Profit
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It is the combination of the last two factors – an overabundance of banks with no sustainable way to turn a
profit
– that constitutes the most serious and most difficult problem.
It means betting against an asset with borrowed money in the expectation of making a
profit
when its value goes down.
My
profit
for correctly taking this bearish view is therefore €1.65m – the €9.1m
Besides, it is not like there is huge
profit
for G-8 leaders in trying to collect coins from impoverished peoples living on a dollar a day.
Tragically, such losses never appear on the
profit
sheets measured by accountants.
Better policy coordination can
profit
from improved analytical work on the linkages between financial developments and the real economy.
The banker wants last year’s bonds to be paid (creating an incentive to safeguard stability) but wants a high payment this year (creating an incentive to maximize profit, which usually entails risk-taking).
Firms cannot be allowed to
profit
from damaging content, while shrugging off responsibility for its consequences.
This may contradict the straightforward business logic of doing whatever maximizes
profit
and shareholder value.
Nobody will be inspired to increase investment in China if they cannot trust that the economy will eventually enable them to turn a
profit.
For example, if
profit
can be made by understanding the model behind a policy, as is surely the case with the models used by the United States Federal Reserve, sooner or later so much capital will seek that
profit
that the tail will begin to wag the dog, as has been happening lately.
Suppose oil prices remain high,
profit
forecasts continue to fall, and the new Administration unsettles the markets.
Now we are free to enjoy and
profit
from our growingcontacts with literary comrades (a word that may have poisonous associations inthe former communist countries, but that continues to be used here for its connotationof genuine human solidarity) from our own continent and with whomever willinvite us to their countries or, even better, come to ours.
While the American melting pot transforms others, Chinatowns teach their inhabitants to adjust – to
profit
from their hosts’ rules and business while remaining separate.
They hope to
profit
from the voters’ anger against whomever can be held responsible for the current situation.
Consider Apple power cords (the item that I lose most often), which are a huge source of
profit
for all involved.
It is an investment with enormous potential for prosperity and
profit.
Apple’s current stand could cause it to suffer in the massive Chinese market – or
profit
immensely if it complies.
If I, as a person, believe in protecting the environment, or seek in my personal life and business to protect my own security and privacy, I cannot abandon those beliefs in the boardroom in the name of
profit.
The real cost of the crisis is not measured by the
profit
and loss statement of any central bank – or by whether or not the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), run by the Treasury Department, made or lost money on its various activities.
It embodied the conviction that goods and services vital to Indians’ economic well-being must remain in Indian hands – and not in the hands of Indians seeking to
profit
from producing and selling such goods and services, but rather in the disinterested hands of the state, the father and mother to all Indians.
Far from seizing on deregulation to improve their own
profit
margins, at the expense of consumers and communities, companies should be working hard to boost transparency.
As they do,
profit
margins will fall: competition will become swifter, stronger, more pervasive, and more nearly perfect.
The future of technology is bright; the future of the
profit
margins of businesses--save for those few that truly are able to use economies of scale to create mammoth cost advantages--is dim.
So, what NASDAQ's crash tells us is that the new economy is more likely to be a source of downward pressure on
profit
margins than of large, durable quasi_rents.
A debt buyback is something of a Catch 22: to succeed in inducing a haircut, it needs to
profit
from the default fears that it intends to alleviate.
They should not only be able to withstand volatility; they should be primed to
profit
from stress and chaos.
Assuming 2.5% average annual inflation, a modest €0.15
profit
per kWh in 2020-2045, and a conservatively estimated annual yield of 70 GWh per square kilometer, these countries’ debt could be reduced by up to 30%.
But the bail-in of private investors, much applauded in Germany, is of secondary importance, and is intended only for the German public and the MPs of the country’s government coalition; indeed, upon close inspection, it turns out that banks and insurance companies have made a decent
profit.
It is not price competition or the drive for
profit
that has made Harvard, Yale, or Stanford great.
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