Either from increased borrowing, or increased taxes, which both take an equal amount of resources and spending out of the private economy as they finance increased government spending, or from printing more dollars, which just creates inflation (devaluing private spending by an equal amount).
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That has only prolonged the nation's economic anemia and piled up an untenable amount of private and public IOUs.
In terms of methodology, the main metric for inclusion is the amount of private donations received in the latest available fiscal year.
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"A large amount of private collections have been put in the record office with the presumption that they would be freely available to the public, " he said.
Cooper worries that DoubleClick's massive amount of private data about users' online behavior could be linked to Google's reams of search data to create detailed profiles of individuals.
Whether Operation Compassion remains on the Forbes list, which is based on the amount of private donations received, will depend in part on the extent of the revision for 2011.
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But Triago estimates cash distributions to private equity investors will amount to only 9% of total capital commitments in 2011, still less than the estimated amount of money they will need to put up through cash calls.
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Citing questions over the accounting, Forbes last year took Islamic Relief and Seattle-area Crista Ministries off its largest-charities list, which is assembled on the basis of the amount of private donations received in the latest fiscal year.
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The amount of private work being taken on had not increased, it found, the rate of decline in productivity had slowed, the ratio of full-time consultants to total staff in the NHS had risen and pay rises not linked to performance had slowed.
If Congress does that together in a bipartisan way, we could leverage a small amount of private -- of public money to spur private investment and private hiring to do -- to put people to work right away repairing roads, building roads, bridges and airports.
As for Social Security, Ryan modestly scaled back his original proposal by reducing the amount invested in private accounts, from one-half to one-third of payroll taxes.
Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
This already seems to have happened with hedge funds and commodities, and it may be about to happen with private equity, given the amount of capital that it has recently raised.
For weeks, there has been a clear gap between the amount of debt relief for Greece that the private sector would "voluntarily" sign up to, and the amount needed for the IMF or anyone else to be able to say, with a straight face, that Greek sovereign debt was on a sustainable path.
The EQC pays the first 100, 000 New Zealand dollars of repairs and private insurers pay anything over this amount.
If the student goes to an out-of-state or private college or university, an equal amount of money will be distributed.
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The cost issue is complicated, however, because Medicare and private insurers generally reimburse hospitals the same amount for laparoscopic, robotic and open surgeries.
That said, the amount of debt maturing for private-equity owned companies pales into insignificance compared with the debts of banks that have to be repaid or refinanced in 2012.
According to Ian Shepherdson, of High Frequency Economics, if they had simply adjusted by the same amount as last June, private sector payrolls would have risen by 221, 000, not 57, 000.
Leaving aside the monetization of debt, using taxes or savings to handle a large fiscal deficit reduces the amount of money available to private investment and therefore curtails the creation of new businesses and limits much-needed increases in productivity.
The investment strategy pursued by Reijtenbagh was thus hugely leveraged, given the amount of borrowed funds the underlying private equity funds used to make their portfolio investments.
He very much supports the creation of an infrastructure bank, which has bipartisan support, which would leverage very relatively minimal amount of taxpayer dollars to allow private companies to hire folks to rebuild our infrastructure, which in turn will help create a more solid foundation for economic growth and job creation.
"Look at the amount of money that pours in from private people, private citizens, " he said.
Opponents of the controversial bill argued that it would give an unreasonable amount of power over the internet to private authority.
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There's a tremendous amount of capital now going into the private space industry on the basis of somebody having done it.
We put a huge amount of effort into keeping patient information private.
You do the math: a private jet makes sense if it saves you x amount of time and your time is valued at y.
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But part of the problem has also been the limitations on the amount of stock U.S. private-equity firms can own in a bank without triggering regulator concerns.
Sentator Franken referred to a growing unease about the amount of data we are storing with private corporations and the lack of protection for it.
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