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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

...ill also appreciate the sample forms, which will help you expand your investment horizons by doing, for example, joint ventures. For all of you who ... ...titively bid down the amount of property he or she would actually control in the event of a foreclosure. If bidders bid down the amount of interest ... ...is buying delinquent taxes. They are buying an interest rate and in the unlikely event of a foreclosure, they would own only the portion they bid do... ...’t need an agreement, think again. Even with the best of intentions, unforeseen events can create problems. Did you mention everything? Did your ... ...y, plus a generous interest payment than that you will get the property. In the event the owner of the property redeems, the Tax Collector will not... ...e advanced course of materials. For now let’s just stick to the basics. In the event the owner of the real estate does not pay the back taxes withi...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...r farfetched. Their validity might not hit home until later, when coupled with memories of past events and experiences. I am, as I said, my own wor... ...cted by the drug administered. Causation is only one of many possible connections and chains of events. To designate a pattern of behaviour as a me... ...devalue former pursuits, or slump. Why is that? Coping with a challenge, even with a guaranteed eventual triumph is meaningless in the absence of o... ...t proceeds to develop paranoia. He concocts a prosecuting world, incorporating in it his life's events and his social milieu. This gives meaning to... ...to his aching soul a mixture of lies, distortions, half-truths and outlandish interpretations of events around him. These solutions can be classifie... ...y man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the... ...ess, keep their jobs, or raise functioning families, nurture their friendships, or broaden their horizons. Narcissists are perennially ill-prepared....

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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

...t which, having for title, “Memoirs of the Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XII... ... few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of this kind. There were nobles, who made war against each other; the... ...de Treville, on turning round, found himself alone with the young man. The event which had occurred had in some degree broken the thread of his ideas.... ...e from his forehead, his heart began to cool. He began to reflect upon the events that had passed; they were numerous and inauspicious. It was scarcel... ...nt to determine D’Artagnan on the part he was to take. It was one of those events which decide the life of a man; it was a choice between the king and... ...ly manner at his window, looking out, like Sister Anne, at the dust in the horizon. “Hola, Aramis! What the devil are you doing there?” cried the two ... ...s if he had not constantly seen Milady like a dark cloud hover- ing in the horizon. After breakfast, it was agreed that they should meet again in the ... ... The star of day, pale but nevertheless still splendid, was setting in the horizon, glorifying at once the heavens and the sea with bands of fire, and... ...ccasionally, by the light of a flash of lightening which gleamed along the horizon, the road stretched itself before them, white and solitary; the fla...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...d upon a Jersey shore; to be your own telegraph, unweariedly sweeping the horizon, speaking all passing vessels bound coastwise; to keep up a steady ... ..., half a mile off, like the rest, cov ered with wood, was my most distant horizon. For the first week, whenever I looked out on the pond it im press... ...tween and over the near green hills to some distant and higher ones in the horizon, tinged with blue. Indeed, by standing on tiptoe I could catch a gl... ...men. “There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon” said Damodara, when his herds required new and larger pastures. ... ...day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make. All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmo sphe... ...se more equable life is his occasion, and who would be dis tracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and h... ...in cial, we are in danger of forgetting the language which all things and events speak without metaphor, which alone is copious and standard. Much is... ...trical exhibi tion; on the other hand, I may not be affected by an actual event which appears to concern me much more. I only know myself as a human ... ... those after noons which seem indefinitely long before one, in which many events may happen, a large portion of our natu ral life, though it was alr...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...ior, however, was announced as a lesser star, yet visible above the office horizon. 109 Little Dorrit With Barnacle junior, he signified his desire t... ... of his friend’s jaw, from which his friend inferred that if the course of events really came to any stoning and trampling, Monsieur Lagnier would so ... ...r window. When the sun had raised his full disc above the flat line of the horizon, and was strik- ing fire out of the long muddy vista of paved road ... ...effect a watch-light, burning in that place every night until an appointed event should be watched out! Which of the vast multitude of travellers, und... ... as we can, in our humble way; and we shall not starve him, I hope, at all events.’ In the beginning of this dialogue, Clennam had expected some great... ...ss the non- professional Miss Dorrit—that my son would have nothing in the event of such a marriage, and would be an absolute beg- gar. (I mention tha... ...ple, to exercise his influence towards the bright reversal of these dismal events. She was so confident in her exposition of the case, and it was so u... ... calm water again full two hours after he had been seen fuming away on the horizon at the top of the steps. There were several small assemblages of th... ...room, where Mr F.’s Aunt appeared, from the sound of her voice, to be in a horizontal posture, awaiting her breakfast; and from which bower that inexo...

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Hard Times

By: Charles Dickens

... she takes it in the fainting way, I’ll have the skin off her nose, at all events!’ But, in spite of being thus forearmed, he entered his own house wi... ...ns of you, privately expressed to me, unless he relents a little.’ ‘At all events, Mr. Harthouse,’ said Tom, softening in his admiration of his patron... ... a dream, but gradually, as the objects became more real to her sight, the events became more real to her mind. She could scarcely move her head for p... ...ouisa, almost sternly. ‘Whatever you want most, if I could be that. At all events, I would like to try to be as near it as I can. And however far off ... ...ls began to rise; in a third, there was a faint change in the light of the horizon where it shone upon the far off sea. Under their feet, the grass wa... ...king close to the wheel on his side, that he might be ready for him in the event of his showing the slightest dispo sition to alight. The other three...

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Utility, Rationality and Beyond – from Behavioral Finance to Informational Finance

By: Sukanto Bhattacharya

...ith the risk of loss due to the occurrence (or non-occurrence) of a chance event can either assume the risk themselves or pay an insurance company to... ...high-return assets e.g. stock index futures. At the end of the investment horizon the amount invested in the discounted zero-coupon bond yields the ... ...in a subsequent trade), there still remains a finite risk of this extreme event which can assume a larger than life image in the eyes of a small-tim... ... {θ 1 , θ 2 … θ n } stand for a set of n mutually exhaustive, elementary events that cannot be precisely defined and classified making it impossibl... ...er θ j , j = 1, 2 … n does not constitute an exhaustive set of elementary events, one can always add an extra element θ 0 such that θ j , j = 0, 1 ... ... to as the neutrosophic components. Neutrosophic probability is useful to events that are shrouded in a veil of indeterminacy like the actual implie... ...tility from the financial structured product at the end of the investment horizon depends on how well the assets within the structure have been ‘man... ...te of return on the risk-free asset and T is the length of the investment horizon in continuous time and w is the initial wealth invested i.e. ignor... ...the risk-free asset will be very low over even moderately long investment horizons. And this probability will keep diminishing with every additiona...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...his stumbling across a fortune will not qualify as an achievement. A lucky turn of events does not an achievement make. A person must be intent on ... ...sified as achievements. Intention is a paramount criterion in the classification of events and actions, as any intensionalist philosopher will tell ... ...ological-cognitive determinants as they are translated into action. But whether an event or action is an achievement or not also depends on the wor... ... knowledge or in mental therapy where we have no direct observational access to the events and we have to rely on testimonials. If they do not occur... ...ules and the ethos of said community. It has no "objective" or ontological weight. Events and actions are classified as achievements, in other word... ...ernalities. Classic cost/benefit analyses fail to tackle very long term investment horizons (i.e., periods). Their underlying assumption - the oppo... ...ence. There is no effective method of cost/benefit analysis applicable to such time horizons. How are consumer choices influenced by advertising an... ...digital goods, information, and opinion will dwindle and vanish. The Internet as a horizontal network where all nodes are equipotent will be replac... ...'s shares constitute a strong workplace incentive in the West (because there is an horizon and they increase the employee's welfare in the long ter...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...nalities. Classic cost/benefit analyses fail to tackle very long term investment horizons (i.e., periods). Their underlying assumption - the oppo... ...ence. There is no effective method of cost/benefit analysis applicable to such time horizons. How are consumer choices influenced by advertising an... ...t must explain the behaviour of economic actors, their decisions, and why economic events develop the way they do. i. Predictive (prognostic) Powe... ...ctive (prognostic) Powers – Economic theory must be able to predict future economic events and trends as well as the future behaviour of economic ac... ...k model, most investment vehicles sport different volatilities over different time horizons. Volatility is especially high when both supply and dem... ...ntrue. Insurance companies cover mostly "pure risks" - loss yielding situations and events. The financial markets cover mostly "speculative risks" -... ...rely on the "law of large numbers" - that in a sufficiently large population, every event has a finite and knowable probability. None of them can or... ...atrocity, insurance companies slashed their coverage to $50 million per airline per event. EU governments had to step in and provide unlimited insur... ...ather than lend to businesses or households - banks thrive on arbitrage. Investment horizons are limited. Should the state refrain from stepping in ...

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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...into existing ones (protocols, etc.). A successful due diligence is the key to an eventual investment. This is a process much more serious and im... ...onitor and analyse the payment morale, regularity, non-payment and non- performance events, etc. – in order to determine the changes in the credit r... ...ndors, distributors, individual users and businesses in the territory. 4. Special events, sponsorships, collaboration with businesses. 5. The pl... ...k model, most investment vehicles sport different volatilities over different time horizons. Volatility is especially high when both supply and dem... ...g activities are associated with a smaller price reaction; trades near information events precipitate larger price reactions. The evidence is gener... ...more than 35% at least on three occasions. This time around, though, such a turn of events will be nothing short of cataclysmic: more than ever, go... ...he playing field To transact, people have to maintain faith in a relevant economic horizon and in the immutability of the economic playing field or... ...untary interactions and transactions decreases sharply. With a collapsed investment horizon, individuals and firms become corrupt in an effort to s... ...'s shares constitute a strong workplace incentive in the West (because there is an horizon and they increase the employee's welfare in the long ter...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...RE. This pathology can be traced back and attributed to a confluence of historical events and processes, the equivalents of trauma and abuse in an ... ...um-old war between Islam and other "world systems". Such interpretation of recent events enrages many. They demand to know (often in harsh tones):... ...ons. It brought crime and drugs and mayhem but gave very little in return, only a horizon beclouded and thundering with vacuous eloquence. As a re... ... therefore, an inevitability - hence their cynicism. Mostly provincial people with horizons limited by consumption and by wealth, these heralds of ... ... - when it is gradual and, ostensibly, reactive (responding to external shocks and events). The second illustrates the risks inherent in relying on... ...pendent community which lasted till 1350. Byzantium was reduced to penury by these events and by the Black Death of 1347. It fought with Venice aga... ...Slovakia in Central Europe. Everyone is in on the take, the police especially. The events depicted in the film are not without historical precedent...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...ages to telescope, in a brilliantly leisurely way, a lifetime, a full and eventful lifetime.” RUSSELL KIRK, novelist: “The scenes are drawn with pow... ...ts forever... P It has been a dreadful ordeal. I can hardly describe the events of this past fortnight. I had barely recovered from the shock of A... ...ay: he admitted there had been time without pain and wondered why we were eventually cheated? Fog leaned against the house and I described it and he... ...and birds were quarreling. Sum- mer’s integrity stretched from vineyard to horizon. I thought about the two of us, our fragility, neither of us marre... ... am confronted by yes- terday, in the gulls: I squint, and there, on milky horizon, I glimpse the spirit of man, blundering, a plant in his hand, a r... ...pered and saw the dawn, a dawn that had streamers of rain splotch- ing the horizon, pelicans one after the other in long files, our island in the offi... ... The placid sea carries a few boats, small clouds on the horizon, a series of silver cat’s-paws; and as though through a sheet ... ...same questions in Florence, in Milan, in Rome. If we ask questions we can eventually achieve some kind of answer. Persistence then! Why does the hea... ...motives for desiring your death and has resolved to take your life in the event of your not relinquishing your office. The blacks are dis- illusioned...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

... read off the day’s business, the Pontiff’s mind drifted off into the strange event of the night before. After experiencing a visitation, worthy only... ...twenty-five years. Before anyone arrived, Alexander went over in his mind the events of the day before. After his meeting with Father Salvi, he ... ... then gave him a hardy handshake. Still bewildered by the astonishing turn of events, Walter was only able to crack a small smile. Alex then walked ... ...g the olive trees behind the house, Antonio called the Pope. He recounted the events of the night before with horrific detail. Pope Francis' respons... ...mis could mean only one thing: Gallucci had shared some, if not all, of the events of the night before. What Antonio had construed as somber was i... ... have never lost a son," Brand said sullenly, and stared off into the distant horizon where white, billowy clouds touched the blue ocean. "I have l... ... The talk of another Russian revolution was gathering like dark clouds on the horizon. The old KGB and the disgruntled military against the Russian ... ...as testing him. "Are you expecting a storm?" "There are always storms on the horizon. Especially in our business, eh, Michael." "Storms come, sto... ...ar soaking his shirt from the inside out. Suddenly, a volley of shots strafed horizontally across the room. Brand aimed at the flashes coming from th...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

... this empyreal substance cannot fail, Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, We may with more suc... ...ther upheld by strength, or chance, or fate; Too well I see and rue the dire event, That with sad overthrow and foul defeat Hath lost us heav’n, and a... ...r’d: As when the Sun new ris’n Paradise Lost Milton 15 Looks through the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of his Beams, or from behind the Moon In dim E... ...hless, but with th’ Almighty, and that strife Was not inglorious, though th’ event was dire, As this place testifies, and this dire change Hateful to ... ...ulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low? Th’ ascent is easie then; Th’ event is fear’d; should we again provoke Our stronger, some worse way his... ...to the fleecie Starr that bears ANDROMEDA farr off ATLANTICK Seas Beyond th’ HORIZON; then from Pole to Pole He views in bredth, and without longer pa... ...hen PANDORA, whom the Gods Endowd with all thir gifts, and O too like In sad event, when to the unwiser Son Of JAPHET brought by HERMES, she ensnar’d ... ...many a Province wide Tenfold the length of this terrene: at last Farr in th’ Horizon to the North appeer’d From skirt to skirt a fierie Region, stretc... ...en. First in his East the glorious Lamp was seen, Regent of Day, and all th’ Horizon round Invested with bright Rayes, jocond to run His Longitude thr...

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The Witch and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...lady lost the use of her legs and took to her bed. In consequence of which event the house was left without a woman to look after it, and that’ s for ... ...ed heavily at night as though they had buried their daughter. And how many events had occurred in the village since then, how many marriages and death... ...The past,” he thought, “is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.” And it seemed to him that he had just s... ...f the clearing, on the left a golden sea of ripe rye stretched to the very horizon. He was red and per- spiring, a white cap with a straight jockey pe... ... barrows, once watch-mounds and tombs, which rose here and there above the horizon and the bound- less steppe had a sullen and death-like look; there ... ...ts running one after another into the dis- tance and disappearing into the horizon, and the wires hummed mysteriously . Then they saw a homestead, all...

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