The peso today has the same value vis--vis the dollar as it did then, and the country is growing briskly.
But hey, this is still remarkable, right, that a simple company has the same value added as an entire country!
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Where this trips up planners is that they will often presume that because an asset received back by a debtor has the same tax value as what the debtor gave up, there could be no fraudulent transfer.
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This is a somewhat beguiling metric to compare companies by -- market cap measures the value of a company's shares available on the market, and not every company has the same proportion of its overall value available in stocks -- but it illustrates well the diametrically opposite directions in which the two mobile phone makers are moving.
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The basic principle at work here is loss aversion: the idea that losing something has a stronger emotional impact than gaining something of the same value.
One has seen its shares appreciate by more than 50%, the other has seen its value fall by over 20% in the same period.
Family income has declined since 2008, while the value of household assets has plummeted over the same period.
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At the same time that the value of women in the marriage market has fallen, so has the value of men.
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If Icahn is indeed on board intending to scuttle the deal, he puts himself on the same side of the table as like-minded value investors he has previously worked with.
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The horn, which is merely agglutinated hair, the same stuff as finger nails, has no pharmacological value.
Taken at face value he has admitted that the fight about same-sex marriage is already over.
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Secondly, the value creation has been bigger for mergers within the same industry than for diversifying acquisitions.
By contrast, Microsoft's value has dropped 8.8% over the same time period.
One might expect this work at least to raise a caution flag, but it has been vociferously attacked on methodological grounds by the same organizations that tout the value of politically congenial research that suffers from more severe methodological shortcomings.
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At the same time, the nutritional value of the news itself has come into some doubt.
It also showed that while the value of what we produce in Wales has stayed broadly the same since 2007 - before the financial crisis - other parts of the UK have grown considerably.
The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.
But Asia has to diversify, because too many countries make the same things and China makes low value-added products cheaper.
Speculation has swirled in recent weeks that the underlying real estate value in a Home Depot transaction might present the same type of appeal to Lampert that it did in the Sears deal.
Citi has lost more than 85% of its value so far in 2009 and is 95% below where it was the same time last year.
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