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On this model, bankers would have a clear incentive not to be reckless: their piggy-bank containing years of accumulated bonuses could disappear at a stroke.
How to rein in banking's bonus junkies Nils Pratley 2010
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He isn't - he treated HD as his own private piggy-bank for years and was richly rewarded for it.
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It's not the "myth" or the "worthless set of IOU's" that would-be welshers and piggy-bank robbers like Alan Simpson keep cackling about.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Don't Do It, Mr. President. Don't Cut Social Security or Medicare. RJ 2011
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It's not the "myth" or the "worthless set of IOU's" that would-be welshers and piggy-bank robbers like Alan Simpson keep cackling about.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Don't Do It, Mr. President. Don't Cut Social Security or Medicare. RJ 2011
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Everyone knows about the average coin collector, key-chain -, piggy-bank - or Barbie doll-collector for example.
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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John has spotted this Japanese piggy-bank that includes an RPG that gives you rewards for saving:
Boing Boing 2008
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This new draft is lipstick on a piggy-bank robber, a package of cosmetic changes meant to disguise its true purpose: To raid the future financial security of most Americans in order to benefit a few.
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The site appears easy enough for the piggy-bank set to use.
TechCrunch50: Start-Ups Target Kids - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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According to the SEC's Complaint, those Defendants "used client money invested in WGTI as their personal piggy-bank to furnish lavish and luxurious lifestyle which include the purchase of multi-million dollar homes, a horse farm, cars, horses, and rare collectibles such as Steiff teddy bears."
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But before you let them (or anyone commenting below) force you into paying that $500k mortgage on a $300k house, ask them if they'll push Jerry Speyer into "honoring his obligation" by breaking into his $2 billion personal piggy-bank to keep paying for Stuyvesant Town?
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