"Given the high costs of a home transaction--title, escrow and points, plus the rent you pay in the interim--you may break even or lose money while waiting on the sidelines, " warns Robert Bubnovich , a financial planner in Irvine, Calif.
The fundamental concept of limited liability--you can't lose more money than the amount you invested in an entity--is being eroded.
So the question now is when they will rise causing you to lose money as the value of your bonds declines.
The thing to keep in mind is, the more rewards you give away, the more money and time you lose distributing them.
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If you are in it for the love of the game and you lose money, you also lose in Tax Court.
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So you can actually watch your savings lose money in real terms if you put your money in the bank.
We're obviously more civilized today--the most you can lose is your reputation, your money and the time spent in the pokey.
If you bring the money home, you could lose 40% of it to the tax collector.
If you are the head of accounts receivable, and your firm get bought by another company which is bigger than yours and has a different way of collecting the money owed, and you lose your job as a result of the merger, you are unsettled for a while, but you can understand why it occurred.
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You lose money, and then you have to wait until the money gets back up to where you were.
You get to play with the numbers to see how much the small savers should lose to protect dodgy Russian money, or, if you prefer, how much the biznizmen get squeezed to leave the citizenry alone.
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Financial planners generally discourage such borrowing, in part because you lose out on any appreciation that the money might earn.
Still, the harsh investing reality of forex trading lives on: You need to be on the right side of the trade to make money, and you can lose your shirt if you are not careful.
Of course, we talked previously, you might lose money in terms of purchasing power, in terms of what you can actually buy with that money at the end of the day.
It helps to hold on to what you have and not lose any money along the way.
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What if you follow through on the business idea and lose money?
True, oil futures and options have been around since the 1980s, but most people will find those difficult to trade in: You would need to roll the contracts regularly, and that process is complex and can sometimes lose you money.
If inflation rises, the low yield could cause you to lose money on an inflation-adjusted basis.
By treating women as second class citizens in the tech space you are going to lose money that you could have had.
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But if you are arguing about whether teams will lose money in the future (as in the NFL), opening up the books cannot solve the problem.
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However, you would lose the benefit of active portfolio management from some top money managers.
If you lose money, you are doing something bad to the Earth's thermodynamics.
The last thing you need in retirement is to lose money that is supposed to be safe.
Put your spare capital in a money market fund and you lose 3% per annum adjusted for the real rate of inflation.
And I can tell you, I am NOT a customer that they want to lose with the amount of money that I spend on this stuff, the vast majority of it being new.
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An investment in oil futures and perhaps gold would provide a hedge, but if the governmental transitions turn out to be peaceful, you lose both dollars invested in the hedge and the opportunity cost of not investing your money elsewhere.
Then you would lose the Bank's benefits for middle-income countries and also have less money for the poorest.
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