Even discounting for this being another way to talk about themselves, this wears off soon.
Including dividends and discounting for inflation, the return over the past two centuries has averaged 7% a year.
With that kind of volume increase, I would expect some pretty hefty discounting for iPhone and iPad displays.
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Consumer loans rose 9.1% yoy in April after discounting for inflation.
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Discounting for inflation, retail sales slowed to 10.8% growth from 13.8%.
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"Institutions that are already discounting for most students have a reasonable opportunity to cut their sticker prices without actually diminishing their net revenues, " said Sandy Baum, a senior fellow at George Washington University School of Education.
The traditional holiday shopping season may still be seven weeks away, but discounting season for major retailers is already underway--and with a vengeance.
Its stock market may have sucked in too much hot money and heated up to discounting growth for the next three years, a dangerous situation.
The safest route for valuation discounting is to have specialized split interest trusts and other discounting methods crafted specifically for artwork, so that the valuation issue is old and cold by the time the estate tax return is filed.
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That is why the government-bond yield is the appropriate measure for discounting public liabilities, as Messrs Rauh and Novy-Marx assert.
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After all, Amazon had been deeply discounting physical books for years, threatening brick-and-mortar shops of all sizes with its deep pockets.
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It floated only a small portion of its stock, making it more vulnerable to price volatility, but questions linger about Groupon's competitiveness in the crowded market for discounting online.
The Internet is bearish for retailing because it is at its core a price-discounting medium, particularly for toys, books and computers, which are easy-to-sell commodities.
Retailers need to transcend the discounting madness and reach for higher ground or be part of the downward spiral.
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The supermarkets have been quick to reject suggestions that their aggressive expansion and price discounting are to blame for some of our boarded-up market towns.
ACOs, seemingly wary of stirring a similar backlash, allow Medicare patients to obtain care anywhere they choose, but there is no preferential pricing, discounting or other way for ACOs to steer patients to the most effective providers.
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Even without his new powers, Mr Bridgeman has made some headway against high prices: on August 6th, the eve of the football season, football clubs promised him that they would not prevent the discounting of replica shirts, for which fans have been paying heavily for several years.
For analysts like Rauh, the main culprit is the governmental accounting standards board (GASB), whose discounting metrics are a point of contention for economists.
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And I have never believed that simple discounting can be an adequate tool for potentially catastrophic outcomes 50 or more years ahead.
The scheme called for an end to discounting of alcohol by off licences and supermarkets, laws on alcohol labelling and reducing the drink-drive limit.
In the fourth quarter of 2001 consumer spending grew at an estimated annual rate of more than 4%, partly thanks to discounting and zero-rate financing for car purchases.
Knowing who is discounting and how could be valuable information for those sorts of economic analysts.
We currently build discounting models to create a fair market value for them, but there is no standard.
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One of the biggest problems in personal finance is a phenomenon that behavioral economists call hyperbolic temporal discounting, which is basically a fancy term for our tendency to sacrifice the future to live for today.
This raised the stakes in price discounting, a practice that had already been spreading for five years.
In a report for the Southern Poverty Law Center called Discounting Hate, Potok concluded that hate crime statistics are plagued with inaccuracy.
While I'm a big fan of discounting and price competition, I think the responsibility for pricing decisions should rest with authors and publishers.
That marked an increase of about 5% from 2011, but the value of the entire book market shrank because of heavy discounting of digital titles - with many bestsellers retailing for less than a pound.
Common sense would dictate this kind of increased volume of sq inches purchased from their display supply chain should yield some substantial discounting on the per unit cost of the display for an iPhone and an iPad!
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