And I didn't make large sums of money.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Then came the investment that had the potential to make large sums of money through private placements and Halper was listening.

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It is a conflict of interest which, outsiders argue, enables banks to make huge sums of money on their proprietary trading (dealing on their own account).

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