Attractive capital gains or dividend tax rates save cash today but there is always a bill to be paid when we want our investment money back.
The trend has accelerated as startups can be formed more quickly and with less cash today, thanks to the Internet, mobile communications and cloud computing that make it possible to flip the switch on and get going.
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By default, bitcoin may not offer anonymity and untraceability like our paper cash today, but it is better described as user-defined anonymity because the decision to reveal identity and usage patterns resides solely with the bitcoin user.
It is this feature alone that allows users to maintain the same financial privacy as physical cash today and it is this feature that will also lead to liberating advancements such as a thriving and interconnected System D, unhampered and undiluted freedom of speech, and superior asset management that can truly be said to be off-the-grid.
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And cash, today's currency of choice, is a remarkably cheap commodity thanks to low interest rates and abundant liquidity.
It rarely makes sense to hold cash at today's negligible interest rates, when you have debt at rates that are more than 2% or 3% of what the cash is earning.
There's a lot of cash in Vietnam today, and more coming in foreign capital remittances from Vietnamese living and working overseas.
Territorial swaps for cash seem unthinkable today.
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Sam Chisholm and David Chance, the men who turned Sky from a cash drain that nearly sank News Corp into today's cash cow, were less keen to welcome the digital dawn than their ultimate boss.
But today, cash-strapped oil producers are more likely to spend their windfall.
Most small businesses have a timing mismatch between receivables and payables--and you can't pay for things today with cash you expect to receive tomorrow.
Electronic digital cash, for use on or off the Internet, may eventually provide some anonymity but, like today's physical cash, it will probably be used only for smaller purchases.
And it has indulged in false economies that shave the cash requirements of the war today by, for example, hesitating to purchase mine-resistant vehicles only to store up much bigger burdens for the future, such as the cost of caring for veterans injured by roadside bombs.
To cash in where the growth is today, and for the foreseeable future.
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Chinese companies today have much more cash than when I first came to China, and are now able to hire the best people in the world and to acquire overseas companies as a way to gain access to needed technology.
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So gung-ho is Viacom that CEO Philippe Dauman revealed today that its enormous free cash flow will support both accelerated share buybacks and an increased cash dividend.
Consequently, as we look at companies today with a lot of cash on their balance sheets, but a lot of uncertainty in the macro environment, technology is actually a very interesting place for companies to make capital investments today, because technology investments tend to be productivity enhancing and not capacity enhancing.
Today the Chinese are offering the cash-strapped Pakistani government a different kind of help--investment in its private sector.
But today, when banks are hoarding cash in case they need it and are unwilling to lend to each other for anything longer than a day at a time, loans lasting three months, for instance, are being replaced with overnight ones.
Today its armed forces are short of cash, weapons, spares, maintenance, even fuel and widely disliked.
Ezra Klein posted this chart today showing the steady accumulation of corporate cash and reserves over the past 15 years.
At that time, revenue and cash earnings were both one-quarter what it is today.
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