Hoarded cash is a big problem for an economic recovery.

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The problem is an enduring fetish to store big data without making plans for how it will be used.

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"The patterning issue is a very big problem, " Choi Sang-hun, an LG Display engineer, said in an interview.

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But if we're talking about a family who's got an autistic kid and is depending on that Medicaid, that's a big problem.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

This might not solve every big-data problem fast access to the data is an issue but as a solution to large-scale archival storage it could be a godsend.

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Part of the problem is that the exchange has too many masters with too big an interest in things staying as they are.

ECONOMIST: London Stock Exchange

The problem is that an exact direction has not yet been confirmed by the charts, as big money investors start positioning themselves for next year.

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Some countries have an extra problem of big external government debts (in Hungary's case, the gross figure is near 100% of GDP).

ECONOMIST: Eastern Europe

In the longer term its big problem is the structure of public spending rather than low tax revenues, argues Pablo Saavedra, an economist at the World Bank.

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The problem is that the sort of thing that would lead to an economically meaningful increase in investment by big companies - which, as you will recall, are sitting on almost record amounts of cash - are in the box labelled "politically horrendous".

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