Sentences with phrase «so looking at the year»

What's more, as Buffett points out, he's a long - term investor, so looking at the year - to - year investment and return on a given business doesn't make a lot of sense.

Not exact matches

Looking back over the years, I think I might have played a small part in his career — at least I hope so.

At the time, each day seemed to pass really quickly — since each day meant I was one day closer to missing my deadline — but because I have so many detailed memories, looking back, the year feels like it passed really slowly.

Due to the number of seasonal workers in Canada, there is naturally a great deal of seasonality in the data, so it is helpful to look at year - over-year numbers.

«When we look at the world, there's plenty of things to worry about, so we would anticipate there could be episodes of higher volatility in the second half or even next year,» cautions Bruce Cooper, chief investment officer at TD Asset Management.

We're getting guys who do this over and over again, so if you look at the number of companies that have been bought in M&A over the last 20 years, it's something like 1,500.

If you look at the amortization of that cost over a 10 - year period, it doesn't seem so bad.

Few technology trends last more than a few years, let alone several decades, so it is important to take a look at why big data continues to be a force in the technology sector.

But the next minute you look at reinvesting in that infrastructure it's going to be intimidating compared to the cost of the cloud, because the cost of the cloud is plummeting so fast that if you're going to go replace your server farm with a new server farm, you're looking at money that might buy you 10 years worth of cloud service, which would get you through yet another generation of on - premise replacement.»

So if you're looking to buy an apartment or house in the next two to four years, you want to have that savings in cash, said financial advisor Roger Ma, founder at Lifelaidout in New York.

With at least 10 retail bankruptcies so far this year among major U.S. chains and waves of individual store closures, traditional brick - and - mortar shopping looks wobbly.

So we took a couple of years to do soil studies and climate studies: Looking at soils at different times of the year, looking at moisture levels, at holding capacitiesLooking at soils at different times of the year, looking at moisture levels, at holding capacitieslooking at moisture levels, at holding capacities, etc..

When it bought Blackcomb Mountain, then just six years old and suffering growing pains, from a subsidiary of Aspen Skiing in 1986, it wasn't looking at the then state - of - the - art lifts so much as the developable land around the base of the hill, which bordered on the new Whistler Village.

He just looked at me the way he had, so many years ago, when we'd watched those geese.

Well it's been two years and three IPads, so its a good time to step back and look at how my life as a heavy consumer of news has changed.

Mine was at IBM for many years, so he can say, «Look, I was in a similar situation, and here's the way I worked it out.»

But ultimately the dollar, because our country is going to get so much stronger economically, if you look at what's happened to our country over the — look, I've been talking about this with you for 25 years.

So while employees may look like they're busily typing away at their desks this time of year, odds are they're actually being far more productive with their Christmas shopping than with actual work.

There is a great deal of volatility in the M2 money supply data even year - to - year, so I prefer to look at a three - year increase of the money supply.

So dumb, in fact, that when he handed me the papers to sign years earlier, I didn't even bother to look at what I was signing, trusting that everything was in order because he said it was.

In two weeks, it will be 26 years since Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, so we thought it time to take another look at Suess's photos.

So, it looks as if entrepreneurs and cities are probably better off growing their presences at a perennial event than chasing to import a one - off event every four years, if they can.

So you look at certain people when they've been around for fifteen or twenty years and get to a level of seniority, their weaknesses become exaggerated either because they become ingrained or because they're just more exposed at a more senior level, and so people need to compensate for their weaknesseSo you look at certain people when they've been around for fifteen or twenty years and get to a level of seniority, their weaknesses become exaggerated either because they become ingrained or because they're just more exposed at a more senior level, and so people need to compensate for their weaknesseso people need to compensate for their weaknesses.

«Thousands of years of men innovating society and a single generation where women start to do better (in school and so forth) and rather than looking at the big picture, we're free to generalize, so long as those generalizations are harmful only to men.»

I wanted to get into renewable energy, but when I first looked at it, the payback period was so long, something like 10 to 15 years.

During its first six years, the company grew so fast that its burgeoning revenues and proportionate profits prevented Nikollaj, a rookie CEO with a background in biochemistry, from taking a hard look at expenses.

We look at iconic brands, whether they're two years old or 100 years old, and try to learn from them so hopefully Herschel can one day be a heritage brand that's still here after we're long gone.

Another way of looking at it is that the voters already have decided — they elected the provincial government that put into place the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act 20 or so years ago.

I'm a 30 - year veteran of entrepreneurship, and it seems like every seven years or so I find an idea that seems obvious to me, but no one else is looking at.

I have warned about this publicly for years whenever asked about crowdfunding but now that abuse is becoming so transparent that I believe the SEC should begin looking more closely at crowdfunding platforms.

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

And now that our careers are going, we're looking at maxing out two traditional 401Ks and two Roth IRAs this year, and we see the Roth IRA portion as a small hedge against rising future tax rates (or what I think is a bit more likely to happen — tax brackets that don't keep pace with inflation, so keep sucking in more and more people to higher brackets).

If a company posted its best earnings of the last five years two years ago and has been lackluster since, perhaps it's under increasing competitive pressure, so have a look at qualitative factors showing what's going on.

thinking about that as a niche, or at least the jewelry... not sure - I am too overwhelmed right now and just hoping it gets a little easier or slightly less terrifying... been looking for online work that did not seem like a total scam for almost a year now, and so far has not felt easier or less exhausting and have had no results yet....

So the issue here is if we subtract the noise, which is noisier this year than we've been exposed to, we have to look at what's actually happening.»

Most online lenders require at least a year in business, so they might not be a good place to look for startup capital.

So Bank staff have updated the analysis that they did last year by looking at more than 4,000 export categories.

Looking at the S&P Case - Shiller 20 city composite index as a sanity check no your fraudulent claim shows that since 2009 the index has only advanced 20 %, that means that on say a $ 500,000 your home equity due to appreciation would roughly be $ 100,000, so you would have to had put down close to $ 150,000 as a down payment, yet you did this on one income and you have kids and you make only $ 130,000 / year, sorry doesn't add up.

Fair, so let's look back at the period from 1950 - 1981, when the ten - year rate went from 2 % to 15 %.

Republicans argue that 2018 is a better year to look at than 2027, as they argue that, despite writing the bill so that individual cuts expire, they hope to make them permanent in the future.

«I found myself out of work a few years back and, at my age (62), it wasn't looking like I would find anything suitable, so it was a bit of a dilemma,» explains Paul Jones.

Looking at the year - to - date so far, the comparisons are more balanced, with the Dogs down 1.7 %, versus 1.4 % for the entire Dow.

Even so look at how many years it has taken bitcoin to attract merchants.

With so little time left in the year, many wonder whether bitcoin can still break $ 800, a feat that still looks at least marginally possible at one point.

We've been running it for about a year now, so we know when the pumps come on, we know what the load profile looks like and we can provide lots of data to our partners at Advanced Microgrid Solutions.

I have spent the last year or so, looking at mostly US based stocks and specifically those that have performed the best over the past 3, 5 & 10 year time periods.

And so, his observation, and this is looking at real data about retirees, is that the early retiree years, so just after you retire at 65 or whenever that might be, tend to be the higher spending years in many retirees» plans; and that is because maybe they have pent up demand to do stuff with their money — whether it's travel or other leisure activities.

And so James and I had looked at it in many different ways, and we believe, as our target, that we'll be able to get to cash flow neutral from operations probably towards the end of the coming fiscal year, FY15.

In much of the coverage which has followed this announcement, the level of misinformation has been high, so I am going to use this post to look back at fiscal year 2012 - 2013, to parse some of the statements made by the Premier and others, and to take a look ahead.

Rick Rieder: So I think people — the benchmark 10 - year, the 3 % that people are looking at, there's a lot of focus on — I think it's a big deal, but I think it's a big deal that yields are moving higher.