And the opportunity cost for not taking risk is itself a form of taking a risk.
Low interest rates reduce the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets such as gold.
What makes opportunity cost more insidious is its impact may not be obvious for some time.
Perhaps some bankers will calculate the monthly opportunity cost of using existing disparate identifiers and manual reconciliation.
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Giving the brand to an American studio feels like an opportunity cost rather than an artistic gain.
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Diageo will pretend to be patient, but waiting for a transformational acquisition has a high opportunity cost.
Real rates are now negative in developed countries, so the opportunity cost of holding gold has disappeared.
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It would be bad enough if the opportunity cost was a steady one to two percent per year.
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Road safety, then, does have an opportunity cost, and an economist will want to know what it is.
Also, Treasury yields were creeping up, which raises the opportunity cost of holding gold since gold has no yield.
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We see no risk in owning shares here except the opportunity cost as investors continue to gravitate towards growth.
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The opportunity cost for an hour of employee time is several hundred dollars.
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It is mostly bad for people in terms of opportunity cost and does more harm than good on average.
The opportunity cost of being an accomplished child is that it takes away time from making friends and nurturing relationships.
Yields on safe, dollar assets are low and the opportunity cost is high, given better returns at home or elsewhere.
With a high opportunity cost to building reputation, both the biased and unbiased are less likely to play against type.
In normal times the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding gold, instead of interest-bearing bank deposits or government bonds, is high.
But, typically, many investors tend default to focusing most on volatility and less (or not at all) on opportunity cost.
Any subsidy carries an opportunity cost: using the money in some other way would have had an impact on jobs too.
Eight factors go into its cost of ownership calculations: depreciation, financing, fees and taxes, fuel, insurance, maintenance, repairs and opportunity cost.
This sort of lost opportunity cost to taxes lost income potential is one of the most pernicious and common ways that wealth is squandered.
None is a true bottom-line margin that relates profits to sales after deducting all costs, including the opportunity cost of equity capital.
Both the civilian and military leadership in the United States begrudgingly recognize the opportunity cost phenomenon that affects democratic societies at war.
But the opportunity cost, in lost wages, of the 12-month Indian program is materially less than that of a two-year U.S. program.
With low interest rates, there is no opportunity cost to hold gold.
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The trip swallows a fifth of his earnings, in the form of fares and the opportunity cost of missing a day's work.
In a world of negative yields, owning gold has no opportunity cost.
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It keeps some out of the market entirely, creating an opportunity cost.
Then there s the opportunity cost of all that preemptive sleuthing.
That means we need to get the best return possible for every investment we make in terms of time, money and opportunity cost.
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