Sentences with phrase «about diminishing returns»

I'm worried about diminishing returns in the stock market going forward, but I think they'll be better than savings accounts.

Amazon's Jeff Belle did say they were hoping to increase sales while the serial was in progress, which might say something about the diminishing returns of a fast, intense editorial process if more copies aren't sold upfront.

I have written in the past about the diminishing returns of an ever increasing C - section rate and predicted that there would be a point at which the risks to mothers would outweigh the benefits to infants.

It still had a pretty lavish budget so execs were obviously a bit sad about the diminished returns.

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When I notice this happening in my own life, I gently remind myself about the law of diminishing marginal returns.

Baker is excited about the airline industry overall, writing that «cost convergence, fare unbundling, widespread consolidation, diminished new entrant activity, and return - oriented management teams have combined to form an industry that is actually managing itself for the first time we can recall.»

(To learn more about what constitutes a properly diversified stock portfolio, see Over-Diversification Yields Diminishing Returns.

The managers of both these funds like to cite a study by some terribly clever academics which shows that once you have about 25 to 30 holdings in a fund, there is a massive diminishing return in diversification if you add any more.

However, the 2016 advance has had many analysts questioning the integrity of this latest move as the HUI (NYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index) and the XAU (Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index) have defied gravity, the laws of physics, the Law of Diminishing Returns, and just about every other law that historically pertains to the behavior of stocks.

There is no doubt that Bale needs to get the hell out of Real if he ever wants to be the kind of player he once was... this isn't to suggest that he his skills have diminished, he simply isn't the fiery, determined and aggressive player that struck fear in the hearts of his opponents... the small fish in a big pond just doesn't fit his profile... I can't even remember the last player I've seen who has become so invisible on the big stage (maybe Pogba last year)... maybe it's a case of culture shock or maybe he wasn't able to handle the notoriety that invariably came with his big money signing, but regardless of how it happened this guy is a shadow of his former self... although I doubt he would ever come to a team in such disarray, he could quite easily fill the shoes of Sanchez, who ironically was in a similar predicament in Barcelona, as Bale would return to his favoured left side and would be given the same freedoms that have allowed Sanchez to flourish... ultimately I think the cache of wearing a Real jersey and competing for the top trophies would be too difficult to give up for a wannabe club run by suits who care little about those kinds of accolades

Ekweremadu urged African leaders to respect term limits, saying, «Many African leaders do not seem to care about the law of diminishing returns, but you can never cheat nature.»

As a math guy, you certainly know about marginal and diminishing returns

After a certain point, a decision has to be made about goals, and that further strength gains have diminishing returns.

There's nonetheless something unconvincing to this Allen agnostic's ears about insistent claims that his worst films amplify one other rather than provide diminishing returns, an argument more often blankly proffered rather than convincingly argued for in detail.

The rest of this weekend's top 10 is about what you'd expect: Diminishing returns for films like Game Night — which dropped from No. 2 to No. 4 in its second week — Peter Rabbit, and Annihilation, hanging in there alongside the unexpectedly long - lived Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle and The Greatest Showman, both of which are currently in their eleventh week.

Shortlived entertainment: Naughty Bear is fun for about an hour and then the law of diminishing returns sets in

It is a case of diminishing returns on these scenes, and the filmmakers go to the well about three too many times.

No matter how much time and money you have, no matter how talented you (and your designer, if you hire one) are, there are diminishing returns to agonizing about your cover.

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I was thinking about the law of diminishing returns with regards to production, ie the first x amount of goods is the easiest to produce and once you expand the business and incur extra costs, your marginal profit decreases.

In any case like with everything there's a point to how big can a thing get before getting diminishing returns, and it's not only about the money, but also projects can also get too bloated getting too tiring for the hardcore and too intimidating for newer audiences.

We will learn some things about the CO2 greenhouse effect you have probably never heard in the media, such as the fact that warming from CO2 is actually a diminishing return phenomenon whose effect is asymptotic or essentially capped, making it hard to understand the prevalence of wild, open - ended temperature runaway scenarios.

Even supporters of legislation such as the Bingaman - Specter bill admit that as much as a trillion dollars will need to be spent to reduce global temperatures about 0.13 C. And that is a trillion for the first tenth of a degree — the law of diminishing returns means that each additional tenth will cost more.

Liebig's law of the minimum (often not capitalized for various epistemological reasons), the cut off in various plants for gain to photosynthesis (maximum of 1300 ppm, but lower for many plants), the point of diminishing returns (about 400 ppm, but lower for many plants) of photosynthesis gains from CO2, all are ignored in this claim.