The reason they are using some of that money to buyback shares is that with zero interest rates, they are earning nothing on that idle money.

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Fresh Money means that idle money is depreciating money.

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If you have idle time, and money on your hands, you could make annual visits to your estate lawyer to keep up with this moving target.

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As a result, much of Asia's plentiful high-tech money is sitting idle for lack of talent.

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At a time when factories are closing and workers are being made idle, can companies continue to throw money at their F1 programs?

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The workers, with more idle time to enjoy, and more money to afford things to fill that time, created whole new leisure time industries, and employment actually grew.

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How can you make money in the market if stocks sit idle for the balance of the year?

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Or the stock of money has risen, while aggregate supply remains idle.

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But this is also the chancellor who courts private financiers to build public infrastructure, who stuck to the Tories' tight spending plans in his first two years in office, and who fiddles and fusses with the tax and benefit systems to ensure money goes to the deserving, not the idle, poor.

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The real bet that Idle Games is making is this: that you can put time and money into a Facebook game and have it pay off.

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