One final
note about dollar cost averaging into the cryptocurrency market — it is a good idea to contact your bank before you make your first purchase.
Not exact matches
While gold is often considered an inflation hedge, Julius Baer said in a
note, the fact that price pressures were being driven by confidence
about growth rather than
dollar weakness and rising oil prices meant it was failing to react positively.
«But I think customers are choosing to spend their disposable
dollars in different ways, and that's part of the reason why we are not more optimistic
about the lower gas prices,» she added,
noting that consumers are spending more on cars, healthcare, electronics and home improvement, leaving little upside for Macy's.
And finally there was a question
about the impact of QE on the
dollar, to which he had a great answer,
noting that to discuss «the
dollar» is to really discuss two different concepts that are easily confused.
«It's not
about taking a bunch of
dollar bills and spreading them around,» said Deep Nishar, SoftBank's managing director,
noting that the company is looking at making similar investments in Europe and South America.
It should also be
noted, that Musk is
about half of Buffett's age, and he says a combined SolarCity and Tesla would be worth a trillion
dollars some day.
It's interesting to
note that our nation's banks own billions of
dollars of guaranteed, high - cash - value permanent life insurance —
about $ 135 billion of it, according to the latest available statistics.
As I've
noted before, if you want to know exactly when the U.S. economy is
about to weaken markedly, watch the
dollar.
To offset the crippling bank
note shortages impacting the country, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has been printing bond
notes (Zimbabwe's own version of US
Dollars) that are supposed to have equal value to the greenback but are actually trading at a premium of
about 30 % to the US
dollar on parallel markets.
It's worth
noting that our primary focus was on technologies that aided and improved primary care, which is
about half of the U.S. market in terms of revenue
dollars (there is no question that digital tools will successfully impact specific acute diseases / disorders, but it's our intuition these are best left to 100 % focused HC investors).
Another shareholder wrote in
about Coke,
noted that you declined to invest in the cigarette business on ethical grounds despite one saying, «It was a perfect business because it costs a penny to make, sell it for a
dollar, it's addictive, and there's fantastic brand loyalty».
And one may, without being unpleasant
about it,
note that the mainstream media and the scientific establishment who beat the drums for the necessity of killing embryos in order, they said, to find cures for all kinds of illnesses, along with politicians who agitated for multibillion -
dollar referendums in California, Missouri, and New Jersey, were, not to put too fine a point on it, dead wrong.
As author Penny Lernoux has
noted: «When the Alliance for Progress was finally buried at the end of the 1960s,
about the only thing that the Latin American countries had to show for it was an enormous foreign debt: 19.3 billion
dollars compared to 8.8 billion in 1961 when the program was launched» (Cry of the People [Doubleday], p. 211).
Plus, not only is it inexpensive (a 2014 study
noted a rotisserie chicken cost
about five
dollars less at any given supermarket versus a pound of the raw meat), but it also cuts down your cooking time by quite a bit.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli
noted today that the state's general fund has run a negative balance every day so far this month, which raises questions
about whether there will be sufficient funds on hand to pay billions of
dollars worth of bills that will come due before June is out.
As he
notes, Washington gives City Hall «almost one out of every 10 operational
dollars that the city spends,»
about $ 7 billion a year.
«Billions of
dollars in spending lacks key details that would better inform the public
about how their tax
dollars are being spent,» the comptroller
noted.
«We hear lots from teachers, parents, and kids
about the burdensome testing regimen, and a lot of it is a result of [federal] Race to the Top money,» said Horn, who
noted that those federal
dollars are coming to an end soon.
While this isn't theoretically unreasonable, it should be
noted that the current compensation ask would increase the current cost of OUSD's teacher compensation by
about $ 19.5 million
dollars more per year (follow the link to see the basis for this estimate).
More information
about the 2016 Nissan Versa
Note: As the least expensive car in America, the 2016 Nissan Versa offers exceptional value per
dollar.
With Kindle Unlimited, reading, in aggregate, is up 40 % for the 60 days after they join Kindle Unlimited, total
dollar spend is also up
about 25 % [Editor's
note: it was not clear if this included the cost of the subscription or not.]
A
note on ads: I warn indie authors all the time to be very careful
about where they spend their advertisement
dollars — partly because I'm stingy, but mostly because anyone can throw out a shingle and claim to reach readers for a price.
One reason private lenders may be getting more aggressive
about collections is that they've bundled up billions of
dollars in student loans into securities that are sold to investors, the AP
noted.
As
noted above, along with asking
about the interest rates and the fees, it's also important to know what the total interest cost — or total
dollar cost of the loan would be.
As I
noted in my last post, I'm still
about 50 % in cash and look to stay that way until I can find a $.20
dollar.
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The total cost depends on two factors: (a) the dividend yield of each holding that pays a dividend in US
dollars (
note that this may include both US - listed securities such as stocks and ETFs and
about a score of Canadian companies that are listed on the TSX but pay a dividend in US
dollars) and (b) the cost of converting US
dollars into Canadian
dollars at your broker.
Biden asserted that he was concerned
about the financial pressures of student debt,
noting that students «declare bankruptcy because they run up tens of thousands of
dollars in loans to go to college.»
An important
note about currency risk here: although you are buying in US
dollars, the underlying stocks are denominated in loonies.
Landa
notes that some «family - owned» manufacturers are really venture - capital - backed and / or venture - capital - founded and run, and certain companies that complain
about «big name pet food» competitors are billion -
dollar entities themselves.
IATA
noted that after adjustments for the stronger U.S.
dollar, worldwide air fares dropped by
about 5 percent last year from 2014.
To all of you please
note — If we can send a space craft to Mars that cost a billion
dollars between research and hard ware then its
about time we can invest in to America on our needs for energy and dig for oil in the United States and the arctic region.
France - based Total is the first oil supermajor aggressively to enter new areas of business including solar plus storage and distributed generation,
notes Lux Research in a new report: «Superpower Darwinism: What Big Oil Can and Can not Do
About Total's Billion -
Dollar Battery Move.»
IMO their estimate of the taxes needed to accomplish this were very low (and discussant Paul Joskow pointed this out in his included remarks,
noting that other people estimated these taxes as being 20 times bigger because they assumed that CO2 emissions would grow a lot faster without the tax), but for what it's worth they found a fairly small equivalent variation (loss) of
about $ 250 billion (in 1990
dollars) for the U.S. in carrying out this policy.
This blog links to news stories and studies
about law firms» marketing - related activities and makes
notes of those who are and aren't successful, advises law firms on how their marketing
dollars should be spent and reviews newly published books
about networking and marketing.
The FT report
noted that Narasimhan «has proved attention to detail can bring
about great legal innovation» and that «his forward thinking will enable billions of
dollars» worth of investment in the UK.»
As for David Bach, the man behind the idea that if you give up your Starbucks beverage every day you'll be able to build up a million -
dollar retirement account, Olen
notes that the amount of savings Bach promises are
about 5 times higher than reality if you actually run the numbers.
Keep «kudos» emails and
notes about project specifics — especially scope - and - scale information like percentages, numbers, and
dollar figures.
Also of
note, a 2005 study by Margaret Brinig on the effects of presumptive joint custody laws found as follows:»... [S] eparation after the custody statute took effect, holding other things constant, was statistically significantly related to a decrease in the absolute
dollars of child support awards, with a difference of
about $ 80 a month.
At the end of 2007, the fund acquired some $ 300 million first mortgage, B -
note and mezzanine loans for
about 80 cents on the
dollar, according to Michaels.
Interesting what you said
about 2008 because I brought that up - I think he said he gets his
notes at a large discount like 50 cents on the
dollar.
Mitchell Kiffe, director of multifamily underwriting,
notes, «We bought
about a billion
dollars of multifamily mortgages in 1994 and we expect to target $ 1.5 billion in 1995.»