But he noted that Berkshire will still have room to make more acquisitions because its businesses continually replenish its cash supply.
You must also understand the impact of supply chain changes on total cost or cash flow and optimize supply chain effectiveness for better corporate results.
For the first five years, while the trees get going, the farmers are being compensated with cash and a supply of grain.
The root issue I have with gold is that its price is based not on the present value of future cash flows but supply and demand.
Andrew Crockett, a former head of the Bank for International Settlements, thinks central banks should broaden the range of collateral they accept when they supply cash to commercial banks.
This uncertainty is contributing to ongoing conservative cash management in some supply chains.
As people rushed to turn bank deposits into cash, the money supply collapsed.
That could force the Kurds to eke another 14 billion dinars-worth of economic activity each year out of the same physical supply of cash.
For what seems to be the first time since the days following Sept. 11, 2001, the European Central Bank has felt compelled to supply extra cash to the Continental banking system to calm market fears.
If you happen to own your primary residence, a fat portfolio of stocks and bonds, a year's supply of cash and maybe a yacht and a dancing horse, then why not collect a few bargain bungalows too?
Until there is more clarity regarding the cliff, I favor conservative holdings like the SPDR DJIA ETF ( DIA) and the Utilities Sector, via ETFs like the Select SPDR Utilities (XLU), while holding an ample supply of cash ready to pounce on more aggressive opportunities.
Because Drug cartels will always have an endless supply of ready cash for wages, bribery and equipment, no amount of tax money, police powers, weaponry, wishful thinking or pseudo-science will make our streets safe again.
Crude oil's recent slide is a result of ample supplies and recent speculation that the Federal Reserve may soon allow interest rates to rise, which would reduce the supply of easy cash investors have been using to buy commodities like oil.
Consumers were expected to take advantage of the increased supply and spend the cash, thus reviving the economy.
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Companies like Walmart and Cisco have built global supply chains, linking cash registers at retail outlets with factories around the world.
And given a lot of extra cash and credit from the feds, supply tends to overshoot, often spectacularly.
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The M1 is a very liquid measure of the money supply, as it contains cash and assets that can quickly be converted to currency.
The narrowest measure of the money supply - in effect, cash on bank balance sheets - has risen by 58% since September, as you'd expect when the Bank is handing their customers all that freshly created money in exchange for the purchased gilts.
Fewer homes were also built using cash from the Scottish government's affordable housing supply programme, which helps provide properties for low-cost rent or ownership, with 6, 882 completed in 2011-12.
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Whether or not people are forgiving, they will have noticed that Italy's economy and social fabric have continued to fray, yet the cash to mend it is in ever-shorter supply.
The graduate of the Harvard Business School reckons she can make a reasonable annual return of between 6% and 11%, when you factor in the rising demand for the short supply of farmland together with the annual cash flow of the farms.
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De La Rue will provide forecasts of the demand for cash but it is up to customers to control the supply of their currency.
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Traders would love to turn the risks faced by suppliers, transmitters and retailers of electricity into financial products, so that they could hedge the hazards of weather, fuel supply and wind, and settle up in cash rather than in actual electricity.
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Eric and Jessica were far from ready to supply such a big order - mainly because of cash flow problems.
Cash for Clunkers is saving jobs up and down the auto supply chain: from dealers to assembly workers and parts markers.
He warns that some parent companies saddle their spinoffs with debt in order to pay cash dividends, as Sears did when it spun off Orchard Supply Hardware early in 2012.
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For the last several years, he has led engagements focused on identifying challenges and opportunities across the agricultural market and supply chain in sub-Saharan Africa, including cash crops (for export), staples, and horticulture.
Even in primitive northwestern Europe, where Rome stationed its army at frontier posts like Cologne, Mainz and Vienna, cash salaries and pension payments, plus the use of private businesses to supply food, arms and other necessities, ensured a city-centered, money-based market economy.
Buyers with cash on hand can head off such problems by investing their stash in their supply chain.
Astute buyers with strong cash positions can help themselves and their suppliers by becoming the bank for their supply chain.
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