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  2. Cancer Drugs Fund - Wikipedia

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    The Cancer Drugs Fund ( CDF) was introduced in England in 2011. It was established in order to provide a means by which National Health Service (NHS) patients in England could get cancer drugs rejected by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence because they were not cost effective. Its establishment was confirmed by the UK government ...

  3. National debt of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The federal debt at the end of the 2018/19 fiscal year (ended September 30, 2019) was $22.7 trillion (~$27.1 trillion in 2023). The portion that is held by the public was $16.8 trillion. Neither figure includes approximately $2.5 trillion owed to the government. [83] Interest on the debt was $404 billion.

  4. Adams Natural Resources Fund - Wikipedia

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    Website. [1] Adams Natural Resources Fund, previously Petroleum & Resources Corp. (NYSE: PEO), is a closed-end investment company, specializing in securities of companies engaged in petroleum, natural resources or related industries or in interests in petroleum or natural resources. The company has consistently owned shares of a representative ...

  5. History of Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Minnesota's legal identity was created as the Minnesota Territory in 1849, and it became the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858. After the chaos of the American Civil War and the Dakota War of 1862 ended, the state's economy grew when its timber and agriculture resources were developed.

  6. Stock market - Wikipedia

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    Robert Shiller's plot of the S&P Composite Real Price Index, Earnings, Dividends, and Interest Rates, from Irrational Exuberance, 2d ed. In the preface to this edition, Shiller warns, "The stock market has not come down to historical levels: the price-earnings ratio as I define it in this book is still, at this writing [2005], in the mid-20s ...

  7. Search fund - Wikipedia

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    A search fund is an investment vehicle through which an entrepreneur raises funds from investors in order to acquire a company in which they wish to take an active, day-to-day leadership role. Search funds can also be financed through self-funding. In this scenario, the entrepreneur leading the acquisition will use their own resources to ...

  8. History of CNN - Wikipedia

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    History of CNN. The Cable News Network ( CNN ), is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by the CNN Worldwide division of Warner Bros. Discovery. Upon its launch, CNN became the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and was the first all-news television network in the United States.

  9. Philadelphia Savings Fund Society - Wikipedia

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    History Condy Raguet Founding. Founded in 1816, the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society was the first savings bank to organize and do business in the United States. Savings banks had existed in Europe for years and in the early 1810s had grown rapidly through Great Britain.