Ask him about returns on investment, and he confesses that he has no idea.
Returns on investment could vary from 3% on tax-exempt bonds to 8% for equity partners.
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Enhanced expensing more fully reflects the real cost of equipment than depreciation, raising after-tax returns on investment.
The report identifies a number of potential areas of development with potential for high returns on investment.
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Which solution that we are testing is producing the highest returns on investment?
Returns on investment on peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sites (a similar funding method) have been in the 10% range.
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Longer-term, however, devaluation strangles job creation because inflation slows any returns on investment.
Every quarter, shareholders judge returns on investment and the valuation of the company.
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It has been the centrally planned communist economies that have ended up being destroyed by chronically low real returns on investment.
Typically success rates are low and returns on investment far from assured.
Greenblatt's idea: Buy 20 to 30 firms that are cheap relative to earnings per share and have relatively high returns on investment.
Other actors who we valued (like Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway) are neither overpaid nor offering fantastic returns on investment right now.
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When the Olympics finally return to American soil, they should return where the odds of maximizing the returns on investment will be at their highest.
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Smaller-scale projects mean fewer headaches while providing excellent returns on investment.
Nothing else in development policy has such high returns on investment.
But paying these actresses more money will bump up the budgets of their films, which means both actresses could offer worse returns on investment for studios.
Money gets pumped into the economy either by a tax cut or tax elimination of levies on returns on investment orgeneral tax cuts or government direct payments.
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This is a passion project, and Bohemia are better positioned than many to support it, but there are some cold realities around returns on investment which will at some point kick in.
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Many managers and owners have bemoaned the poor returns on investment that the academies have produced and others have suggested they are little more than public relations exercises to placate fans' desire for home-grown heroes.
And when investors and parent corporations realize that there are much easier businesses out there with far better returns on investment, say goodbye to the for-profit healh insurance industry and hello to a government single-payer health system.
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With the exception of the recession of 08-09, when all U.S. economic sectors took a hit, U.S. manufacturing has been breaking its own record, year after year, with respect to output, value-added, profits, returns on investment, exports, and imports.
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He emphasized the personal ownership and control workers would enjoy through the accounts, the better returns on investment and consequently higher benefits, the accumulated family funds that could be left as an inheritance to children or other heirs, and the full solvency for Social Security that would be achieved without raising taxes or cutting benefits.
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Rarely when questioned would a business person describe Africa as the continent that yields a minimum of 8% Returns on Investment, has 85% cell phone penetration in some countries, develops innovative banking solutions such as MPESA in Kenya, boasts robust stock exchanges in Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi or that the origins of PayPal are in South Africa.
But Ackman is confident, despite having seen no returns on his investment thus far.
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If they are successful, China may earn returns on its investment abroad as well as at home.
And the actual returns on the investment in several projects, including a 10-mile streetcar loop, were far from clear.
At the time we sold Berkshire we felt the buyers would probably end up earning reasonable returns on their investment.
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In short, the Rangers truly outperformed expectations in a historic way in 2010, and received significant returns on their investment in payroll.
Corporate customers will demand sure-bet returns on their investment, and vendors will have to supply ever more service and power per dollar.
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