To explain: if the purchases are sterilised, that means that every euro the ECB puts into the system buying government bonds will be offset by the ECB taking money out elsewhere, so the overall stock of money remains unchanged.
He compared buying the Windows operating system to buying a new car.
Fast-forward to November, the Fed is posed to inject more liquidity into the system by buying US Treasurys.
Users are already accustomed to its online payment system for buying goods, which gives an advantage to Amazon.
Yet there is no national payments system for buying goods online, there are few reliable distribution channels for delivering them, and online buyers are not confident about security.
The PayPalX conference in late October brought 2, 000 developers together to discuss innovation in money ( iconcessionstand, a system for buying food through the mobile at live events, won the developer grand prize).
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"The house buying system as it stands does not work for buyers and sellers, " Mr Ockenden says.
Twitter plans to offer an automated ad-buying system for small businesses that should lead to a torrent of new advertising for the platform.
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For remote deposit of checks, Wells Fargo again built its own system rather than buying a check reader and software from a vendor.
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It has also moved to a centralised European buying system, meaning that it would have a "product offer that did not meet UK customers' needs".
After five years of trying to sell ads on television using the automated buying system that works so well for its signature search ads, Google has finally given up.
For Koso to integrate his phone system to his CRM system he got lucky: he was able to replace his entire phone system with a new one that had this capability at the same time he was buying a CRM system.
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This is one of the best games ever made, and by itself almost warrants buying the system.
Again, each payment goes toward buying the system outright, and a typical family will have paid for it after 18 months of use.
Even if interest rates hit zero, they argue, central banks can use other measures, such as flooding the banking system with money, buying government bonds or intervening in the currency markets.
Still, both VMware and Parallels argue that their software is a bargain compared with buying an operating system.
The current system relies on business owners buying BlingTags and distributing them to customers, who then affix the stickers to their phones.
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There is little sign lawmakers and advocacy groups on either side of the debate are willing to alter their stances, though room for agreement may exist in some areas, such as requiring states to increase their submission of mental-health records to the background-check system used to screen people buying guns from federally licensed dealers.
Mr Hindery recalls that when he was buying a cable system owned by Jack Kent Cooke, another colourful mogul, he was presented with a price based on subscriber numbers that had been heavily inflated by the inclusion of prisoners from a local jail who, though certainly in need of a distraction, were not in a position to subscribe.
In the weeks since, Western governments have spent hundreds of billions of dollars buying up the banking system.
The drive provides cost savings for IT departments or DIY enthusiasts who want to extend the life of their existing PCs without buying an entirely new system.
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He has devised a plausible alternative to the current open-ended, state-financed system: government-funded vouchers toward buying insurance.
Another part of the problem: Many traders, including a number of high frequency trading firms that normally make up 60% of daily trading volume, stepped aside and stopped buying, draining liquidity from the system when it was trying to deal with a tidal wave of sell orders.
Suggestions include buying more police boats, developing a system to track patients after hospital evacuations and lining up more generators, boilers and electrical repair gear.
The network of base stations, keeping them all on, running the system itself, having management and the biggie, buying the spectrum in the first place.
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Buying bonds puts money into the banking system.
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That sell-off was extreme and the stock looks undervalued, creating a buying opportunity, according to YCharts proprietary valuation system.
As a result, 12 states have moved to an electronic-tracking system that alerts pharmacists so they can stop people from buying more than the legal limit of pseudoephedrine.
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