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   "text": "Exporting and imposing rules through extraterritorial reach could be counterproductive not only for US diplomacy but also for international cooperation in combating securities fraud, whereas cooperative mutual adjustment between the US and the EU is the better course.",
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   "text": "An outright retroactive charge for government subsidies or for actions taken by regulators could backfire, because it would legitimize the bailout and perpetuate its socially suboptimal consequences.",
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   "text": "Based on these findings, adviser size may not matter as much for policy adjustments and SEC rule making as the hedge fund industry and its representatives have claimed.",
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   "text": "Nash's model, by presuming homo economicus unbound, overestimates human computational capacity and perpetuates a normative ideal that distorts policy and institutional design by justifying frictionless markets that never materialize in human systems.",
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   "text": "Predistribution, which operates upstream by structuring markets and institutions so that AI gains are broadly shared before concentration occurs, must be implemented before AI capital concentration becomes self reinforcing through purchased political power.",
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