Sentences with phrase «about years and decades»

You're talking about years and decades of expertise and technical knowledge.

Not exact matches

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

Home ownership has experienced the biggest decline in two decades, and the number of renting households has been growing by about 700,000 a year since 2006.

Sirius stock is enjoying its best run in more than a decade: It's up about about 45 % from its low of a year ago, and on Thursday it briefly hit $ 5.00 for the first time since 2006 before settling just under that mark.

As a long - term «manager,» your franchisee will continue to learn about the business and is more likely to gain institutional knowledge of your business that will make him a better operator as he spends years, maybe decades, of his life in the business.

As you begin to think about a day when you might sell or delegate control of your business, you'll likely start projecting months, years, and even decades into the future.

«Better late than never,» Morris told a newspaper when asked how he felt about waiting four and a half decades to receive the medal this year.

She might as well be in the 1950s or 1960s, because the products that Mattel introduced in those decades — flagship franchises Barbie and Hot Wheels — still make up about 30 % of the 72 - year - old company's global sales.

However, Liss, who has worked with Warhols for more than a decade, appraising works for the Art Gallery of Ontario and other museums across the country, thinks collectors should be concerned about the foundation's decision this year to cease its authentication business.

Failing this sort of bold action, Hofmeister sees North America entering an «energy abyss» by the end of the next decade, the result of land (mis) management, an irrational aversion to nuclear power, and 50 years of ignoring serious questions about our resource base and the infrastructure that powers society.

In its first decade, the Rooney Rule seemed to make a notable difference: Beginning in 2003, ESPN reports that minorities filled about 20 % of head coaching vacancies — and that percentage edged up steadily each year.

The dramatic drop in oil prices to $ 40 - 60 in the past four years after a decade of $ 100 per barrel oil has lessened consumer concerns about gasoline prices and boosted SUVs and truck sales.

The founder of Vanguard Group thinks a conservative portfolio of bonds will only return about 3 percent a year over the next decade, and stocks won't do much better.

Admittedly, one could make the same argument about gold, but gold has been widely accepted by humankind as a thing of value for more than two - and - a-half thousand years — compared to less than a decade for bitcoin.

Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.

In fact as I started writing more about the outlook for hard commodity prices over the next year, I adjusted my outlook downwards and proposed that iron ore prices would fall below $ 50 a ton before the end of the decade.

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

If you are the kind of income investor who's happy with dividends that are steady and can grow year after year, or even decades, and don't care as much about yields — 3M yields 2.3 % currently — 3M is a right fit for your portfolio.

Many investors haven't had to worry about this question for years, as the Federal Reserve has continued its zero - rate policy, and the bull market in bonds has gone on for decades.

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

Based on the valuation measures most strongly correlated with actual subsequent total returns (and those correlations are near or above 90 %), we continue to estimate that the S&P 500 will achieve zero or negative nominal total returns over horizons of 8 years or less, and only about 2 % annually over the coming decade.

People thought it would take years to become relevant; I remember a man coming up to me after I spoke about cryptocurrency and telling me that my talk would be interesting in a decade.

Since 1950, the average retirement age has decreased by about five years and the average life expectancy has increased by more than a decade.

When those experiences are about selling a business and each data point can take a year, it can take decades to accumulate a complete understanding.

Given any positive inflation at all during the next few years, the real return on the S&P 500 in this decade through 2010 will probably be worse than the post-depression period, and about as bad as the 1970's.

That said, the long - term implications of bailouts, tax shortfalls and lack of budget discipline is likely to be significant inflation pressure beginning about 4 years or so out, and continuing for the remainder of the decade.

«On the current trajectory, 100 % clean meat products will be available in four to five years and cost - competitive in about a decade» — Conversation with Bruce Friedrich and Clare Bland of The Good Food Institute (2017)

As a result, the most historically reliable valuation measures now suggest that the S&P 500 will experience a net loss over the coming decade, while including broader (if slightly less reliable) measures results in projected S&P 500 10 - year annual nominal total returns of about 1.4 % annually (see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle for the arithmetic behind these estimates).

I find it amazing that almost every organized religion during that time was at least partially, if not fully involved in bigotry toward blacks, including outright banning them from their membership and congretations altogether (which Mormans have never done), but only Mormons are still chided constantly about their history with blacks, despite the fact that black members have had full benefits for almost four decades, and despite the fact that Mormons have been actively proselyting and doing charitable missionary work in Africa for over 160 years.

The stories written about him decades later are inconsistent with each other on important details, went through an editing process hundreds of years later, and incorporate a number of myths of other religions popular at the time.

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The first Gospels date to a couple DECADES after his death, the first non-Christian mention is about 80 years later, and the first Roman mention about a century.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

It was last summer that beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams committed suicide after a decades - long battle with depression and addiction, and this weekend, his 26 - year - old daughter Zelda spoke out about her own struggle.

After more than 20 years of professional ministry experience and a decade focused on philanthropy and developing leaders for the nonprofit world, I often get into conversations about how to know if all the work we're doing is actually worthwhile.

«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades of incest... am I getting this?»

Driving about today's Budapest, one is constantly reminded of what are still felt to be this former imperial city's greatest days in the modern period» what the French call La Belle Epoque» the decades about one hundred years ago, when Budapest was the fastest growing city in Europe, and one of the largest and richest cities in the world.

Canada and Britain have had healthcare for DECADES, but still support the MONARCHY and throw a 30 MILLION Dollar Wedding about every 30 years?

«I received an email from a business school about a year ago who wanted to know about champagne pricing over the decades and they told me the Sherry - Lehmann catalog is the only record that exists.»

The market for bison meat experienced growing pains in the past decade, but it has recovered from a period of oversupply and underdevelopment about 10 years ago.

Sonoma County Winery Development at Issue in Debate About Events: Sonoma County has approved more than 300 new wineries and tasting rooms in the past 16 years — a nearly 360 percent increase over the previous three decades — and many of those wineries have decided in recent years to boost business by offering an array of events, from wine - tasting dinners to weddings and harvest parties...

For about a decade, Halliday - Sharp juggled motor racing and three - day eventing, but just this year she decided to make training and competing her horses the priority.

«On the current trajectory, 100 % clean meat products will be available in four to five years and cost - competitive in about a decade» — Conversation with Bruce Friedrich and Clare Bland of The Good Food Institute (2017)

Although slicers have an average service life of about 10 years, this equipment can last decades, depending on use and care.

Dimitri's dad, Erik, played for nearly a decade in the NFL, and Tre's dad, Rodney, played for years, so there were always games to talk about.

I know a few Raider fans who are about to endure a 3rd move and until a couple years ago had a decade of poor teams.....