Sentences with phrase «illusion of growth»

Nevertheless, both Skype for SIP and Skype for Asterisk are a Maybe it's a way to give an illusion of growth, making it easier for the company to be sold to a gullible buyer.

The interplay continues between algorithm and chaos, manufacture and the illusion of growth, gravity and weightlessness, but mathematical order has disappeared.

Sure, monetary policy — less politely known as printing money — has, and probably will, produce some (false) illusion of growth.

He added, `' While the PDP was emasculating Nigeria on all fronts, including social, economic and political, the rapacious party was deceiving Nigerians by giving them the illusion of growth and prosperity.

Takeovers are a form of corporate cannabilism that allows companies to perpetuate an illusion of growth without creating real added value through endogenous growth.

«The later stages of the 2009 — 2017 bull market are a valuation illusion built on share buyback alchemy... The technique optically reduces the price - to - earnings multiple because the denominator doesn't adjust for the reduced share count... Share buybacks are a major contributor to the low volatility regime because a large price insensitive buyer is always ready to purchase the market on weakness... Share buybacks result in a lower volatility, lower liquidity, which in turn incentivizes more share buybacks, further incentivizing passive and systematic strategies that are short volatility in all their forms... Like a snake eating its own tail, the market can not rely on share buybacks indefinitely to nourish the illusion of growth.

To maintain confidence and the illusion of growth central banks must continue to inflate the bond, equities, and currencies bubbles.

Certain activist investors love serial acquirers because they can create the illusion of growth by indiscriminately acquiring other companies.

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The illusion is growth in revenues, EBITDA, or non-GAAP metrics that overlook the price paid for the acquiree, which, more often than not, is so high that the real cash flows of the deal are highly negative and dilutive to shareholder value.

In addition to trillions in printed (electronically generated) currency, the Fed has been able to fabricate the illusion of economic growth with an enormous amount of credit creation.

Moreover, the common belief that corporate - profit growth justifies high corporate - debt levels neglects the role debt - funded buybacks have played in creating the illusion of corporate health (WILTW February 22, 2018).

There is just enough growth on offer this year — the ECB says 1pc — to sustain the illusion of recovery.

Yet, having led churches in other parts of the world, Vines is under no illusion about why such growth occurs in the USA: «If you go to the South, everyone goes to church.

Under the philosophy of development built on the illusion that change and growth are the same as progress and that any move, especially if it goes in the direction of control and exploitation of nature is to be desired, we have set up the Euro - American culture as the mark of development, and the acceptable level of human consumption.

If any of us ever had illusions that a reformist posture was sufficient, either from a theological perspective or as social policy, the intractability of governmental and economic systems, the growth of massive and seemingly uncontrollable systems of surveillance, military power, and mass culture increasingly narrow the scope of our options to those of resistance and withdrawal.

Where fantasy tends to split apart social worlds and to open up a Pandora's box of illusions, imagination fosters the growth of a common self - understanding.

For instance, texting delivers an illusion of intimacy, providing people the often favorable opportunity to limit emotional disclosure to text and emojis on a screen, dodge conflict, and evade relational connection, maintenance, and growth.

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The entire system characterized by the illusion of an unlimited growth and consumption is not sustainable in a finite world and the economic and social crises we are seeing in the last years are, undoubtedly, worrying signs of crumbling perspectives.

The SDGs are a challenge of global governance that need planetary consensus and this requires that all people become aware of the political and economic illusion of unlimited growth.

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Throttled quants everywhere were suddenly engaged in a prolonged bout of soul - searching, questioning whether all their brilliant strategies were an illusion, pure luck that happened to work during a period of dramatic growth, economic prosperity, and excessive leverage that lifted everyone's boat.

And just like the early»70s, investors have & will continue to exhibit a distinct preference for Nifty Fifty stocks, i.e. large cap / blue chip companies which guarantee (or at least offer the illusion of) predictable quality & growth in an uncertain economic & fiscal environment.

In an August post, Applying value principles at a country level, we discussed The growth illusion, an article appearing in a Buttonwood's notebook column of The Economist.

In The growth illusion, an article appearing in the most recent Buttonwood's notebook column of The Economist, Buttonwood argues that valuation, rather than economic growth, determines invest...

Unfortunately the hoped for decoupling of economic growth and use of materials seems an illusion:

To keep up the illusion that growth is making us richer we deferred costs by issuing financial assets almost without limit, conveniently forgetting that these so ‐ called assets are, for society as a whole, debts to be paid back out of future real growth.