Showing off is a good way to inflate either an ego or the value of a collection.
The insight behind these charts is that the value of an individual piece of data goes down with time and the value of a collection of data goes up with time.
Six of the pieces were owned by Richard Neumann, an Austrian Jew who sold off his collection at a fraction of its value in order to leave France.
Often, you can buy just 10 to 12 types of investments, ranging from cash-like stable value funds to bonds and a collection stock funds.
He cites the example of one of the bank notes in his collection, a 1896 US note with a face value of two silver dollars.
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Anyone who buys solely to make money is a fool, but if the value of your collection goes down over time, you haven't bought with much refinement or finesse.
Now that the film is a bona fide blockbuster, the value of his entire collection has already gone up.
The question of how to put an economic value on increased longevity is addressed in a collection of articles by leading economists published in May.
In a report, it said supporting more efficient tax collection represented "excellent value" for UK taxpayers.
It is difficult to overstate the value of being able to bring a high-performance collection system like the SR-71 rapidly to bear virtually anywhere in the world, without regard to daylight or weather conditions.
Markit, for example, gathers information from a large collection of financial services companies to provide an independent view on the value of credit default swaps.
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Imagine that some wealthy person had accumulated a very large iTunes collection: at their death would the IRS want to value it as something that should pay inheritance tax?
The amount individual buyers actually forked over for their collection of 30-second spots varies, depending on advertisers' perceptions about a show's value to their clout with the respective network.
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