"Weekly bin collections are more expensive to run and lead to less waste being recycled, which is bad news for cash-strapped councils and families and bad news for the environment, " said its waste campaigner, Julian Kirby.
The bad news for cash-strapped shoppers is that prices for late-model used cars, which had begun to decline after reaching historic highs the last two years, are on the upswing again.
This infers a bad outcome for owners of cash and debt, a less bad outcome for owners of stocks, and a reasonable outcome for owners of real assets like property and commodities.
Institutions, they think, will take a longer-term view, and so not upset their trading strategies by pulling out their cash in bad times.
In such a backtest, a manager knows exactly when stocks and bonds did badly and when they did well and can design a portfolio that would have been 100% in cash during bad markets and 100% in other assets when they shone.
Many banks have been running on fumes, working with less money because of their bad bets on mortgage-related investments and hoarding the cash they have against more bad news in the future.
Carrying large quantities of cash is as bad as not carrying any.
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Posing as money launderers, DEA agents picked up bags of cash from the bad guys at hotels and parking lots and sent the funds into the U.S. financial system after getting wire transfer instructions from money brokers.
Not bad pay for sitting on cash.
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By contrast, if the key risk you worry about is the post-inflation value of your savings falling by 50% over the next decade or two, or if you fear being unable to live on the meagre returns from even the best savings policies, then cash looks a bad choice and stock markets a better one.
Credit-card donations offer some benefits to charities, reducing administrative costs, smoothing cash flows and eliminating bad checks.
D. (competing with the United Parcel Service) and let companies better manage their cash flow and reduce bad receivables.
Over short periods, an allocation to cash is not a bad thing, especially if it accounts for a small portion of your portfolio.
Jean Mazaurelle, the head of the World Bank in Mauritania and the man in charge of overseeing the debt-relief programme, blames bad management rather than lack of cash for many of the country's problems.
One client, who is divorcing a rich doctor, says she signed on with BBL only after maxing out her credit cards and selling jewelry to pay the bills, but she's since referred the firm to seven prospective divorcees friends who don't have the cash to end their bad marriages.
Cash creates problems because holding excessive cash is often just as bad as holding excessive debt.
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Second, the banks, hugely unprofitable and burdened with bad loans, no longer have the cash to come to companies' aid.
Now there will have to be cold hard cash changing hands to accompany that bad smell.
While cash can't make a bad stock good, it can make a good stock better.
Some companies grow cash whether the economy is good bad or indifferent.
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Cash in 2013 is not a bad place to be, given the unresolved tax and budget issues and renewed volatility in the market.
Much of the gas being produced, when you add in all the expenses including building gathering systems, purification plants, and accounting for the bad wells, lose money on a pure cash flow basis.
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Though interest rates are next to nothing, consumers are paying down their debt or storing cash against the fear of another bad slowdown and are not buying enough consumer goods to force companies to invest more capital, to expand their operations and hire more people.
If you're certain you won't rack up a heavy balance, the Bank of America Cash Rewards Visa Signature isn't bad deal.
But the cash you have given away in the good years is much harder to get back from a cash-constrained public when times turn bad.
The usual currency of the venture capitalist is equity, not bank loans, not least because Internet start-ups are notoriously bad at making money and so have little free cash to service debt.
Other factors relate to discontinued operations (booking a one-time gain from selling a business is bad), corporate governance (companies get black marks for having poison pills), inventory (if it piles up faster than sales, then business may be weakening) and free cash flow (a declining number is bad).
He hoarded cash in good times, spent it in bad times and stayed frugal.
When a company runs out of ways to prop up its revenue, net income or cash flow, it will have a very bad quarter.
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