Overall, I continue to believe that there is no evidence that high capital ratios prevent banks from failing so the basic premise behind these rules is questionable.

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These are basic rules so obvious they are almost not worth mentioning.

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Well, now I wonder just what emphasis these schools provide on something so basic.

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Why was an effort to prevent bribery and corruption abroad so threatening to these corporations that they had to challenge the basic premise of public disclosures?

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And I think they have a right to expect basic consumer protections on all of these products that are so important to their lives.

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The basic idea behind Big Data systems is to breakdown these traditional schemas so that data can be queried and analyzed by any number of factors.

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