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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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a situation of negative saving

Taking depreciation into account allows us to see, for instance, that French companies are currently in a situation of negative saving: they distribute more to their shareholders than they actually have to distribute, so that what they have left over is not even enough to replace used-up capital.

—p.42 Chronicles: On Our Political and Economic Crisis Enough of GDP, Let’s Go Back to National Income (41) by Thomas Piketty
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réserve héréditaire

whatever the size of the fortune, children have a right to the réserve héréditaire. Parents may only freely dispose of what's called the quotité disponible, set at 50 percent of the estate when there's one child, 33 percent with two children, and 25 percent with three or more children.

—p.40 Lessons for the Tax System from the Bettencourt Affair (38) by Thomas Piketty
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