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Instead, dollar debasement repels capital and over time, raises prices inflicting a penurious tax on producers.
FORBES: An Honest Politician: Understanding Ben Bernanke
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He founded the Basle Chamber Orchestra in 1926, when he was a penurious 20-year-old, and with the aid of donations from friends almost immediately started commissioning pieces.
ECONOMIST: Paul Sacher
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Only a few generations earlier, their ancestors had been living a desperate, penurious life in the intractable deserts of northern Arabia.
NPR: Armstrong, 'Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time'
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Two years into the intifada, the Islamic group is now a dominant power in the occupied territories, and nowhere more than in the penurious, besieged towns and refugee camps of Gaza.
ECONOMIST: With every Palestinian death, Hamas grows stronger