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  2. Price controls - Wikipedia

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    Price controls are restrictions set in place and enforced by governments, on the prices that can be charged for goods and services in a market. The intent behind implementing such controls can stem from the desire to maintain affordability of goods even during shortages, and to slow inflation, or, alternatively, to ensure a minimum income for ...

  3. Price Club - Wikipedia

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    Price Club was an American warehouse club chain. Founded in 1976, it merged with its competitor, Costco Wholesale, in 1993. The original Price Club warehouse in San Diego, California, is now Costco location number 401. History. Price Club was founded by Sol Price in 1975 after he was forced out of FedMart, another retail chain he had founded ...

  4. Random walk hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Random walk hypothesis test by increasing or decreasing the value of a fictitious stock based on the odd/even value of the decimals of pi. The chart resembles a stock chart. Whether financial data are a random walk is a venerable and challenging question. One of two possible results are obtained, data are random walk or the data are not.

  5. War finance - Wikipedia

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    War finance covers a wide variety of financial measures including fiscal and monetary initiatives used in order to fund the costly expenditure of a war. [1] War finance measures can be broadly classified into three main categories: levy of taxation. raising of debts - borrowing. creation of fresh money supply - inflation.

  6. Aware Super - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, First State Super merged with Health Super, a not‐for‐profit superannuation fund for workers in the health and community services sector. At the time the merger meant the combined entity was the third largest superannuation fund in Australia. In 2016, First State Super acquired StatePlus for $1.1bn to boost its advice offering.

  7. Sovereign wealth fund - Wikipedia

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    Public finance. A sovereign wealth fund ( SWF ), sovereign investment fund, or social wealth fund is a state-owned investment fund that invests in real and financial assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals, or in alternative investments such as private equity fund or hedge funds. Sovereign wealth funds invest globally.

  8. Economic history of the Russian Federation - Wikipedia

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    On 1 January 2004, the Stabilization fund of the Russian Federation was established by the Government of Russia as a part of the federal budget to balance it if oil price falls. Now the Stabilization fund of the Russian Federation is being modernized. The Stabilization Fund was divided into two parts on 1 February 2008.

  9. Historic Preservation Fund - Wikipedia

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    Reauthorization history Elizabeth Hughes, President of the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO) and SHPO for Maryland, testifying before the House Natural Resources Committee on February 11, 2016, on reauthorization of the U.S. Historic Preservation Fund.