Sentences with phrase «back then»

Back then, a blue chip stock simply meant a high - priced stock, a reference to how many poker establishments used the color blue for their most valuable chip.

Credit was a lot easier to come by back then.

Back then we can have up to 20 per cent of transaction in branches, now it is no more than six per cent.

«The Model T set Ford's reputation as a car company early on, but I'm here to tell you we made a heck of a lot of Model T Ford trucks way back then, as well,» Kreipke said.

Back then they didn't have the technology we have today.

Charles Dow calculated the index back then by finding the average stock price.

Back then, there were junior gold and silver mining companies that were a fraction of the market cap of their much larger - cap mining peers that had much stronger management, had managed geopolitical risk in a superior manner, and had streamlined operations to a far greater degree than their larger - cap peers that were not huge risks.

About the only asset we didn't like at the time was cash — the one thing with which most investors were afraid to part back then.

Back then, there was little to no talk about any trade war with China and certainly no concerns about big data.

Lawmakers expressed disappointment back then that the companies had sent their attorneys rather than their CEOs.

I wrote back then what I write today: bitcoin is only one type of cryptocurrency, and its success / failure has no bearing on the philosophical underpinnings of the digital asset class.

Back then, I didn't have any training or experience in talking to large groups of people, not to mention I wasn't very keen on the idea of facing my worst fear.

Back then, when I asked this top producer how to become successful, he answered (and I'm paraphrasing here to the best of my memory) that I should not waste any more than 10 to 15 minutes making asset allocation decisions once I closed on a large account.

Back then, the world was dealing with a rising interest rate environment.

Back then, you didn't need much more than a job and a Social Security Number to get a loan.

Back then, «all» the successful investor had to -LSB-...]

Back then, the pervasive thinking was «Why would anybody fund someone else's ideas?»

Back then, U.S. workers made everything worth owning, from cars and fridges, to pots and socks.

I was close to the Papandreou family — I still am in a way — but I became prominent... back then it was big news that a former adviser was saying «We're pretending bankruptcy didn't happen, we're trying to cover it up with new unsustainable loans,» that kind of thing.

Brooks's deeper insights about business are just as relevant today as they were back then.

Back then, grocers were loath to anger the Kraft Foods and PepsiCos of the world by pushing their own labels too hard.

It was the same thing back then, pillaging long established companies by loading them up with debt, stripping the assets, and then watching the company fail.

There were a ton of people selling internet back then, a lot of them were just reselling over Bell, Rogers and Allstream.

A Gallup poll during the 1986 effort found that slightly fewer Americans (41 %) back then believed their own taxes would go up because of that plan, compared to 18 % who said they would go down and 30 % who expected they would remain the same.

The business I was running back then went through some extremely rough times, but it recovered and the lessons I learnt were passed on to the CEOs I currently manage.

I imagine it was easier to get things done back then.

Back then, I never realized that making money from a blog was something you could do.

Back then, I think they just showed how your portfolio stacks up against the target asset allocation.

Of course, TechCrunch will be there and bringing you all the news as it happens from the Steve Jobs theater on September 12, so check back then for updates.

SEO was admittedly much easier back then; Schultz says he didn't have any problem getting a monopoly on the paper airplane market.

«Back then, it took 10 workers to make a ton of steel.

Back then, 10 - year yields went from 2 % to 3 % on a frozen rope.

Back then, I said housing was next asset to be drilled and cored.

While the system remains supportive of the cryptocurrency, it's not as high on it as it was back then.

Back then, most investors felt justified basing many dotcom companies» valuations on a discounted cash flow model that ran out a decade or longer.

Back then, only two of the mall's three large anchor stores — the Bon Marche and J.C. Penney — were part of national chains.

NASDAQ did not sue IEX back then, they did not sue IEX for patent infringement in the SEC comment process, and it did not sue IEX when they became an approved exchange.

Back then, anything over 12 % had a high probability of default.

Back then, your parents could work a part - time job and pay for school without taking on debt.

When I went back and met with my team afterwards, they let me know that Cambridge Analytica actually did start as an advertiser later in 2015, so we could have in theory banned them back then, and made a mistake by not doing so.»

Cash yields are much lower today than they were back then so it's not exactly the same environment but if / when rates do eventually rise cash will actually be a decent holding.

To find the price of bitcoin back then, I had to dig for a post by Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, then the co-founder of a mildly eccentric publication called Bitcoin Magazine.

I was a member of team Obama back then and thought this was an important and very necessary advance.

Back then, this classic...

Back then, the US president was making a personal pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia to vainly plead for more production.

Back then, people were literally worried about someone splicing a telephone line and connecting a listening device to it: basically, wiretapping.

Back then, Nintendo's business consisted of selling hardware that plugged into a television.

Eventually, they were worried about things like computer processing of data, which back then was basically showing up to a warehouse with a bunch of computer hard drives in your trunk and asking to have the hard drives processed: can the data processing center actually keep copies of that data?

I dabbled in the cryptocurrency space in 2011 by messing around with mining bitcoin, but back then I was more interested in it from a technological perspective vs. as an actual investment asset class.

Back then we argued that BGG's history of value - destroying acquisitions, significant write - downs, and declining profits made it unlikely that the company would hit the high expectations set by the market.