It is the most prominent example of a huge new "sharing economy", in which people rent beds, cars, boats and other assets directly from each other, co-ordinated via the internet.

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But technology has reduced transaction costs, making sharing assets cheaper and easier than ever—and therefore possible on a much larger scale

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The big change is the availability of more data about people and things, which allows physical assets to be divided and consumed as services.

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Owners make money from underused assets

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Large companies have a difficult time switching into new markets because there is a temptation to put existing assets into the new businesses.

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They find it costly to give up their existing assets

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Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such persistent work will inevitably exhaust precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship.

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The Competition Commission is now to investigate whether the British airports Authority needs to sell off some of its assets.

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They sell stocks and other assets.

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They suffer great losses in stocks, property and other assets

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Some scientists believe that the rise in carbon levels means that the Amazon and other rain forests in Asia and Africa may go from being assets in the battle against rising temperatures to liabilities.

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By paying attention to firms' data assets, antitrust regulators could avoid the size trap.

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They now need to take into account the extent of firms' data assets when assessing the impact of deals.

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America's new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find attractive.

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And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

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And, unless banks carry toxic assets at prices that attract buyers, reviving the banking system will be difficult.

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Curbs on business - method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the Federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual- fund as

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It was banks that were on the wrong planet, with accounts that vastly overvalued assets.

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These gave banks more freedom to use models to value illiquid assets and more flexibility in recognizing losses on long- term assets in their income statements.

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These rules say they must value some assets at the price a third party would pay, not the price managers and regulators would like them to fetch.

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