Some banks may have to raise capital worth between a quarter and half of their current market values (although the actual amounts may well be smaller because of mitigating steps they have already taken).

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So much so that the major legislative action of this current presidential administration has been an attempt (whatever you think of the actual attempt itself) to deal with this rising cost.

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But the NCAA now argues that in the same case, the Supreme Court blessed its current price fixing via dicta (that is, side commentary unrelated to the actual holding in a case).

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Every year the cost of national pension payments for these persons will increase by JPY 2.4 trillion, equivalent the revenues from a one percent sales tax. (The actual national sales tax rate is five percent, so we are talking about the equivalent 20% of current revenues.) Consider that today, 50 percent to pension payments are financed by issuing government debt.

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All three want to see actual movement within next year's budget from the current plans - Plaid more money for the enterprise department, the Liberal Democrats for education and the Conservatives for health.

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As the Center for Security Policy has noted previously, (1) the current U.S. nuclear stockpile was created on the assumption that actual weapons testing would continue to be available.

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But whatever the actual percentages, the weakness of smaller, and particularly newer firms, is one key reason for our current, persistent job shortfall.

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Corker, a member of the Banking Committee who had been negotiating with Dodd on behalf of the Republicans, said in a statement Thursday, The current bill would remove swap desks from commercial banks, lowering the amount of capital available for actual lending.

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