Since 2012, home values are up more than 30 % nationwide, helping the typical homeowner to fully - recover whatever
home equity losses may have been incurred during last decade's downturn.
Closing Books on Dot - Coms Fallen upstart geniuses of the «new economy» are writing memoirs, trying to distance themselves from
huge equity losses.
Instead, in the face of massive
shareholder equity losses and a long list of bad investments, the Board increased its pay with no regard for the massive losses the shareholders were experiencing — losses that were painless for the members of the Board due to their low levels of stock ownership.
Finally, it should be noted that this 80 - 20 split is roughly consistent with empirical economic analyses of the share that would be required — on average — to fully compensate (but no more) private industry for
equity losses due to the policy's implementation.
I've never understood it to mean «
large equity losses are eventually followed by large gains,» although I accept that, if that phenomenon was real, it would be described as «mean reversion».
It is the fact that
equity losses will occur at just the time that is most painful for the entities that own them.