Sentences with phrase «money loser for»

In an interview published yesterday in Bloomberg Businesweek, for example, Pershing Square head Bill Ackman, who has been one of Borders» most active supporters in recent years, admitted the chain has turned out to be a money loser for his fund, to the tune of $ 125 million.

In a two year period I bought 6 places, but the two I forced, which it sounds like you're trying to do, never worked out in my scheme and one was a net money loser for me.

Buried in the agency's analysis is its prediction that the stringent new rule will be a money loser for a majority of consumers - that is, the higher purchase price of refrigerators meeting the new energy use limits won't be earned back by the reduction in electric bills.

Using Plastiq for rent to the extent that it becomes a money loser for banks is a little too niche, even for the churning / MS community

The solar industry has been nothing short of a total money loser for investors who have tolerated rapidly declining margins, changing subsidies, and intense competition.

A quiet and boring market is a money loser for them.

The mid-list was only a money loser for publishers when the publisher dropped the ball.

A mistake compounded by the fact that first - class mail has been in sharp decline over the past decade, which has turned package delivery into a big money loser for the U.S. postal service.

Not exact matches

While just months ago Tesla endured plenty of criticism for being a money loser, its share price has almost tripled since the start of the year, reaching $ 89 before noon on Thursday and increasing the company's market capitalization to $ 10 billion.

These services have typically been money - losers for the new entrants in the space, but are seen as the gateway to the next generation of payment and personal finance services that could upend traditional consumer banking relationships.

Cynics say the tax breaks provided to ESOPs are money losers because the majority of American taxpayers pay higher rates to make up for the cost of ESOP tax benefits.

As NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman leads the NHL into its latest war of revenge against Jerry Moyes for trying to recoup his losses by attempting to sell the Phoenix Coyotes to the outlaw buyer, Jim Balsillie, it is well to remember that his triumph in the courts over the now three time loser didn't change one ugly fact: the Phoenix Coyotes still lose huge sums of money every year.

Investors in Tesla must struggle with a fundamental question: Which is more important - building a product that consumers will pay a premium for (though is a money loser), or becoming self sustaining by generating ample free cash flow?

I dropped my broker, quit hunting for hot stocks and mutual funds (losers, all), and put my retirement money on automatic pilot.

I guess I feel the same way about a liberal agenda that say that to get out of debt we have to spend more, or that my tax dollars have to pay for something I think is morally wrong (Obamacare sets up a fund to pay for late term abortions) or a government that confiscates kids lunches, or tells me how much soda I can drink, or uses my tax money to choose winners and losers (mostly losers but Obma doners) in energy production that produces no energy yet we are sitting on more coal and oil than any other nation on the planet.

Your money first goes to pay for these losers before any «humanitarian good» is done with it.

There was sharp money on the «Noles once again, who were available at -2.5 for a very, very brief time but climbed to -8.5 during the week, so nearly all FSU tickets were losers on the spread.

He has been a long term loser and that he is still here is entirely down to the fact we have an owner and board who care nothing for honours, only for money.

It was fucking amazing even though my favorite fighter of all time Condit got finished anyways... Winner: The crowd — Everyone got their money's worth with the main and co-main event, but the entire main card was great IMO plus there was a freaking omoplata finish BY A HEAVYWEIGHT Loser: The crowd — From constant boos any time the fighters were on the ground for more than 10 seconds to «Whooo!»

As a friend of mine pointed out long ago, the winners don't get a lot more money than the losers in high school sports, so why would anyone risk their health for a victory that will most likely be forgotten in a few months?

You will have to settle either for a successful fat old 70 + y / o man or a loser closer to your own age with no money or looks.

My tip is if you feel you are being used for money by some loser guy, you ARE being used, and run run run immediately.

She was courted for the Senate position because, with Bloomberg behind her, the national party would not had to have contributed money to a race that was a sure loser.

«Unless there's expensive ongoing maintenance, big road projects can easily become giant money - losers for developing nations,» said Dr Alamgir.

hi my name is Brianna I am 6 foot 3 Amazonian Queen!I just got out of a relationship with a loser using me for my fixed income I'm looking for a man who can help me financially while I go to school and better myself so I can make my own money I want to get a business degree and start my own...

His character is a loser who gambles away money not because he has bad luck, but because he is lazy and doesn't give a shit enough to prepare for fights.

Producer Brett Ratner (yes, he's still around) has suggested that a sequel is a strong possibility, but that would be one pricey cast for a sequel to be anything but a potential money - loser.

The dumb loser Frank Muzzy invites his alcoholic friend and gravedigger Eddie to raise some money bootlegging US$ 250,000.00 in cigarettes for the powerful mobster Spider to Mexico.

When it rains it pours, as Larry's loser of a brother (Kind, The Wild) won't leave, his son (Wolff) can't keep out of trouble, and his daughter (McManus) is repeatedly pilfering money from under his nose — and then even his tenure is in question when anonymous letters start coming in questioning his character, made murky by the fact that a student may be trying to bribe him into giving him a passing grade and threatening defamation for the accusation.

Played for romantic comedy yuks rather than gravid melo - operatic contortions (and distinguishing itself from other products of the UK comedy mill by not featuring any old men and women or young boys naked), the picture follows the plight of shiftless loser, small - time criminal Jimmy (Robert Carlyle) as he steals a lot of money from three circus clowns and returns to his small Scottish burg to reclaim his lost love Shirley (the insufferable, simpering Shirley Henderson) and their daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins) from the clutches of mild - mannered simp Dek (Rhys Ifans).

School leaders have argued that a redistribution of how schools are funded, in a new funding formula, could avoid having any losers if this money, once announced for schools, could be returned.

Compared to high - selling indie, it's a money loser... but if you expect to have marketing chops & fan base for high - selling indie on first release, you wouldn't be losing a month's worth of income to pitch in this program.

And that, in turn, will transform the Kindle business from a big money - loser into a very profitable business for Amazon.

Basically, there are always people making money in the markets; in theory, for every loser there is a winner.

Charles Ellis's renowned The Loser's Game essay (1995) predicted the current state of events, in which fewer and fewer managers could separate themselves from the herd and make a compelling case for entrusting your money to them.

Understand that trading involves both winners and losers, and you will never make money if you aren't at least disciplined enough to stick with a method for six months or more.

In his 1985 book Investment Policy, Charlie Ellis built a case for market efficiency by arguing that active money management, like amateur tennis, is a loser's game.

It is easy to tell people to live their life and that they sacrificed their life and that they are a total loser when you've made it big, but for the majority of us it takes a very long time to make enough money to retire with wealth.

EA's responsibility is to EA and they'd only be throwing away money developing for a clear loser like Wii U.

The neo-medieval policy of picking winners — or rather losers — creates a salivating lobby for subsidies (even the RSPB takes money from wind farms to shut it up about their eagle killing).

Now that the bubble has turned out to be a money - loser for most of its participants (including the owners of both Right and Left media conglomerates) it will finally begin to fade.

Imagine how much more successful the salesperson would be if they knew in advance what films made the most money for the studio, which were the biggest losers, the target audience they wanted to reach and what kind of films the studio was looking for.

Astonishingly, Opposition Conservative Leader Jason Kenney, normally a harsh ideological foe of «picking winners and losers» with taxpayers» money, was apparently willing to make an exception for the oil industry.

ZDNet notes that Cortana is a big reason why Microsoft isn't selling Bing off anytime soon even though it's been a perpetual money - loser for the company.

As for the areas with the biggest losses of money, «Many of the biggest losers are places of high per - capita income so it makes sense that as people leave they take those big piles of cash with them,» says Matt Carmichael, editor at Livability.com.