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Latest Moral Hazard News

Imani Alert - 2009-2012 Budget Analyses Advise a Review of Healthcare Spending ...
Ghana's success story is encouraging but has to be relieved by the high number of exemptions through taxation (as cost to the government of exempting one poor individual from premiums is between US$ 15.87 to US$ 95.44) and the threat of moral hazard.
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Euro Architect Warns EU Bosses Against Superstate by Stealth
“On the one hand, this would create moral hazard. On the other, it would foster resistance against enforced transfers. Attempts to follow this path would be bound to lead to tensions that might even jeopardize the degree of integration that has been ...
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Chelsea 4-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv: Jose Mourinho earns reprieve with heavy European win
Chelsea claimed a moral-boosting victory to ease the pressure on manager Jose Mourinho after thumping Maccabi Tel Aviv in their Champions League opener at Stamford Bridge. Despite Eden Hazard's missed penalty, Willian, Oscar, substitute Diego Costa ...
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Latest Plutocracy News

Capitalism and the global plutocracy
Byanyima will be directing her appeal, ironically enough, to the largest annual gathering of the global plutocracy whose enrichment the report decries. Many of the hundred or so billionaires—and countless hundreds of multi-millionaires—in attendance ...
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Counter plutocracy with public financing
Plutocracy is on the rise in the United States. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FEC allow corporations and wealthy individuals to donate unprecedented amounts to political campaigns, giving them megaphones in the ...
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Democrats now the party of plutocracy
There's more than a bit of cognitive dissonance in the merger of Democrats with plutocracy – rule by the wealthy. After all, the party's brand is supposed to be “party of the people.” For Democrats, the allure of corporate cash – in campaign ...
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Latest Government Statistics News

Urban development ministry allows installation of cell phone towers on ...
According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ( TRAI) statistics, call drops have doubled in the last one year and are now four times higher than the permissible limit. The government has been accusing the service providers of ducking the required ...
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Government expects economy to grow by 6% this year
The Central Statistics Office also revised up growth for the first quarter to 2.1 per cent, putting the increase in gross domestic product (GDP) for the year to June at 6.7 per cent, more than twice the level achieved by Spain, the next strongest euro ...
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A pair of court decisions bring good news for FOIA users
First, agencies must waive or reduce fees “if disclosure of the [requested] information is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government and is not ...
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Latest Government Statistics News

Forex Market: USD/CAD daily trading forecast
Job openings are part of the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), which gathers data from about 16 400 non-farm establishments including retailers and manufacturers, as well as federal, state, and local government entities in the 50 states ...
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Moody's: Chinese regional and local government debt update shows credit ...
Sydney, September 02, 2015 -- Moody's Investors Service says that statistics released on Chinese regional and local government (RLG) debt show a worsening of the RLGs' credit metrics, such as their debt-to-GDP and debt-to-revenue. On 29 August 2015, ...
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Ewart: Oilpatch layoffs confirm recession more than Statistics Canada
Their pink slips — the latest among more than 35,000 issued in the oil and gas industry this year — tell the story of a faltering Canadian economy far more effectively than the government statistics that confirmed two consecutive quarters of negative ...
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