Sentences with phrase «taken enormous hits»

But if the rich have done well in bubbles, they have taken enormous hits to their wealth during busts.

Sure, the US has in the past had a competitive advantage in financial services but much of that has been squandered in recent years as the US reputation for financial management has taken an enormous hit to its credibility.

But the South American nation did still take an enormous hit from the earthquake.

If you purchase two properties worth $ 200,000 each and an earthquake destroys one of them, you may take an enormous hit to your portfolio (assuming you don't have any sort of earthquake insurance, which can be prohibitively expensive).

Another use for life insurance that most younger individuals might not need or wouldn't be inclined toward really came to light in the last few years when our retirement portfolios took an enormous hit.

Not exact matches

It is easy to take credit after an idea strikes you, but in fact, neurons in your brain secretly perform an enormous amount of work before inspiration hits.

Cutting up takes an enormous amount of focus and for most people, it gets difficult right about the time that they are trying to hit single digits for body fat percentage.

Battle: Los Angeles finally hits a more blockbuster tone in the final act, where the squad takes on an enormous alien control ship using all of their resources and military instinct.

Then there's the antiquated infrastructure, held back by decades of economic stasis, in part from the embargo but also by the enormous hit the country took when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

«Whilst the PPF is an important and valuable support, UK final - salary pension schemes have an enormous deficit blackhole, which raises the inevitable question, «how many more big hits can the PPF take?

Despite Canada's limited hit this time around, we too carry an enormous debt load (estimated in the $ 1 trillion range), which will take an entirely different approach than we have taken up until now to pay off.

The banks did not even know how to handle them and were ill equipped to take on the enormous case load of thousands upon thousands of short sale files that hit their loss mitigation departments across the country from Florida, California, Arizona and Nevada.