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financier

fi nuhn sir

  • n  a person skilled in large scale financial transactions
  • v  conduct financial operations, often in an unethical manner

  • The billionaire financier Carl Icahn.
  • In 1983, financier Rich was indicted for evading more than $48 million in taxes, and charged with 51 counts of tax fraud, as well as running illegal oil deals with Iran during the .
  • You see, Wall Street financier David Pullman, who in 1997 rocked investors with "Bowie bonds," backed by royalties on the songs of David Bowie, is planning to create securities .
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  • Shimon Peres in Forbes
    Today is a new age with new dangers and the greatest danger is that of oil,President Shimon Peres said. "It is the greatest polluter of our age and oil is the greatest financier of terror."
  • Jeffrey Immelt in Washington Examiner
    Immelt wrote to shareholders days after Obama's inauguration, "The interaction between government and business will change forever. In a reset economy, the government will be a regulator; and also an industry policy champion, a financier, and a key...
  • Steve Lemme in MTV.com
    We're like, three drafts into it,added Steve Lemme, who played the overly aggressive Mac in the film. "It's funny, because we have an independent financier - we have a lot of independent financiers - who are like, 'Give us that f---ing...

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