Sentences with phrase «productive investment over time»

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And, if it is used to fund investment, it is also important how productive that investment turns out to be over time.

You'd think that corporate debt would grow in proportion to total sales, as this additional debt is used to fund investments in productive activities that create more sales and contribute to the economy, and that higher sales, and presumably higher earnings would create a proportionate increase in the value of the company, and thus in its stock price, and that they all go up together, not in lockstep but over time more or less at the same rate.

Teachers find over and over that this investment of time and effort is well worth the payoff of calm, productive, and joyful classrooms.

While I have written about the subject many times over the past twenty years, it seems productive to write to you about the disparities that exist between the analyses that goes into the bulk of Third Avenue Management's (TAM) equity investments on the one hand, and the beliefs and analyses that pertain to the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) on the other hand.