Of course the opposite of “making money” is “losing money.”
According to a dictionary, losing is : (i) failing to win or (ii) to suffer deprivation of.
One loses money when, as in the case of General Motors, if you add up all the costs of producing your product and add up all […]
Every one of us knows how painful it is to spend less, If you made and spent X dollars last week and make X minus 100 dollars this week, it is very painful to cut back on the things you spend money on. It may even be as painful as heron withdrawal.
No surprise […]
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If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose–because it contains all the others–the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity–to be seized, […]
Metaphor is applying the attributes of one thing directly to a different thing. This differs from simile. In smile, one contends that the attributes of one thing are similar in significant ways to the attributes of another thing. A simile might read: “a good book is like a meal to an avid reader.” […]
Today I listened to an audio tape by a couple very famous academic lecturers about Renascence literature. I got the tape from our local library. To purchase it would have been quite expensive. The lecturers taught at Brown and Princeton and Yale and etc. They were the established authorities at […]
Globalism makes governments compete with each other. In the late 20th Century the United States inflated its currency and achieved much of its objective in so doing. The government confiscated wealth, value was transferred from savers to debtors, overextended debtors (such as the government itself) were relieved of their obligations to repay value […]
Once you are an investor, it is hard to spend money for foolish things.
Look at it this way. Whatever my income and savings it gives me a certain capital account. It gives me a pool of money that I can do with what I wish. I could buy stones for my wife […]
Here is what you have to do.
First, get out of debt. I know, the credit cards make buying easy. If you want to be where I am, cut the cards and pay off the credit card debt. It is mucho expensive. If you run $10K credit card debt forever, you only […]
No one believes in Capitalism in the USA. They believe in Capitalism in the People’s Republic, and in Eastern Europe, and in Hong Kong and Singapore. However, they believe in a seriously modified capitalism in those places. They believe in taking the growth and the creation of value, yet thy balk at […]
Globalization is the most powerful force for liberalization and the expansion of freedom ever to be seen on the face of the Earth.
Why did the USSR fail? Ten thousand reasons, but number one was a global marketplace. The old USSR could survive indefinitely in a fragmented world. In a global world, their shortcomings […]