The short answer is that no bank can be too big, so long as there is enough free competition to keep it on its toes.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission considers Intel a threat to free competition, and, of course, Microsoft's dustup with Washington's Department of Justice makes daily headlines.
The cumulative effect, were these measures to be implemented in 2003 as planned, would be to open 27% of incumbent operators' revenues to free competition.
Ron Paul later sponsored the Honest Money Act (HR 2756) of 2007, the Free Competition in Currency Act of 2007 (HR 4683), the Tax Free Gold Act of 2008 (HR 5427), and the Free Competition in Currency Act of 2011 (HR 1098).
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For every hour that their e-books are being published and distributed free in competition with legal copies offered for sale, they lose potential sales.
Programmes can do a passable job writing up baseball games, and may soon fill parts of newspaper sections (those not sunk by free online competition).
State and local government agencies, such as the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning in this fleet management example, can help spur innovation through free market competition.
Not my idea of noble, free market competition.
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The fact is automated sales tax technology freely available utilizes the very same technologies currently employed by twitter, UPS, FedEx and so many other application greatly simplifying business demands creating new efficiencies and free market competition.
It provided drug developers seven years of market exclusivity for their inventions, ensuring that they would have a reasonable amount of time in which to make back their hefty investment, free of competition from other pharmaceutical firms.
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That means that Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people) will be free of competition from Pepsi (nyse: PEP - news - people) as the nonalcoholic beverage of choice for the games.
So by building up the concentration of ammonium ions inside its retaining membrane, H. pylori is able to fend off the destructive attentions of the hydrogen ions in stomach acid and thus live free from competition by less hardy germs.
Liebowitz emphasizes that because these ratings agencies were protected from free market competition, and so granted a government favored status by regulation, they naturally did not want to create controversial political waves by rocking the subprime mortgage boat, which would endanger their regulation protected profits.
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The case presents an interesting dilemma for believers in free enterprise and competition.
It oversees, among other things, external trade policy, the policing of internal free trade, competition policy and much environmental policy.
Might this not change, given the lip service that so many governments pay to the notions of free trade and competition?
It went against her notion of the free market and competition, which is exactly what she believed microfinance clients needed to operate in.
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Mr Zielonka's model would work more smoothly if there were an outside guarantor of free trade and competition, especially if perceived to have divine authority.
Regardless of whether they knew it, the conspirators were violating the Sherman Antitrust Act, the federal law that seeks to protect free and vibrant competition in the United States.
Judging by some of Sarkozy's recent statements, including his move to scrap a commitment to "free and undistorted competition" in the EU constitution, she may well be able to count on his support.
First, is there not a contradiction in his passion for the single market, which is basically about free and fair competition, and his wish to exempt the UK from EU labour regulations, which are a key part of every country's competitiveness?
Conservatives have a lot to like about it because it promotes free-market competition and consumer choice (more than 1, 000 different plan options exist) and, unlike every other major social program ever created, actually costs less than number crunchers first forecast it would.
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More, the competition that free trade inspires ensures that we are at our best.
They argue that only mature industries can handle the global competition of free trade with their competitive prices.
Bosnia looked promising, but Mr Cummings ran into competition from free supplies, some of them from Muslim countries.
These services reckon to win fee-paying subscribers despite competition from free games sites by offering better or more-up-to-date games.
Above all he shows how American wealth has always owed as much to government and to friends in high places as it has to free markets or genuine competition.
For the first seven years Telmex held a monopoly on phone service, and it succeeded in imposing some of the highest prices anywhere in the world. (All bidders were offered a similar competition-free period.) The market opened to rivals in 1997, and Telmex tangled with competitors repeatedly over the high access fees it charged them.
Democratic ideals and concepts of popular participation are closely linked with principles of competition and the free-market economy.
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