The recent paper losses on gold are unlikely to have a big impact on the universities.
The brothers used Cayman Islands corporations, options and warrants to produce paper losses that offset all their taxable gains.
Focusing on paper losses means you tend to ignore the consecutive years of double-digit gains before and after the down year.
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Soon thereafter, the Internal Revenue Service got wise to the hundreds of entrepreneurs like Hawkins who were using all kinds of tax shelters to generate paper losses.
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Better still, I was also sitting on some paper losses elsewhere. (You are, too, unless you are either out of the market or a genius.) I sold some stock mutual funds at a loss and immediately bought similar but not identical funds.
The Times previously tried to sell the Globe in 2009 as the paper made losses.
He worries that the extent of the problem will tempt America to paper over losses and keep sickly lenders on life-support, as Japan did.
Worse, banks have come to rely on issuing their own preference shares to raise capital, and will find that harder if holders of Fannie's and Freddie's paper suffer losses.
And most of the shares at the offering price went to the institutional investors, who now face paper or real losses on those shares.
The resultant growth in online revenues allowed the paper to keep overall annual revenue losses well below the national average-about 2% in 2012.
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In a tough economy, the tax deduction for the NOL can help you recover some of your losses: when you lose on paper, you can still win.
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While most Italian households typically hold government paper to maturity, they could suffer hefty losses if bond prices continue to fall, as they have in recent months.
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.
By contrast, in the UK it is Treasury policy to be less willing to bail out banks in those ghastly circumstances (the whole point of the Treasury's recent white paper on banking reform is to restructure banking so that in future crises more of the losses will fall on creditors and less on taxpayers).
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On February 22, 2013, Frederic Mishkin, Peter Hooper, James Hamilton and David Greenlaw published Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy, an 86-page paper that predicts the Fed will stare down the barrel of a few hundred billion dollars of losses when interest rates rise.
Banks have picked up some of the slack, but many are reluctant to lend because their capital bases are already suffering from loan losses, and they are uneasy about the ability of many customers to roll over the paper.
The paper argues that as much as two-thirds of the gains from trade are eliminated due to the losses associated with these redistributions, and that this amounts to a serious problem.
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