Sentences with phrase «real dollars because»

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But as I live in the real world, I buy gold, even though I am optimistic we'll get through this rough patch; because I simply don't trust the bas * % * ds who are driving this ship with 100 % of my money in dollars, or any fiat currency, for that matter.»

The third category of spending is called variable expenses because items here usually change in real terms, or dollar amounts, as the level of business activity increases.

Expensive oil made sense only because of the longest period ever of high oil prices in real dollars from late 2010 until mid-2014.

And that's the point, really: that increased demand for the Canadian dollar affects other industries precisely because it makes the REAL price of Canadian goods higher relative to the same goods produced in other countries, not just nominal price.

«Bitcoin is one example of a convertible virtual currency because it can be digitally traded between users and can be purchased for, or exchanged into, U.S. dollars, euros, and other real or virtual currencies.»

Ultimately, we see the dollar weakening against the euro as real rates in the Euro Zone become more positive and strengthen versus the yen because inflation in Japan is picking up due to accelerating wage growth.

But there's more to it than that, because the size of the Fed's footprint is ultimately determined, not by the dollar - value of the Fed's assets, but by the real demand for its liabilities.

«Whereas I said Bitcoin «isn't real» because it has no intrinsic or underlying value, that's certainly true of the dollar and other fiat currencies: there's nothing behind them either.

The strong dollar illusion is sold to the masses because the dollar is never compared against the real money of gold but only to its weak siblings of the -LSB-...]

I ask that specificaly because, for instance, at this very moment, 1 US dollar costs 3,96 Brazilian reals, but if I make this exchange through bitcoins, it's only 3,86 (plus some exchange fees, of course).

Before now, a gold bear market persisted not because the metal had lost its status necessarily, but because of the strong U.S. dollar and, more significantly, positive real interest rates.

I removed the percentage tracking because percentage increases may make me feel good, but it is real dollar amount increases that shows reality.

Profits Infinity is said to be started by Mark Bromovich, a former Blackstone real estate trader who lost everything in the financial crisis (because he had kept reinvesting his million dollar bonuses back into the real estate market) and became broke.

Considering it was a Mormon missionary who befriended my Grandfather and talked him into to joining the church at 70 years old, and than stole a million dollars worth of real estate from him, something the family knew nothing about until he was on his death bed, because he was too ashamed to tell anybody that he lost the family property.

First he would say «stop spending tax payer dollars on religious items, because I am, after all, not real».

They are banking on some real dollars from additional revenue streams (slide 15), but because they already have a ton of users now, they are attractive enough that they'll be able to raise capital for the time being (including a pending IPO).

Because most prices are already being set according to a $ 13 or $ 14 peso - dollar exchange rate they reason that this should have a limited effect on the real economy.

First people earn money for their own comfort, but in the low tens of millions of dollar range and up, most people who earn great wealth struggle to spend it as fast as they earn it, because at that point many of the things that they purchase (e.g. real estate and art) don't get used up and decline in value after you buy them.

It is clear that these fat cats who want the public to bail them out like AIG and Goldman Sachs; or the Speyer deal with Stuyvesant Town and a whole host of other scams, are organizing because they fear losing their «special treatment» like a West Street Headquarters will a half billion dollar real estate tax exemption; or the tax credits for complex real estate deals that made Related into a financial and real estate behemoth without really doing much to improve anything... It bothers these dukes and barons that the city helps the needy.

«I believe the Assembly is making a real srtatement about the state devoting greater dollars to education and I believe they're doing so because they know a tax cap will make it impossible for local communities to fund education,» Iannuzzi said.

«In real dollars it's not as high just because our home values are not as high as other places in the state.»

«Tenants are always on the defensive in Albany because of the millions of dollars the real estate lobby throws at our politicians every year,» said Michael McKee, Treasurer, Tenants Political Action Committee.

The only real reason to give these tax breaks to the big banks is because they are the big donors, and it is so important because it's billions of dollars out the door.

They cite a real case when fruit exporters from Chile lost millions of dollars in income after US customs officials banned imports of Chilean grapes and fruit for five days because a consignment from there was allegedly contaminated with cyanide (see This Week, 16 March 1991).

Coffee is a multi-billion dollar industry that has changed drastically in the last decade (and unfortunately not because coffee drinkers are moving back to real french press coffee makers).

I love that I spent a few dollars on chalk paint at Michael's and then a few dollars on real flowers (because storage is an issue right now — so I'll compost them once they are done being beautiful).

So when she says she is for public schools it is important that she distinguish between real public schools and charters that are only public because they get tax dollars.

By removing real estate as an obstacle, charters were able to focus on curriculum, students and school culture — especially important because New York charter students receive several thousand dollars less per pupil than children in district schools.

The dealership is so great because they treat their customers like real human beings instead of just walking dollar signs, they took the time with caring with my needs and when it came to the time with test driving, I already felt comfortable with selecting my vehicle.

** Spanish dollars are better known today as «pieces of eight» from the Spanish Peso de a Ocho, so named because each silver coin was worth eight reales.

It always makes me laugh when I hear about $ 99 smartbooks competing with netbooks because the only real difference in cost is a few dollars in silicon, plastic and battery.

It's a real benefit to the author because of each dollar increase I get approximately 75 % and that's in addition to the base royalty paid on the selling price of the book.

It is a store of value, as its price anticipates the degradation and strengthening of the dollar, because changes in real rates will persist on average for six years.

Many young professionals are intimidated by the prospect of investing in real estate because they believe that this type of venture will require an initial investment of thousands of dollars.

That was a stratagem that fell on deaf ears because you actually had to spend real dollars (rather than commission dollars), and you had to spend time out of the office.

Over the years, the dog had won over a million dollars for his owner but he ultimately decided to quit — not because he was mistreated or had become disabled but because «I found out that the rabbit I was chasing wasn't even real.»

For example, if the U.S. dollar appreciates against the Japanese yen, the real return to a U.S. dollar - based investor will be less than the return to a yen - based investor because of the stronger dollar.

He was able to put together the fastest million - dollar earning real estate professional team, and he was able to do so because he had the systems in personnel in place!

Credits are good — better than deductions, because they offset your tax obligation dollar - for - dollar and put real money in your pocket.

If that's so, then millions of investors lose trillions of dollars in buying power when stock prices crash and it never comes back (because it never existed in a real sense in the first place).

You buy a stock today with X yielding 5 % and later in 10 years or whatever say the price is 2X but the yield is still 5 % (so in real dollars you make double in dividends) and all this because once a company gives away dividends at 5 % it looks bad to reduce them to 2 %?

Valuating virtual currency differently than real world dollars can influence purchase decisions because players see items priced with the game's arbitrary values rather than real currency.

It's real simple: I own an iPad 3 not because I'm rich, but because I was able to save my money, ONE DOLLAR AT A TIME.

And this bothers me because it makes me feel partly like I've been taken for a sap, as fifteen - hundred full, real - life dollars left my pocket with me smiling all the way and in fact begging for more.

Wouldn't it have been great if Virginians had been able to use those millions of dollars productively to deal with the already very real impacts of climate change rather than to bury their heads in the sands because this attorney general wanted to not only discredit us, but send a message to all scientists in Virginia that... if you too decide to talk about the impacts of climate change then you too can be subject to a subpoena from the attorney general?

Ken, Virtually everybody who needs legal services for real estate transactions (because you either own or are able to buy an asset worth hundreds of thousands of dollars), wills (because you have assets), powers of attorney (usually ditto), estates (ditto), notarizations, incorporations and small business transactions (because you have the wherewithal to be starting, buying or selling a business) can easily afford the very modest fees charged for those services (fees that are less than and often far, far less than, as applicable, the government charges, the realtor charges, the accountant's charges, the moving van company, the new appliances, etc. etc. etc.).

No firms gain more by dragging out litigation than the big firms because they have the clients with the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars of capitalization who can afford, with the help of the taxpayer, to pay the astronomical fees they charge for as long as it takes to take on similar corporations similarly represented, or to squash the little guy (which is why FCT has McCarthy's on retainer and Stewart has Borden's on retainer — the given real estate file / title insurance claim is small potatoes but the title insurers make it dead obvious that if you sue them, you will up against a Big Firm.

Because... it's absolutely fascinating seeing the real stats on what's * actually * happening in an MMO (the data - mined stuff that the bigger devs and pubs spend millions of dollars on alone), as opposed to what is * perceived * as happening based on reading forums and playing the game as an individual.

Bitcoin is one example of a convertible virtual currency because it can be purchased for — or exchanged into — U.S. dollars, euros, or other real or virtual currencies.

A good example of this is the very case of the ethereum network, which has become very difficult to use for real things due to the high price of ether in U.S. dollars, and because the network is swamped with speculative applications and trading.