True, it would be more difficult to create a balanced game, and it would be especially tricky to figure out how to do loot, but it could still be pretty amazing.

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With borrowing rates so high, loan-to-value ratios on houses can be twice as much as a home's market value, whereas in a more balanced market they would be at 75%.

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During his conference speech Mr Osborne said the better off would pay more in taxes, but the budget could not be balanced "on the wallets of the rich".

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Transport minister Simon Burns said that the fares and ticketing review was "not about squeezing more revenue out of regulated fares and that any changes stemming from it would need to be balanced and fair".

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But though details are sketchy, it seems improbable that China's move towards more balanced economic growth will be anything like the kind of radical leap that foreign observers would like.

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