Sentences with phrase «of the worst deals of»

Oâ $ ™ Leary was a failed and unethical businessman, who sold a sham of a company to Mattel, the toy manufacturer, in what Businessweek later called one of the worst deals of all time.

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that might result in an even «badder» deal than his predecessor signed with Iran or forcing him to storm out of the negotiations in a huff.

(You can find lots of blog entries out there about why extended warranties on small electronics are generally a bad deal.)

In these cases, eventually you get to a bad result - either because no deal gets done or - far worse - because the entrepreneur grudgingly and half - heartedly accepts a deal that he's unhappy with and angry about for what he thinks is the good of the business.

Indeed, if the deal collapsed it would be at the hands of the Trump administration, following the president's repeated declarations that the deal was «insane» and the «worst ever.»

The banking system has been weak for years as most institutions have failed to deal with the high level of bad debt in the wake of the financial crisis.

In the study sample of 60 different inversion deals, approximately 15 - 20 percent of shareholders fell into this long - term investor category and were made worse off from the inversion.

If Trump doesn't live up to his deal - making promises we could face another four years of legislative stalemate — which for many businesses may not be such a bad thing either.

Two Italian banks have proposed a deal to settle shareholder lawsuits as they try to raise billions of dollars to cover bad loans.

These acquisitions may revive ailing towns» hopes of rescue by the rich, deals that got a bad rap after Kim Basinger bought Braselton, Ga., for US$ 20 million in 1989, then had to sell it to a developer four years later for just US$ 1 million.

The Treasury report concluded that all types of Brexit — from membership of the European Economic Area to crashing out without a deal — would be worse for the economy than staying in the bloc.

So the Saudi investment may be more of a deal about the future of Uber's business, rather than whether it is a good or bad buy right now.

Plus, bad deals, real heroes and a comic recap of RIM's rotten year in our annual scorecard of the year that was.

Towards the end of the mid-2000s buyout binge, Blackstone and others were making some bad deals that the sovereign wealth funds didn't know about, or ignored.

In the latest twist in the legal battle, Ripple filed a counterclaim in New York state court that accuses R3 of signing the deal in bad faith, and using the partnership to steal its expertise in order to develop a competing product.

U.S., Mexican, and Canadian trade negotiators meet this week in Washington DC for the first of seven lightning rounds to reshape what Trump calls the «the worst trade deal» ever signed, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

In fact, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business once ranked O'Leary's deals among the 10 worst U.S. acquisitions from 1994 to 1996.

Projects and deals can fall through, you can have a bad quarter of business, and you can have a few bad weeks with your diet but it's still a temporary thing because you don't have to accept it as a permanent reality.

«You know I think the way we deal with the tax bill is by being honest about it, saying across time the very significant tax reductions for groups and parts of our economy that really weren't needed will hurt the fiscal condition of the country and put us in a bad position as it relates to other priorities we have,» Delaney said.

Some of her remarks give fresh fuel to liberals» worst fears about Clinton, namely that she is a political moderate, happy to cut backroom deals with corporate interests and curry favor with Wall Street for campaign dollars.

The most telling part of the deal is that Google will retain many of Motorola's patents as well as its advanced research and development unit, which is too bad in a way because it probably means we won't be seeing innovative phones like the Moto X from the new Lenovo - owned entity.

If we take the lump sum, then, we end up seeing that the expected value of a ticket drops further below zero, to - $ 0.71, suggesting that a ticket for the lump sum is also a bad deal.

In spite of the logical need to modernize the 23 - year old agreement, we may end up with no deal or worse — the very real prospect of President Trump posing for the cameras to show off his signed executive order declaring America's intent to withdraw from NAFTA.

«NAFTA, which is under renegotiation right now, has been a bad deal for U.S.A. Massive relocation of companies & jobs,» the president said in a tweet Monday.

It has become reassuringly common to dismiss Trump's hyperbole as the hardball negotiating tactics dished out in his book The Art of the Deal — bluster that will eventually give way to some measure of compromise and an updated NAFTA — but the dire news trickling out from the talks is forcing a harsh rethink, and there's growing reason to fear the worst.

Dealing with this kind of system and the bad loans that have been made because of it, present a formidable challenge for the government, he said.

Here are our picks for the worst deals of 2014.

I sat in many tense meetings when the guys from Microsoft tried to give people amazing deals on Azure (which Microsoft eventually offered as a cloud alternative) and it was as if they were offering to give these people a bad case of acne.

Simply put, this Spruce Goose of a deal must be considered among the worst in the history of Manhattan real estate.

It's a threat the President has repeated on multiple occasions, having at various times called NAFTA the «worst trade deal in the history of the world» and «the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world» and all terrible points in between.

Bad leverage results in one person winning and the others losing — typically a consequence of working with bad people — whereas in good leverage situations, all parties can benefit from the outcome of the transaction or deBad leverage results in one person winning and the others losing — typically a consequence of working with bad people — whereas in good leverage situations, all parties can benefit from the outcome of the transaction or debad people — whereas in good leverage situations, all parties can benefit from the outcome of the transaction or deal.

In an unexpected move, the United States is upgrading Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers to the so - called «Tier 2 Watch list», a status that could smooth the way for an ambitious U.S. - led free - trade deal with Malaysia.

EASTWOOD: Iraq, I know was a different deal because there was a lot of intelligence that told us that bad things could happen there and we're never sure how that ended up whether it was pro or con or no, I tend to err on the side of less is best.

However, it's not all bad news, Eurasia Group's chairman said, giving the Iran deal a 35 percent chance of survival.

I got out of my bad deal and went into a wholesale distribution model.

At Tim Hortons, where the company is dealing with the fallout of bad publicity from its reaction to minimum wage increases in the country, comparable sales fell 0.3 percent in the quarter.

Unfortunately, bad things have a way of snowballing — or «going viral» — on the Internet, so it's possible that a bad hit to your reputation can become a big deal if you handle it poorly or fail to handle it at all.

The company has reportedly shifted its TV - to - movie ratio from «20/80 to 60/40» over the last few years, and has inked exclusive deals for hot shows with networks such as AMC (home of Breaking Bad and Mad Men).

And remember: There's nothing worse to marketers than having to deal with an aggressive marketer — especially at a conference of this scale.

The deal, which was backed by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, avoided a collapse of the venerable investment bank suffering under the weight of bad mortgage debt.

You are now dealing with the executor of Aunt Irma's estate, who may be 1) a greedy relative who sees the «gift» as an investment for which the estate is entitled to a substantial piece of your business, 2) a local estate lawyer whose main purpose in life is to squeeze as many assets out of the estate as possible so as to maximize their fees, or 3) someone even worse.

Last year, Chanos voiced questions about the profitability of Tesla's business, and called the deal between the electric automaker and solar solutions firm SolarCity a «shameful example of corporate governance at its worst.»

One, [in] Afghanistan, the British had never been successful there; the Russians had 10 years there and hadn't been successful... Iraq, I know, was a different deal, because there was a lot of intelligence that told us that bad things could happen there, and we're never sure how that ended up, whether it was pro or con.

Sales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.»

He vowed to bring jobs back by renegotiating what he called bad multilateral trade deals in favor of bilateral ones.

Trump, who blamed the deal for destroying American jobs, called it «one of the worst deals ever» during an October debate with Hillary Clinton.

For better or worse, this year's study hands a big talking point to the campaign of Top State Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia, a Republican touting his economic record in his bid for a second term.

Take ad agency veteran and founder of Deep Focus Ian Schafer, who tweeted that it was «obvious that Cambridge Analytica was a bad actor, but I'd also bet that they would say anything to close a deal.»

Indeed, Trump has been campaigning on the popular promise to bring back jobs to the U.S. To do so, he has stated his intent to pull out of NAFTA, or what he calls «the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere.»

The idea of paying more for privacy is unusual and would require a major shift to current thinking, but it might not be a bad deal in the grand scheme of things if it leads to keeping companies and governments out of our business.