Sentences with phrase «public wealth went»

Giving them away for nothing ultimately resulted in windfall profits for some European companies: public wealth went straight to the private bottom line.

Not exact matches

Wozniak gained his fair share of wealth when Apple went public and is worth millions.

But as the company nears profitability, going public may be the best way to let employees share in the wealth, Karp says now.

But if Jet does what its investors think it will, either going public or getting acquired for billions of dollars, Martin's three - week referral sprint could have generated life - changing, generational wealth for him and his family.

There are numerous resources, public and private, that can provide your company a wealth of information and support when you decide to go global.

Economist Michael Hudson explains how economic terms like capital gains are deployed to mislead the public about who is benefiting from economic policy and where wealth is going.

This trend is part of the U.S.'s continued economic growth, where events like mergers and acquisitions, companies going public and increased real estate values are creating new wealth.

In cases where excess wealth was held until death, he advocated its apprehension by the state on a progressive scale: «Indeed, it is difficult to set bounds to the share of a rich man's estates which should go at his death to the public through the agency of the State, and by all means such taxes should be granted, beginning at nothing upon moderate sums to dependents, and increasing rapidly as the amounts swell, until of the millionaire's hoard, at least the other half comes to the privy coffer of the State.»

She's someone who has used her inherited wealth and the wealth that she's married into to try to distort and reshape our laws to advance her personal views, which are that we should basically redefine public education to mean our tax dollars should be going to fund private schools, religious schools, that advance her worldview.

His consortium of wealth management and consulting firms, called Global Silicon Valley Partners, helped K12 Inc. go public and has advised a number of other education companies in finding capital.

Inequalities of wealth and income have risen steadily for three decades, racial segregation continues, class segregation has deepened, and middle and working class families are fracturing in the face of this economic onslaught, but rather than face these fundamental realities politicians keep pandering to the public and putting forth an endless stream of quick fixes that don't cost any money and don't require real change & mdash as if cosmetic changes in schools are somehow going to offset decades of disinvestment in the public sphere and rising concentrations of poverty.

Jesper Madsen, lead manager of the Matthews Asia Dividend Fund, points out that many firms going public in Asia are family - owned and that the best way for the owners to take money out of a company is to pay dividends, allowing family members and investors to share the wealth.

The recent PlayStation 4 launch event in New York saw a wealth of news about the new console go public.

We know we aren't going to transform our economy overnight, but there is strong public support to take the wealth being generated by our fossil fuel resources and use it to accelerate our transition to a better, more sustainable economy, one where Canadians both sell and consume clean - energy technologies and services.

If the public is fully informed of the magnitude of the existing consensus in the scientific community, if the public is informed of how our modification of the atmosphere is effecting the climate, if the public learn of the magnitude of the effect those changes will have on the common wealth of the entire world, which I expect he would admit is necessarily going to be quite negative, and if the public are then presented with the choice of voting for a government which would take substantial meaningful action, does he suppose that the reaction would then be to do nothing?

In this they seem to have fallen upon a very good expedient for their own happiness and safety; for since the good or ill condition of a nation depends so much upon their magistrates, they could not have made a better choice than by pitching on men whom no advantages can bias; for wealth is of no use to them, since they must so soon go back to their own country; and they being strangers among them, are not engaged in any of their heats or animosities; and it is certain that when public judicatories are swayed, either by avarice or partial affections, there must follow a dissolution of justice, the chief sinew of society.

Though they trade at a lower price to its forward earnings multiple than at any time since Facebook went public, in 2012, the overall picture is one of astonishing growth and wealth.

Thus, interventions in adolescence that prevent or ameliorate the consequences of teenagers» mistakes might go far to improve the health, wealth, and public safety of the population.