Daily Small Cap Bear 3x Shares shares are currently trading down about 5.5% on the day.
No one argues that, when it comes to health care, small businesses bear a proportionately greater burden than the Wal-Marts of the world.
Despite repeated opposition claims that small business will bear a heavy burden as a result of the Affordable Care Act, a study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine conducted by the non-partisan, non-profit Rand Corporation and based on sophisticated computer modeling, reveals something quite to the contrary.
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"A tax structure in which wage earners, pensioners and a small percentage of companies bear the overwhelming burden is not sustainable, " he says.
The Clinton holdovers who still run the Central Intelligence Agency bear no small measure of responsibility for serious shortcomings in these and other areas.
California's 33 prisons and associated camps therefore bear no small responsibility for the state's recurring budget crises, and the resultant crunch on school and university funding.
"I am confident that when I ask the relatively prosperous to bear a small burden for one year, just one year, they will do so cheerfully, " he said.
In the north it made small advances, which may bear fruit in the long-term.
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Brown bear populations are small and fragmented in southern, central and western Europe.
On the way out of the party, we were given a small figure of a grizzly bear in which to hide a stick of antiperspirant.
Wal-mart might kick back prices past what your business can bear, but small businesses can build customer loyalty by reaching out to community groups and hosting special events.
The device is aimed at small businesses which are unwilling to bear costs associated with keeping cash registers.
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The reluctance so far of the small investor to turn into a bear despite the veiled advice of Mr Greenspan is something of a mystery.
Small-business owners, who would bear much of the cost, tend to be Republicans anyway.
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He managed only small losses during the three-year bear, and I lost 74%.
"The polar bear does not have a small wild population, it does not have a restricted area of distribution and no marked decline has been observed, " Environment Canada says on its website.
Monthly-dividend payers can be concentrated in the same sector, may have high correlations during a bear market, and are usually small or mid-cap securities with larger debt obligations.
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Historically the first to bear the brunt of a bad economy, small-caps are often the first to bounce back.
Down 80% in the bear market, it makes an exceptional line of small, fuel-efficient cars (and also now Jaguar, which it bought from Ford in 2008).
Moreover the kind of cost-benefit assessments agencies do are indifferent to the individuals (like small business and their would-be employees) forced to privately bear the costs of those public benefits.
The friendly neighbourhood storekeeper, for those unwilling to bear the trip or the gossip, will also readily deliver such small purchases home, at no extra fee, as many times a day as he is called upon to -- perhaps the biggest reason why Indian households remember their grocery needs only from one day to another.
The surge, then, may be too small to make a decisive impact and yet too large for the American armed forces to bear.
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To be fair, Hulbert does note that he was looking at a small sample size and that there have been instances where the CAPE ratio has stayed at high levels before a bear market set in.
Foreign governments and nongovernmental organizations have made no secret of their desire to use the Convention on Small Arms as a means of overriding Americans' deeply cherished, if hotly contested, right to own and bear arms.
It cuts between a small boy beating a bigger opponent in a soccer match, short versus tall players in a basketball game, a bear being scared off by a beaver and cartoon character Popeye punching Bluto into mid-air.
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