Since 1999, the rise in the value of Americans' homes has more than offset the loss on their shares and the latter have also recovered about half their losses.

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Hall and Reis note in their paper that this latter option of smoothing out profits and losses by varying dividends to the Treasury may not be possible if the Treasury decided to prevent the Fed from accumulating too much profit income without handing it over to the rest of the US government.

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The latter involves a Vermont woman who was never reimbursed for her losses.

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Jon Nadler, Senior Metals Analyst at Kitco Metals said that, on a day when the metals complex was witnessing losses in all but palladium and rhodium the 6.81% intra-day gain in the latter was most likely indicative of the possible effects of the creation and launch of the Deutsche Bank exchange-traded instrument.

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