If you invest in the stock market, you might not
actually see a return on your investment for several years.
Not exact matches
You can
actually see this in the tangible form of compound
returns on your
investments.
In the real world, speculators snatch up real estate and land bank it as well — most of the «abandoned» buildings you
see in East Coast cities are
actually owned by investors who don't put them to use because they're waiting for a higher
return on their
investment.
See, for example, their take
on what's called «Energy
Return on Energy
Investment,» and their tales of a world in which we're so short of affordable fossil energy that we can't
actually build out the infrastructure of a high - functioning global renewable economy.