By that he meant that it has no internal rate of return like stocks and bonds do.

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The NYC crowd in attendance went wild: The insinuation was he had no idea what that meant, but it paid well and heck, even this wanderer could fit in there.

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But he claimed new cross-border rules meant that it was no longer possible and patients had to be referred to hospitals locally or, if that was not possible, elsewhere in Wales.

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It was unclear whether he meant he had not filed returns or simply has no money to pay.

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The climbers were on a steep slope where there was snow, which meant an avalanche was possible, but there was no reason to suspect it would happen then, he told CNN affiliate BFM TV.

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Asked if this meant the government was no further forward in fixing the UK's economy than when it started, he said underlying structural problems had been worse than initially thought and he was now "less optimistic" about its long-term ability to bounce back.

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