That includes everything from a mundane money market fund to something as complex as a Madoff-linked bank note.

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Another month passed before Roddy Boyd linked to the DuLong note on his blog, The Financial Investigator.

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"It follows that economic development and personal income must not account for the happiness that they are so often linked to, " the academics note.

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The city's obesity rate is rising, and studies have linked sugary drinks to weight gain, they note.

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One thing to note is how many of the ideas below can be linked by their desire to make the shopping experience more enjoyable, be it through speeding up payments and helping customers skip queues, providing a uniquely quiet and relaxed retail environment, or gamifying shopping by enabling customers to pay with points earned exercising.

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This note has a term of six years, is principal-protected, and the return is linked to the value of a global index basket made up of the Dow, the Nikkei, and the Euro Stoxx 50.

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