Similarly, because major foreign countries did not separate investment and commercial banking, US commercial banks could underwrite and deal in securities through branches outside the United States.

Lawrence White and Jerry Markham rejected these claims and argued that products linked to the financial crisis were not regulated by Glass-Steagall or were available from commercial banks or their affiliates before the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall sections 20 and 32. Alan Blinder wrote in 2009 that he had “ yet to hear a good answer ” to the question “ what bad practices would have been prevented if Glass-Steagall was still on the books ?” Blinder argued that “ disgraceful ” mortgage underwriting standards “ did not rely on any new GLB powers ,” that “ free-standing investment banks ” not the “ banking-securities conglomerates ” permitted by the GLBA were the major producers of “ dodgy MBS ,” and that he could not “ see how this crisis would have been any milder if GLB had never passed .” Similarly, Melanie Fein has written that the financial crisis “ was not a result of the GLBA ” and that the “ GLBA did not authorize any securities activities that were the cause of the financial crisis .” Fein noted “ ecuritization was not an activity authorized by the GLBA but instead had been held by the courts in 1990 to be part of the business of banking rather than an activity proscribed by the Glass-Steagall Act .” As described above, in 1978 the OCC approved a national bank securitizing residential mortgages.

Similarly, the present value formula can be rearranged to determine what rate of return is needed to accumulate a given amount from an investment.

Similarly, purchasing other commodities for personal use, such as cars, furniture, and so on, cannot realistically be considered as a venture investment in which the Islamic bank shares risks and profits for the profits of the venture.

Similarly, if the stock falls to $ 3, the mark-to-market value is $ 30 and the investor has lost $ 10 of the original investment.

Similarly, a rise in output causes a rise in investment.

Similarly, citing Sonenberg's inability to come up with his share of the investment, Steinman managed to get Sonenberg thrown overboard as a producer ; the two did not speak for some time after the mutual firing.

Similarly, UBS Warburg and Piper Jaffray were alleged to have received payments for investment research without disclosing such payments in violation of the Securities Act of 1933.

Similarly, tourism accounts for close to 15 % of the annual revenue, as the Principality of Monaco also has been a major centre for tourism ever since the famed casino was established in 1856.

Similarly air travel revolutionized travel during 1945 – 1969, contributing greatly to tourism in the United States.

Similarly, with the emphasis on improving tourism in the Varadouro region, the natural rock pools have been improved and thermal spa in planning for remodeling.

Similarly, the popularity of Greek beaches was a major factor in tourism in Greece accounting for a quarter of Greece's foreign earnings.

Similarly, Greater Tokyo, through its 20 year recession, has managed to outpace the growth of all other cities in Japan of a million people or more by its sheer concentration of economic, infrastructure, and people power.

Similarly, an on-line booking system might be critical infrastructure for an airline.

Similarly, many of those small companies floundered and failed because of an overcrowded market or bad business practices ( lack of infrastructure for online retailers ).

Similarly, the Commonwealth has become dominant in the field of public hospitals, and a major player in the field of roads and other major infrastructure.

Similarly, most biochemically significant processes are catalysed.

Similarly, most hand drums cannot be played with drum sticks without risking damage to the head and to the bearing edge, which is not protected by a drum rim.

Similarly, in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, the so-called święconka, i. e. blessing of decorative baskets with a sampling of Easter eggs and other symbolic foods, is one of the most enduring and beloved Polish traditions on Holy Saturday.

Similarly, most of Ibn Juzayy's descriptions of places in Palestine were copied from an account by the 13th-century traveller Muhammad al-Abdari.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

Similarly, most patented medications cost more in the U. S. than in other countries with a ( presumed ) poorer customer base.

Similarly, in societies with different religions, most successful business leaders were Protestant.

" Similarly, Louie Kemp, in his article for Jewish Journal, wrote: " You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in " Apocalypse Now ," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most.

Similarly, the modern economic argument for capitalism, and most modern forms of economics, was often stated in the form of " public virtue from private vices.

Similarly, we have that NC is equivalent to the problems solvable on an alternating Turing machine restricted to at most two options at each step with space and alternations.

Similarly, they rejected the Redstockings view that women submitted only out of necessity or The Feminists ' implicit view that they submitted out of cowardice, but instead argued that social conditioning simply led most women to accept a submissive role as " right and natural ".

Similarly, most of the traditions associated with monarchy of the United Kingdom, seen as rooted deep in history, actually date to 19th century.

Similarly, utilitarianism places no direct intrinsic value on biodiversity, although as far as indirect, contingent value, it most probably does.

Similarly, the audio frequency range is limited to those sounds most clearly heard by the human ear.

Similarly, the manual for the ORCA / M assembler refers to a field indicating the order of the bytes in a number field as, and the Mac OS X operating system refers to " byte sex " in its compiler tools .</ ref > The usual contrast is whether the most significant or least significant byte is ordered first — i. e., at the lowest byte address — within the larger data item.

Similarly Mersenne ( 1636 – 7 ) wrote that it can be sounded as softly as a recorder and can play a scale beginning on any note as ut: the point of these observations was that most other woodwind instruments of the period ( shawms, flutes etc.

Similarly, mantas are often entangled in gill nets used in coastal and pelagic fisheries, resulting in suffocation and death in most cases.

Similarly, most adjectives ' masculine and feminine plural forms are formed from their corresponding singular forms by adding-s, though sometimes-x is added instead, and nothing is added if the corresponding singular form already ends in-s ,-x, or-z.

Similarly to most urban centers in Moldavia, Bacău emerged on a ford that allowed water passage.

Similarly, governmental policies in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, oil production Arab states of the Persian Gulf and Libya, as well as a desire for improved standards of living, effectively led most Bedouin to become settled citizens of various nations, rather than stateless nomadic herders.

Similarly, most video screens are not capable of displaying the range of brightnesses ( dynamic range ) that can be captured by typical electronic cameras.

" Similarly, Patrick Parrinder has described Book II as the " worst and most disorienting quagmire in the Wake.

Similarly Zeus Belus mentioned by Sanchuniathon as born to Cronus / El in Peraea is certainly most unlikely to be Marduk.

Similarly, Cecil Taylor, the most prominent free jazz pianist, began stretching the bop boundaries as early as 1956.

Similarly, the small portion of the population connected to the local sewer system is serviced by the Rensselaer County Sewer District, though most inhabitants have individual septic systems.