I'm not buying the theory that the acquisition of Motorola puts Nokia and Research In Motion into play.
"An insurer could contend that a subscription to 'Hang Gliding Monthly' is predictive of highly dangerous behavior, but I'm not buying that theory: The consumer may be getting the magazine for the pictures, " says Thomas Considine, New Jersey's commissioner of banking and insurance.
Folks buying everything from cellphones to corporate computer systems are changing their buying habits--in theory, at least.
In theory, that makes buying high yield this way as safe as it gets.
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In theory this policy of buying and cancelling some of the debt would reduce Greece's indebtedness, because the market price of its bonds is a fraction of the amount originally borrowed: if the EFSF paid 50m euros for Greek bonds with a face value of 100m euros, and agreed that Greece should have an obligation to replay only the 50m euros, that would reduce Greece's indebtedness by 50m euros.
Monti killed that deal on a theory called conglomeratization: By buying a maker of machinery that produces rival plastic bottles, Tetra Laval could in a few years leverage its lead position in cartons to also control plastic alternatives (glass bottles and tin cans are the packaging products still out of Tetra Laval's reach).
In theory, insider trading involves the buying or selling of securities based on material corporate information still unknown to the public.
Keep in mind that a little inflation is good for the economy since, in theory, it helps keep consumers buying, while deflation tends to have them put off buying, waiting for lower prices in the future.
But the prevailing theory begins with a scam artist buying an iPad, replacing it with something of similar size and weight and then repackaging the box so it looks ready for the sales floor once again.
As a matter of financial theory, there is nothing magical about buying in shares--nothing that can't be accomplished with plain old cash dividends.
Mr Vedral gives a good description of how Shannon's information theory can be applied to winning at blackjack or in buying shares (Shannon and his friends made fortunes in Las Vegas as well as on the stockmarket).
The field of decision theory tries to explain these examples of people making seemingly illogical buying decisions.
Traditional state-to-state deterrence theory suggests that such a buildup would cost a lot economically while buying nothing of strategic value.
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