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Now Mr. Harris, a former journalist, turns to high-finance intrigue.
The Short List 2012
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The real high-finance scourges of the American economy.
Robert J. Elisberg: Revealed: Who Actually Caused America's Financial Collapse Robert J. Elisberg 2011
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The Constitutional Convention's proposing a national government in 1787 came in direct opposition to progress made by the radical democrats who promoted ordinary, working Americans over the high-finance investing class.
William Hogeland: Economic Conflicts of the Founding Era Dispel Tea Party Myths... and Liberal Ones, Too William Hogeland 2011
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Personal relationships, often cultivated over many years, are crucial to the way the world of high-finance operates.
Friendship Is Tossed in MF Global Storm Gina Chon 2011
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Under the influence of the founding financier Robert Morris, Hamilton made a stunningly successful effort to yoke American wealth to great national projects by beating down the popular-finance movement and promoting the interest in both senses! of the high-finance elites.
William Hogeland: Economic Conflicts of the Founding Era Dispel Tea Party Myths... and Liberal Ones, Too William Hogeland 2011
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Whether or not this is ultimately a form of high-finance gambling on Buffett's part, the $30 million payout dwarfs the individual insurance policies taken out on World Cup players, the Insurance Journal reports.
Warren Buffett's Firm Would Have Lost MILLIONS If France Won The World Cup 2010
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But I guarantee every warm-blooded alpha male and female in high-finance will be sprinting to that ball with reckless abandon.
Damien Hoffman: Goldman Sachs Fumbles! Can Competitors Recover the Ball? 2010
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"Anything Congress puts in place will in the short run be undone at the trading level and in the long run will become captive of the cozy high-finance industry," he said
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WASHINGTON — Reveling over a new milestone in his presidency, a triumphant Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules since the Great Depression, adding safeguards for millions of consumers and aiming to restrain Wall Street excesses that could set off a new recession.
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Right now, the high-finance boys get the big salaries, and the even-bigger bonuses.
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