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...possible to do these market reforms without cost skyrocketing," says Robert Zirkelbach, spokesman for Ignagni's group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). Put another way, says Kahn, "Insurance isn't free, and you have to have groups with many more healthy people than sick." As a result, insurers are pushing for harsher financial penalties on Americans who would forgo insurance even in the face of a government mandate. The HELP Committee bill would charge the uninsured a minimum annual penalty of $750 for individuals, a figure that is far below the annual expenses of full-cost premiums, which insurers...
...Middle East investors last year in an effort to bolster its capital base, Barclays agreed in June to sell the investment unit BGI to U.S. fund manager BlackRock for $13 billion. HSBC, for its part, pulled in close to $18 billion in a bumper-rights issue in April. The result: "Survival is no longer the issue" for these banks, says Maughan. "Growth can be once again...
...allowed to co-locate, i.e., rent server space within or near the NYSE or another exchange's computer servers to get access to trading statistics faster - just milliseconds faster - than competing investors. This is just one of the techniques that have come to light in recent weeks as the result of a paper by Sal Arnuk and Joseph Saluzza, co-founders of Themis Trading...
...question answered now, pick your airline seat now, buy anything you want right now. Cell phones and the Internet, together with FedEx and U.P.S., finally and fully satisfy the permanent child within each of us - the impulsive child with zero tolerance for waiting. And as a result, during the last quarter century, delayed gratification itself came to seem quaint and unnecessary...
...numbers through vote-rigging or through using the state apparatus. But you cannot ignore the sentiments of the nation. Karzai doesn't have that kind of support." Last week, Abdullah's campaign manager, Abdul Sattar Murad, told the Dubai-based National newspaper that his team would actively reject a result that had Karzai winning in the first round, saying the only way the incumbent could get 50% of the vote would be if he resorted to "50 percent of [the corruption] he has planned." Sattar said that Abdullah supporters would greet a Karzai victory with mass protests and that deadly...