And that doesn't address the bigger price pressures on the less elite Uber driving services,
even as costs of doing business have increased.
Not exact matches
Even buyers who
do want to conduct
business in bitcoin are facing steep transactional
costs, which have risen steadily
as the price
of bitcoin has exploded.
And
as long
as we can break
even in our insurance underwriting - which we have
done, on the average, during our 32 years in the
business - the
cost of the float developed from that operation is zero.
Well guys it is Hell already here on earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation
of the ruler but he seems unwilling to resign before the end
of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My
business is in the field
of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part
of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate thing... Already have reduced working hour to one shift to reduce running
cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building
of our
business office writing here
as nothing can be
done to carry on
business even if there is
business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out
of control
as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...
Time for some brutal honesty... this team,
as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition
of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release
of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state
of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid
of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in,
as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position...
as far
as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy
of our time and / or investment,
as such we should get rid
of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid
of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction
of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return
of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort
of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative
of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition
of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle
of the park we need to target a CDM then
do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any
of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind
of ruthless haggling has
cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we
did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack
of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer
as a result
of his presence on the pitch...
as for the rest
of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands
of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and
even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none
of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club
of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't
even guaranteed starters, means that our whole
business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid
of some serious deadweight,
even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just
as much time on the training table
as on the field
of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version
of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history
of injuries... up front, although I
do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet
of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival
of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone
of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players
of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the
business model was that
of a «selling» club...
does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part
of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has
done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore
as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet
of those who were well aware all along
of the potential pitfalls
of just such a plan but continued to follow it
even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...
«
Even doing those groins not to allow the water to break
cost a lot
of money and then with frozen taxes in the last eight to ten years, there has not been any increase in taxes unlike in the United Kingdom for instance where any young person living there knows that once you start working at the age
of 18, your civic obligation is that you must pay tax but here nobody takes it
as their
business that the new road I am using I need to pay something and so they only pay tax when they are inside the real tax net that is you are paying pay
as you earn.
In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview
of tens
of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-
of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack
of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that
even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack
of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading
as a hobby instead
of a small
business • Lack
of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead
of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead
of doing your own research • Lack
of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack
of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack
of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction
costs) • Lack
of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack
of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack
of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead
of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead
of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics
of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead
of just listening to it and going against the trend instead
of following it
In other words don't count on that cash being returned to shareholders or
even invested in passive investments (private or public equity) for the benefit
of shareholders; A liquidation valuation really isn't
of interest here
as Glassbridge is set to be an ongoing
business and I can see an operating cash bleed for 3 - 5 years depending on how long it takes the company to attract enough AUM to cover operating (read staffing)
costs.
The
businesses themselves throw off a certain rate
of return evaluated at replacement
cost, but when the price paid is far above replacement
cost the return drops considerably
even as the cash flows from the
businesses do not change at all.
Even if every environmentalist and climate campaigner agreed with me that we need a radical reappraisal
of our present «growth at all
costs» orthodoxy (hint: they don't), that still wouldn't mean the only alternative to
business -
as - usual is some anarcho - primitivist dystopia.
Indeed, the Court noted that a fine in that amount could
even be seen by some companies
as a «
cost of doing business.»
In an industry that is reluctant to add
even an ounce
of friction to a customer's purchase, Berardi says identity theft is seen
as simply the
cost of doing business.
Their projects may not be
as news - worthy
as a Fortune 10 announcing a change - up
of its outside counsel lineup or the decision to automate or offshore a formerly lawyer - intensive process, but most
of what small - to mid-size departments are
doing —
even if not sexy — is focusing on sound improvements to their
business and operational management practices (which I'd suggest will have a longer term impact on improving the health and value
of the corporate legal profession than any single behemoth company's decision to re-order or discount the
cost of work for its portfolio
of AmLaw 25 firms.
Take the
cost to acquire the goods (without co-op agents selling your MLS listings, perhaps they would never sell and this is in fact «a
cost») away from the gross dollars coming in, before you
do any other calculations, (
of course after co-op fees are paid) they are part
of trust funds and can not be allotted to any other category,
even so they appear on the Balance Sheet
as a payable) because those
costs are in fact fixed expenses, and must be deducted from gross BRANCH income before anything else, making the co-op dollars, in fact, part
of the
cost of doing business.
It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming
costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear
as iron spews water instead
of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front
of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming
costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice
as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out
of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous
business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why
as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is
even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer
of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form
of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to
do, conclude after three calls that no - one
does, and then finally someone finally
does and... it stops.