Sentences with phrase «expensive dollar for dollar»

Guaranteed issue life insurance policies will tend to be more expensive dollar for dollar than other traditional types of life insurance policies.

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A strong dollar makes greenback - denominated oil more expensive for holders of other currencies.

There are even more abstruse explanations, for example, that computer equipment accounts for a growing portion of capital investment but has become less expensive over time, meaning fewer dollars spent.

The counseling, particularly, is expensive — coupled with administrating the program, it cost 48 cents for every dollar loaned to small firms in 2006.

The countryside I traversed had little natural beauty, and most of the wild animals had been killed during the civil war; the souvenirs were five times as expensive as similar items in other countries; the Portuguese - influenced food was bland and boring; and when I asked for a doggie bag to take my leftovers back to my hotel, I got charged five dollars for the bag.

The drug is particularly valuable to insurance companies, who will pay top dollar for treatments that help patients avoid the ravaging and expensive - to - treat effects of Hepatitis C.

After all, the Bush administration's over-reliance on expensive independent contractors (for anything from painting walls and repairing trucks to interrogating prisoners and monitoring the performance of other contractors) is widely thought to have wasted billions of dollars.

Shanghai aluminum, nickel and lead crept higher, but copper gave up early gains to trade slightly lower as the dollar hit a four - month high, making the metal more expensive for holders of other currencies, and zinc slipped.

A stronger dollar makes greenback - denominated commodities more expensive for holders of other currencies.

«It's very expensive for Europeans, say financial institutions, to buy Treasuries... so its going to deter people from buying Treasuries and its going to encourage dollar - based investors to invest overseas,» Chandler said.

It's easy to save for the next down payment, even in the expensive Denver market, when you don't have to pay any rent or mortgage at all, and have thousands of dollars in passive income from the first few house hacks!

The more valuable the Canadian dollar is, the less expensive it is for Canadian teams to buy U.S. dollars to cover their expenses.

Put simply, when you exchange your dollars for euros, those dollars now buy more euros, making just about everything — from hotels to food — less expensive.

1) not at the top tax bracket yet, thus less expensive to have taxable dollars; 2) before 35, generally significant expenses such as house purchase, engagement ring, wedding, etc.; 3) keep liquidity for potential opportunities — «cash is king»; 4) use after - tax dollars to buy RE and rent it out for another stream of passive income, which is generally not taxable due to depreciation — could be a retirement vehicle in itself.

In any case, the year - long decline has been a short - term tailwind for gold, which is priced in U.S. dollars and, therefore, becomes less expensive for foreign buyers when it sinks.

If it does increase interest rates, the dollar would be bound to strengthen, making oil trades (which is settled in dollars) more expensive for buyers holding other currencies.

About 43 percent of the island's 3.3 million residents live below the poverty line, so the dollar amount of the damage may be lower than for places like Houston, Texas, with large homes and expensive industrial facilities.

More importantly for his economic programme, higher interest rates in the US will act like a honeypot for foreign investors... [S] ucking in foreign cash has a price and that is an expensive dollar and worsening trade balance....

My multi-million dollar marketing budget included tens of thousands of dollars a month for a public relations agency, hundreds of thousands a year for print advertising and glossy collateral materials, and expensive participation at a dozen trade shows a year.

He also notes that the U.S. dollar (US$) has become an expensive barrier for Canadian investors.

As difficult as it can be to save up a 20 % down payment, the hundreds of dollars in PMI that it will save you could make the difference between being able to afford a slightly more expensive home and having to settle for less.

A stronger dollar is negative for gold demand as it makes the metal more expensive for holders of other currencies.

As an aside, the further the dollar weakens the more expensive it will be for the US to purchase foreign goods, which will lead to higher inflation.

Dollar - denominated assets such as gold are sensitive to moves in the dollar — a fall in the dollar makes gold less expensive for holders of foreign currency and thus increases demand for the precious Dollar - denominated assets such as gold are sensitive to moves in the dollar — a fall in the dollar makes gold less expensive for holders of foreign currency and thus increases demand for the precious dollar — a fall in the dollar makes gold less expensive for holders of foreign currency and thus increases demand for the precious dollar makes gold less expensive for holders of foreign currency and thus increases demand for the precious metal.

If you want coverage for a fixed period of time, such as 10 or 15 years, term life insurance will be your least expensive option, and you can purchase hundreds of thousands of dollars in coverage.

Coconut water is pretty expensive locally, and I was pleased to find it on Amazon for over a dollar less per bottle!

Look at Nate and Nick, they have money, have their own businesses from their own academies, clothing brand, marijuana - related products... sometimes Nick Diaz gets $ 15 - 20K just to show up at a party for damn sake... they hang out with all the famous artists and rappers, they get invited to events just to light up a joint, people design customised weed joints for them that costs thousands of dollars... but cant remember the last picture Nate posted bragging about money or expensive jewellery...

Best Maternity Jeans That Aren't Hundreds of Dollars Somehow I can't bring myself to buy maternity jeans that are expensive, so I have been on the hunt for less expensive ones that will fill the bill.

They're also one of the most expensive items for babies, costing anywhere from one hundred to over a thousand dollars — times two for twins!

«It gets very expensive, so we're looking for any way possible to maximize the local dollars,» White said.

I'll be posting an in - depth look at cloth diapers vs. disposable diapers soon, but for now, suffice it to say that cloth diapers, even the most expensive ones, are way cheaper than disposable diapers — we're talking thousands of dollars in savings before that little one is potty trained.

I bought $ 60 worth of outfits (about 10) to carry this baby till about 6 months, and the onesies you can buy for a dollar each... As far as daycare, my mom watches my kids for free, but we can get fulltime day care for the 2 kids for about $ 200, I just do nt feel comfortable with them being away from family yet... And financially expensive as it is to have kids, this is my second, Just starting my career, and we can afford nice stuff and home without cutting back on the things we love.

I agree it is Wholefoods disciples pushing for excessively expensive school foods be served to all students (much of which they only toss in the garbage) to be paid for with increasing tax dollars from middle and lower class taxpayers.

«We all recall that Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi or Saviour of the World in English, was bought for 450million dollars in New York, in November 2017, shattering the record for the most expensive artwork ever sold.»

Last year, Cuomo announced a plan that would have used state funds to pay for college for prison inmates, arguing that the investment would save taxpayer dollars in the long run because incarceration is more expensive than education.

Field organizing takes TIME, and an expensive primary season didn't leave the Mitt resources for luxuries like millions of dollars in staff fees in January — he was spending money as it came in, mostly on TV and the basic logistics of keeping a campaign on the move.

Mr. Cuomo also proposed budgeting an extra $ 1 billion in education funding this year, a $ 2 billion investment in clean - water infrastructure and various other expensive projects, including hundreds of millions of dollars in economic - development for Buffalo ($ 500 million), a life sciences research and development cluster ($ 550 million) and new airports in Syracuse and Plattsburgh.

He first served in office from 1991 until 2003, when he was convicted of 16 federal charges stemming from a scheme to steer city contracts in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars in expensive wine, custom clothes, cash and home improvements.

Correcting the name of the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge to reflect the two z's in the name of the 16th - century Italian explorer for which the span was christened would could millions of dollars and therefore is too expensive to undertake, transportation officials say.

In case of such exercise of the contractual remedy by Ameri, the financial credibility of Ghana will be tarnished and every dollar borrowed through international funding will be expensive for the economy.

There is also 150,000 dollars to help local governments pay for treatment once someone is bitten by an infected animal, which Ritchie said is expensive.

The race for the GOP nomination is expected to be a bitter and expensive battle, with outside groups pouring thousands upon thousands of dollars into the race.

Of sentimental value is the million dollars being appropriated for the renamed Maurice D. Hinchey Catskill Interpretative Center at Mount Tremper, now one of the Catskills» more expensive parking lots.

STATEN ISLAND — One city agency under constant criticism from the Staten Island borough president for its late and expensive work got the OK to build a new office closer to its critic — at a cost of about half a million taxpayer dollars a year.

More than a third of the state's money is spent on Medicaid, making it a necessary and obvious target for cuts, and yet each year the same ritual plays out: The governor proposes cuts to health care; the state's hospital lobby and the union representing health - care workers spend millions of dollars in maudlin TV ads decrying the cuts — on top of the millions they contribute to elected officials; the governor's poll numbers decline, and he agrees to an expensive truce that barely makes a dent in rising Medicaid costs.

Aside from raising the millions of dollars needed for campaign advertising in one of the nation's most expensive television markets, Bharara, as an independent, would need to pull together a statewide organization of paid staff and volunteers that could compete with get - out - the - vote efforts run by the Democratic and Republican Parties, particularly in a year when they'll be running gubernatorial campaigns.

In addition, breast MRIs are too expensive for routine use in the general population, running $ 2,000 to $ 6,000 a test compared with a few hundred dollars for a mammogram.

Tests rely on either expensive equipment for computer - assisted analysis or, in hospitals that can not afford thousands of dollars» worth of machinery, a technician who analyzes sperm cells under a microscope, a process Shafiee says can be subject to human error.

Well, remember that the courtroom battle will often cost the offending company millions of dollars as well: It may be less expensive for them to just pay you a small license fee, rather than pay a lot of money trying to make you go bankrupt.

A more expensive option is a so - called dynamic lighting system, which promises to re-create «the full range of natural daylight in an interior space» for hundreds to thousands of dollars depending on the size of one's home or office.