Sentences with phrase «sum game»

A referendum is a zero - sum game of winner takes all, no matter how tiny the count is between the winners and losers.

Still others fall in the middle, seeing other nations as rivals and viewing economics as a zero - sum game in which, when the home country loses, other countries win.

It's time to stop the zero - sum game where regions merely pull jobs from each other with expensive tax incentives and call it economic development.

However, just because new people bring new money into the game doesn't make it a positive sum game for the participants.

Pension plans and creditors find themselves in a zero - sum game with not enough money to go around.

The casino analogy only works with negative sum games, the more low value games you play the closer your results will be to the «odds» of the game.

It is hard enough making money in positive sum games like stocks and bonds.

But where is the evidence of a zero - sum game at play?

It's a zero - sum game because in the end everyone loses.

In short, in a zero - sum game as this, the pain of losing $ 5,000 is greater than the joy of winning an equal amount.

Short - term mutual fund trading is a zero sum game played against other very well informed mutual fund traders and other securities market traders.

A zero sum game means that this playground does NOT allow a win - win situation.

This is what makes it evil rather than just normal nasty corporate capitalism, because it turns what should be a positive - sum game into a zero - sum one.

In fact, it's less than a zero - sum game once you factor in the trading costs involved.

But this isn't a zero sum game right?

I think there's also a zero - sum game situation there.

That's the way the zero - sum game works.

And gambling, that's a great point, in a negative sum game why doesn't loss aversion over power the thrill of the win?

Net investment performance short - term and long - term is a zero sum game across all investors.

Investment markets are efficient, and operate according to a zero sum game structure.

Investing is a zero - sum game before costs and a negative - sum one after costs.

This is, or at least should be, a zero sum game out of a set pool of net income every year.

Investing is a zero - sum game where you compete against tough competition.

Could that be a zero - sum game for other stocks — and the companies attached to them?

It's a way of collaborating, getting win - win solutions, rather than the zero - sum game of divorce litigation.

It's a zero sum game at this stage.

A zero sum game in which parents are working overtime to make certain that their children are among the winners.

In the president's budget blueprint, we see this is a zero - sum game with clear winners and losers.

The stock market is a positive sum game because companies grow their earnings and dividends over time.

They don't have an expected rate of return — in fact, after expenses options are a negative sum game.

A zero sum game means that your loss is somebody else's gain, and vice versa.

What looks like a zero sum confrontation can, with a little goodwill, be transformed into a mutually beneficial nonzero sum game.

As David Dayen wrote for The New Republic during the first round of the Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes, «[T] hey're worse than a zero - sum game between metropolitan areas; they're net - negative, because the corporation extracts the subsidy while cities lose revenue that would otherwise go to education or infrastructure investment to benefit the common good.»

The principle states that: «In a globalized world, security can no longer be thought of as a zero - sum game involving states alone.

Couples need to break the zero - sum game pattern by emphasizing (once again) empathy and understanding.

I can't have a huge amount of sympathy for anyone who's decided to build a career on a zero - sum game whose rules and rewards are set by a third party that can unilaterally change those rules at no notice and that doesn't have their best interest at heart.

CDS contracts are commonly regarded as a zero - sum game within the financial system, as there is always a buyer for each seller of CDS contracts, as with all other OTC derivative contracts.

With his thoughtful spins on classic take - out flavors (think pastrami wonton soup, kung pao chicken with rabbit instead of bird), chef Richard Hales ups the Chinese food and dim sum game in Midtown Miami.

> Cant blame players cos wen they fck up they don't get punished... > Always substitutes late... > Doesn't rotate squad and give other players sum game tym so they don't look lost wen come in wen we 2 - 1 down and under pressure.

no Mert did not win the world - cup, e was part of the squad andplayed sum games, but when the big games came (semi's and the final) he as dropped, every1 knows this, so stop trying to hype Per, we all know hes weak at the highest level

As for stimulating retail development around the stadium, retailing is a zero - sum game unless the population is growing, which ours is not.

There's no zero - sum game here.

Andis Sofianos, from the Department of Economics at the University of Heidelberg, said: «The core principle of working cooperatively and seeing the bigger picture also applies to international trade, where there is overwhelming evidence that free trade is a non-zero sum game i.e. all parties could benefit.

But in interactions before and after this high - stakes laugh - off, the film depicts an uneasy blend of supportiveness and competition, with each of Nina's peers understanding the zero - sum game despite the friendly banter.

The zero - sum game policymakers and profiteers would have us play in too many of America's cities and communities today is disgraceful and a diversion from our important task of making that goal a reality.

Once you factor in costs, that zero - sum game becomes a loser's game, where only a small number of competitors will earn outsized returns.