inmate freed after subsequent DNA testing proved their innocence, according to the New York-based Innocence Project.

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He was taken from his home town of Lemden, where he had been under house arrest, to his house in the capital, Nouakchott, where he was freed.

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They have freed their exchange rates, avoided a dependence on short-term capital flows and steered clear of running up massive current-account deficits.

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He said capital (meaning both money and ideas), when freed to travel at the speed of light, "will go where it is wanted, stay where it is well-treated...." By applying Wriston's Law of capital and talent flow, you can predict the fortunes of countries and companies.

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