In tandem, governments should switch the burden of taxation from consumption to capital by reducing value-added taxes and increasing taxes on capital and wealth.
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The broader issue is simple: the developed world has too much debt and to reduce this debt, they want to create inflation and depreciate the value of their currencies (thereby reducing the value of the debt).
Moreover, a strengthening dollar weakens overseas figures by reducing the value of profit and sales.
But Congress has already raised rates on capital gains and dividends since the TPC estimate, reducing the value of the preference.
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The resulting inflation will bump up tax revenues, while reducing the value of spending, thus leaving enough money to service the debt.
It has hit many people retiring in its aftermath, by reducing the value of the financial assets they use to buy a pension.
Some are already inserting themselves between incumbent banks and their customers, in effect hijacking the relationship and reducing the value of the banks' consumer franchises.
It may seem unfair, but our policy makers are intent on rewarding risk-taking by reducing the value of money, making it cheap and easier to borrow.
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After a hurricane, for example, large trees that are snapped or sheared often become pulp wood rather than saw-timber, reducing their value by two-thirds or more.
And, of course, there is one big way that QE can harm the economy: by reducing the value of the dollar, thus increasing both inflation and inflationary expectations.
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But if this NCO class of the corporate world is allowed to absent itself from training programmes it will takes a wealth of knowledge and experience away with it, thereby reducing the value of formal training for everyone else.
To make matters worse, the real estate market crumbled, greatly reducing the value of the big box stores that are the hallmark of both Kmart and Sears. (Sears has sold some assets this year, and still lists 88 properties for sale and lease in closed buildings.) Lampert has always been capricious pushing out his chief executives, changing how much control he personally wields.
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Inflation helps reduce the total debt stock over time, by reducing the real value of debt.
The fall in inflation, which is driving down future nominal returns and so reducing the prospective value of the endowment policies, also means that homebuyers are paying less in mortgage-interest payments.
It's a long shot, but any success in treating stroke would have immense value in reducing human suffering.
It adds that another option is to mitigate the impact of high food prices by reducing other taxes, including Value Added Tax, but given the government's poor finances this option is not a serious one.
For Internal purposes, what we also refer to as Enterprise 2.0, the top three measurable business benefits lie in increasing speed of access to knowledge (77% of respondents agree on achieving value), reducing communications costs (60%), and increasing speed of access to internal experts.
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Finding reasons to ignore or diminish it amounts to reducing or negating the importance of value.
Reducing net debt will boost equity value in the absence of any dilution from the capital raises.
While bonds might lose value during a market crash, they will lose much less value than stocks, reducing overall losses.
As the American Medical Association and others have pointed out, the board is charged with the contradictory mandate of cutting Medicare reimbursement rates to health-care providers, without reducing benefits or finding new ways to increase value.
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Granted, this is after wiping away tens of billions in market value from Apple in recent weeks and reducing it (momentarily) to only the second most valuable company in the world.
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By focusing on top-line value to readily implement new solutions while reducing costs and the infrastructure footprint at the same time, a new IT leader can set a course for double-barreled value creation that earns him or her status as a true peer to the rest of the c-suite of executives.
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Of course, by reducing consumption through the Controller, they would create enormous value for someone else.
Later, the smaller account value could be converted to a Roth, reducing the taxes involved.
Prior to straying off course earlier in the previous decade, Toyota provided value in many of its products by relentlessly reducing costs while maximizing benefits to the consumer.
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One can create extraordinary value by either increasing the perceived value through quality, exclusivity, and desirability or by reducing the price.
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Measuring all tariffs as a percentage of the goods' value is a prerequisite for further progress in talks about reducing trade barriers for agricultural goods.
If the opportunity arose for Berkshire to be able to buy back shares below its book value, some cash would be used up, thereby reducing assets, but each remaining shareholder would represent a slightly greater ownership percentage of the company and the intrinsic value of the remaining shares would climb.
That means taking actions such as reducing the high rate of black children born to unmarried parents and placing more value on education, he says.
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