Sentences with phrase «acreative death spiral»

In the newspaper business, media giants are desperately trying to avoid an ad - revenue death spiral by pushing into video and live - streaming news formats.

But for a small business, a downward pricing spiral can be a death spiral, so examining other factors contributing to the result (such as below - average product feedback that reduces perceived value) may be a logical, and more valuable, next step.

Self consciousness can cause us to do dumb things, making us more self conscious, and kicking off a death spiral of awkwardness.

So begins a death spiral: they sell more comfort food, people lose appreciation for delicious, leading to more comfort food, leading to people losing appreciation for delicious, and so on.

U.S. media giant Viacom made a submission to the regulator saying that unbundling cable packages would send the existing Canadian TV business into a «death spiral.»

Premiums rise, but there's no death spiral because premium subsidies rise too.

The analyst even characterized the company's fate as a «death spiral.»

Without describing them, here's the history: Reg S, Calendar trading, Mutual fund timing, Death spirals, Front running, Pump and Dump, manipulating illiquid stocks, Ponzi schemes, and inside information.

The positive way to spin it is that the company is trying to reconfigure itself in an effort to improve efficiencies and profits, but the realistic way to interpret it is that the company is now in the final stages of its death spiral.

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In poker, players who are «on tilt» are basically in a death spiral of negative emotions.

The point of the last piece, the subsidies, is to keep enough people in the pool of insured to avoid triggering a so - called death spiral of declining enrollment, a growing proportion of less healthy people and premium increases by insurers.

Listening too much to early adopters often leads to an expensive death spiral, since these users will request more and more features, more precise control of the technology, and more interoperability, all of which increase the complexity of the product, and decrease the usability for the average customer.

That's when a company appears to be merely undervalued but really is in a death spiral.

In 2006, when some in the book business were looking without envy at the death spiral of the music industry, Reisman came calling.

The collapse of oil prices and Western sanctions have plunged the Russian economy into a death spiral.

«This «death spiral» happened in the 1990s, and it's what the ACA was designed to avoid.»

Former Republican Senate health policy advisor Rodney Whitlock tweeted that the Senate bill looked like the «definition» of a death spiral.

Bertolini said that he believes Obamacare is in a «death spiral» at a Wall Street Journal event, according to Politico.

Experts expect that this would cause a death spiral, where only the sickest patients purchase coverage and premiums skyrocket.

Ask Peter Gabriel (The Guardian) • Scientists Have Finally Detected Gravitational Waves, and They Reveal the Death Spiral of Two Monster Black Holes (Slate)

In 2015, it made the bold decision to discover how many people really do buy it for the articles and stopped publishing nude photos altogether — taking it from a slow death spiral to a suicidal plunge — before it spread out a safety net and began publishing the pictures again.

«I think we've entered the period of the death spiral upward.»

The traditional utilities model is in a death spiral, with power plants being replaced by technology - enabled, customer - centric innovations.

That could risk segmenting the market and sending it into a death spiral: Healthy people would flock to the skimpier plans while sick people would buy Obamacare coverage, driving up costs for the latter.

Without some kind of mandate replacement, as Vox's Sarah Kliff wrote, the insurance markets under the Republican plan could go into a death spiral.

«Sometimes the drug companies talk about a death spiral down if they compete on prices,» Schondelmeyer says.

Unless there's a big multi-year market rally, the portfolio can enter a «death spiral,» Nuss explained.

Leaders in the craft segment may be suffering, but as Bud (down 5.6 % this year) and Bud Light -LRB--3.6 %) both continue a slow death spiral, mass market craft like Goose Island are flying off shelves.

Print advertising is whirling downward — 9 percent last year — in a seeming death spiral.

He and congressional Republicans have repeatedly portrayed the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplaces, also known as exchanges, as being in a «death spiral.»

Glencore is entering the irreversible death spiral.

«Citigroup's five - day death spiral last week was surreal.

During her deposition, Fannie's Chief Financial Officer Susan McFarland said that she «did not think that Fannie Mae was in a death spiral in mid-August of 2012» that would have prevented it from paying Treasury's 10 % cash dividend.

The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.

A downward death spiral into a major depression a la the Smoot Hawley Act?

Rather than focusing on contribution margins, they over-index on gross margin %'s, setting the stage for the ultimate death spiral.

They are not, in fact, the apex predators who are truly responsible for sending these companies into a death spiral in the first place.

Humana Inc. said this month that it would quit Obamacare for next year, while Aetna Chief Executive Officer Mark Bertolini said this month that the markets were «in a death spiral.»

Aetna (AET.N) CEO Mark Bertolini on Wednesday said during a Wall Street Journal forum that the Obamacare exchanges had entered a «death spiral» in which rising premiums pushed out the healthiest customers, which in turn raises rates.

Washington Mutual agreed to a death spiral cash infusion of $ 7 billion accepting an offer at $ 8.75 when the stock was over $ 13 at the time.

In other words: death spiral.

About a year ago, Padilla announced that Puerto Rico is in a «death spiral» that he needs to halt, and he began saying that bondholders will not be fully paid.

One is the basic death spiral of self - fulfilling default risk.

Unfortunately for auto lenders, used values are in a downward death spiral.

The power nations of the world are playing a reckless game with their currency in a race to devalue, while developing nations have no choice but to follow them into the death spiral.

The difference between the death spiral of the Abrahamic religions and all the other religions that have been discarded throuought human history is that humanity has no need for a replacement «belief gap filler» this time.

There is no «death spiral» of abortion.

Third, the death spiral of abortion simply defies adequate calculation.

When he says Pres. Obamas policies have failed, remember that when he took office the economy was in a death spiral and now the economy is moving back up, if only at a snail pace.