Artificially low interest rates adversely affect the structure of production and cause recession when interest rates rise and bubbles burst.
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One of the items regulators have been looking is a controversial Chinese corporate structure, Variable Interest Entity (VIE).
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As owners of income property, they deducted the expenses of maintenance, mortgage interest and depreciation of the structure.
But the Merck-bound scientist's main interest has been in the structure and function of proteins, the building blocks of all living things and the basis for most drugs.
Its model is "without the conflicts of interest that are inherent in the structure of most Wall Street firms, " Chief Executive David Pottruck was quoted saying late last year.
The reason that secured credit cards are a good and inexpensive option is because they are reported to the credit bureaus on a monthly basis, and they have a low fee structure and annual percentage rates of interest.
The structure of the eurozone, with one interest rate for all, enabled countries like Spain to embark on a construction boom.
No matter the outcome, the dispute has become a catalyst for change in a sport known for a complex management structure, heavy bureaucracy and conflicts of interest.
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In addition to being a costly employment policy, tenure also results in a reward structure that is largely misaligned with the interest of the public, as tenure rewards research and public stature, while it punishes teaching.
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To complicate matters, thanks to variations in the structure of economies, a given change in interest rates may have quite different effects in two different countries.
Other rules constraining law firm structure, such as rigid rules on conflicts of interest and restrictions on cross-border practice, may also fall.
Over the years there has been extensive critical commentary regarding whether the existing mutual fund regulatory structure that permits uniquely incestuous relationships and conflicts of interest adequately protects investors.
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Of the four, Amgen was willing to help Tularik straighten out its capital structure by buying out a major investor who had lost interest, notes the Deloitte report.
Effectively the VIE structure means that equity holders have a somewhat indirect financial interest in the revenue and earnings stream and do not actually have a claim on the assets of the company in question.
In the current low interest rate environment, intergenerational sales of family businesses are particularly easy to structure.
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Today, with interest rates at multi decade lows, higher equity exposure may be the appropriate structure.
The source of malinvestment, according to the Austrian theory, is the systematic distortion of the structure of production that has its origins in government manipulation of the interest rate.
To condense his subject into manageable chunks, Mr Winchester uses Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a structure: the infant is a metaphor for man's first interest in the ocean, the schoolboy represents its exploration, and so on.
They should vary the capital structure as their businesses change and markets prefer debt or equity, or a interest rates fluctuate.
Mr Cooper said, given the cuts imposed by central government, "this new structure will help us to do our utmost to protect frontline services in the interest of local people".
Today, there are 25 countries around the world that have adopted the REIT (or REIT-like) structure as a tax-efficient way for small investors to achieve the many benefits of owning an indirect interest in high-quality, well-located and professionally-managed income-producing real estate.
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