The South African financial rand was the most visible part of a system of capital controls. Although the financial rand was abolished in March 1995, some...
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The South African rand, or simply the rand, (sign: R; code: ZAR) is the official currency of South Africa. It is subdivided into 100 cents (sign: "c")...
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The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm. RAND Corporation engages...
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FirstRand Limited, also referred to as FirstRand Group is the holding company of FirstRand Bank, and is a financial services provider in South Africa....
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S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/aɪn/ EYEN), was a Russian-born American author and philosopher. She is...
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Ingersoll Rand Inc. is an American multinational company that provides flow creation and industrial products. The company was formed in February 2020 through...
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Randal Howard Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011. A member of the...
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ISO 4217 (redirect from Financial franc)
Banks portal ISO 9362 – SWIFT business identifier coding standard SWIFT – Financial telecommunication network Currency symbol – Symbol used to represent a...
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Trane Technologies (redirect from Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited)
motor-driven compressor. Also in 1871, brothers Addison Rand and Jasper Rand, Jr. established Rand Drill Company with its main manufacturing plant in Tarrytown...
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Janice Rand is a fictional character in the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Original Series during its first season, as well...
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only remove investments via the financial rand, which is traded at a 20% to 40% discount compared to the commercial rand. This means companies that disinvest...
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was convinced to found the Ayn Rand Institute after businessman Ed Snider organized a meeting of possible financial supporters in New York in the fall...
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The Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School (Pardee RAND) is a private graduate school associated with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California...
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Atlas Shrugged (redirect from Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged)
Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It is her longest novel, the fourth and final one published during her lifetime, and the one she considered...
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First National Bank (South Africa) (category FirstRand)
one of South Africa's "big four" banks. It is a division of FirstRand, a large financial services conglomerate, which trades on the Johannesburg Securities...
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The RAND Health Insurance Experiment (RAND HIE) was an experimental study from 1974 to 1982 of health care costs, utilization and outcomes in the United...
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Rand Merchant Investment Holdings, also referred to as RMI Holdings, is a listed financial services investment holding company that holds various insurance...
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The Fountainhead (category Novels by Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent...
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Discovery Limited (category Financial services companies established in 1992)
Limited). In 1998, the Momentum Group became part of First Rand after the merger of the financial services interests of Anglo American Corporation of South...
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RMB Holdings (category Financial services companies established in 1987)
RMH, previously known as Rand Merchant Bank Holdings, is a South African diversified financial services holding company. RMH is listed on the JSE with...
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Krugerrand (redirect from Kruger rand)
minted on 3 July 1967 to help market South African gold and produced by Rand Refinery and the South African Mint. The name is a compound of Paul Kruger...
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happened in 2003. The First Rand Group was established in 1998, by the merger of First National Bank of South Africa, Rand Merchant Bank and Momentum Insurance...
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Objectivist movement (redirect from The Collective (Ayn Rand))
novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. The movement began informally in the 1950s and consisted of students who were brought together by their mutual interest in Rand's novel,...
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from basketball, he worked as a stockbroker with Rand Financial Advisors. Rand was named Lynwood Terry Rand after Detroit Tigers pitcher Lynwood "Schoolboy"...
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only remove investments via the financial rand, which is traded at a 20% to 40% discount compared to the commercial rand. This means companies that disinvest...
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John A. Allison IV (redirect from The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure)
the Ideas Behind Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, published in 2011. In September 2012, Allison released his own book, The Financial Crisis and the Free Market...
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Randal Keith Quarles (born September 5, 1957)[failed verification] is an American private equity investor and attorney who served as the first Vice Chair...
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Rand Refinery (Pty) Limited is the world's largest integrated single-site precious metals refining and smelting complex. It was established in 1920 to...
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UNIVAC (redirect from Univac Sperry Rand)
Computer Corporation. Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company and successor organizations. The BINAC, built by the Eckert–Mauchly...
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Edward Kennard Rand FBA (December 20, 1871 – October 28, 1945), known widely as E.K. Rand or to his peers as EKR, was an American classical scholar and...
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