Many are staring at paying an average 17% on new bonds, in what is the toughest credit market in memory (see table below).

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That is what is on the table when some folks talk about refusing to consider tax expenditures in the deficit reduction.

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The United States did not offer to return to the negotiating table in a bilateral format, which is what North Korea wants, so Pyongyang needed to ratchet up tensions once again.

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And even the stuff that I talked about -- and let me go back, when I talked about what is already on the table that the sides agreed to -- this is in principle, because nothing is agreed upon until everything is agreed upon.

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He no doubt wanted to avoid an IPO pop and the idea that he left money on the table, but a 50% drop is not what he had in mind either.

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What I know is that growth in emerging markets and new business models bring innovation to the center of the table to solve problems to those on the outside looking in.

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The beauty of technical analysis is that price patterns give you a clue about what market participants actually believe belief defined in this case as whether money is being put on the table or not.

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As Daniel Pink has so compellingly argued in Drive: the Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, once the issue of compensation is off the table, more money does not cause us to work harder, longer or more efficiently.

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