There are times it makes sense to pay extra to carry a second, overlapping policy, notes John Bowe, a Washington-based consultant at Watson Wyatt.
The company changed its revenue recognition policy last year, he notes, which increases headwinds to growth in 2011.
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Danny Sriskandarajah, until recently of the Institute for Public Policy Research in London, notes another concern about changing public moods.
But as Progressive Policy Institute economist Michael Mandel notes, those foreign profits are already taxed by the countries in which the money is earned.
And, as my Tax Policy Center colleague Gene Steuerle often notes, putting so much of government on autopilot has important implications for democracy as well as budgets.
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The BOE's next governor told a parliamentary committee that the U.K. should debate its methods of setting monetary policy, though he sounded skeptical notes about any radical changes.
So the opportunities and the preconditions are certainly there, provided African policy makers speedily seize them, as the book notes.
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Tracking back to Google, Droid-Life notes that Google's price protection policy might have you covered for some cash-back, as well.
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In France, he explains, the country stopped all project finance in December, pending the unveiling of a revised policy for any project above 100 KW, which as he notes is not really very bid.
Mr. Fisher notes that all states labor under the same Fed monetary policy and interest rates and federal regulation, but all states have not performed equally well.
Connecticut is one of only 18 states that assess personal property tax on motor vehicles, according to David Brunori, a public policy professor at George Washington University and contributing editor of State Tax Notes.
About the policy response from the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve, Huether notes that the stimulus package produced a beneficial uptick in demand, but its temporary impact has limited the proper distribution of profits that resulted.
Schmidt notes that he has been working on a book on foreign policy and the impact of information.
Except for Arizona, notes Muzaffar Chishti, Director of New York University's Migration Policy Center, he can't think of a single state or locality that has taken upon itself to enforce federal immigration law without first entering a memorandum of understanding with Uncle Sam.
As the piece notes, this is hardly the first time bail-out concessions and other policy changes have been extracted with threats of ECB retribution.
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But he also notes that his target relates to what the budget would be based on current policy, not today's budget adjusted for inflation.
Critics might fret that the recent slowdown in the growth in Japan's monetary base (banks' reserves at the central bank plus notes and coins in circulation) suggests that the Bank of Japan has tightened policy.
But the brouhaha arose on Sunday over a revision in the wording of Facebook's policy over what happens to profile content--shared items, blog post-like "notes, " photos--when members delete their accounts.
Yet the same economist notes that Dubai, like the other small emirates in the federation, carries an excellent insurance policy.
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"From a very high-level public policy perspective, Congress and the FCC want to see a couple of new players make it, " notes Ellison.
Mr. Zhang said he is aware of how Japanese firms lost large sums on high-profile foreign investments such as Rockefeller Center and Pebble Beach Golf Course in the late 1980s and notes that the failures had to do the volatility of the yen and Japan's monetary policy.
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