First, why can't SSE subsidise its customers from profits made in other parts of the business?

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Investment banks have been unable to mitigate the effect of the trading-profits drop by generating fees in other business lines.

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Analysts said the record profits were largely driven by gains in that sector offsetting other parts of the business which are not showing drastic change.

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Anybody, bu putting me and Drexel out of business, the other big firms gained billions in fees and trading profits that would have gone to Drexel.

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Other startups in the space are following a similar business model, whereas a portion of profits are donated to charity.

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Indeed, the advocates for parochial special interests who generally hold ranking positions on relevant congressional committees can safely be expected to tell the President what he wants to hear: It is okay to expose U.S. taxpayers to multi-billion dollar losses in order to subsidize a handful of politically influential agribusiness, banking, energy and other interests anxious to obtain risk-free profits from business done with a bankrupt Moscow center.

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After sinking a lot of capital into the project of building the shared resource, other companies will be able to set lower prices and undercut the first business out of its profits.

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