Well, maybe not real economic value for you or me, but obviously very real economic value for Mr. Summers.
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And, for the most part, the value of real estate does not drop in value over the years.
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According to Phil Mirvis a global expert on CSR companies still do not fully understand the real value from CSR.
Whilst this is definitely a step in the right direction, it still does not allow pricing according to the real value of the service being provided.
"Any employee who is not creating value does not have a real job in the MBM sense of the word, " Koch writes, although a worker on the assembly line might consider his weekly paycheck real enough.
And the value of real estate as a component of the value of a business does not drop as it ages.
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It is invariably contrived, never creates any real value, and is simply not necessary.
That's great for many Americans who feel like they can live comfortably in retirement on their other nest egg assets, not to mention the accumulated value of any real estate they've collected over the years.
The real value of renewable energy lies not in low costs (though lower costs are certainly a laudable development), but in its environmental benefits the cleaner air, water, and land that we all enjoy, and the hope of a future without catastrophic climate change.
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The payoff, the real business value, will come from not only making the analog digital, but from marrying the two worlds.
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If those forecasts are right, inflation in the UK will be lower in the next few years than it has been since 2009, and the real value of benefits will fall by not much more than 1% a year, between now and 2015, as a result of this policy.
The development of real estate into higher-value uses through into and through the real estate boom and other items has not generated a positive return.
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That makes sense: Accounting rules require REITs to subtract depreciation in arriving at net income, but real estate tends to appreciate in value, not depreciate.
By this logic, the real economic value in a Princeton degree is not the vaunted Princeton education, but in signaling potential employers that you are smart enough to get into Princeton.
In the first three months of this year, Japan's real global exports were 10% lower than during the same period a year earlier, according to Richard Katz of the Oriental Economist Report. (A "real export" measures units shipped, not the yen value.) Nominal exports, measured in yen instead of number of widgets, have not taken such a severe beating.
There is a GPS chipset onboard, but presently it has very limited value because drivers have not been written for any real navigation capabilities.
The rise of such a currency should be a major boost to global economic growth and prosperity, empowering the world economy to trade in currency not subject to inflation, devaluations, and variation in real market value.
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It also notes that the fines have not risen since 2000, and have therefore diminished in value in real terms.
They are simply too slow and do not allow sellers to provide potential buyers real-time pre-sale value (information).
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The real value of the company and the differentiating factor was not in the market it was going after--which became plagued with issues--but the underlying technology for making the component products.
Residential real estate and 401k accounts that have fallen 50% in value will not recover quickly.
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"The traditional split between left and right has historic and symbolic value, " he said, "but does not highlight the real alliance that Italy needs - one that focuses on Europe, and on reforms".
The moral claim real money places on society on behalf of its bearer comes not from the intrinsic value of the token but from the fact that the bearer had previously produced some good or service deemed valuable by others.
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Not only are cash rewards more valuable when it comes time to redeem them, they also have a real value.
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Although the avalanche is not real, the camaraderie and shared experience it inspired is genuine, Carter said, which is the true value of the exercise.
Real estate offered a golden opportunity, according to the European Renaissance Fund, not because it would rise in value any time soon, but rather because "a lot of existing portfolios will be offloaded by distressed investors".
In a BPO a real estate broker, not an appraiser, uses their familiarity with the local market to estimate a property's value.
The effect of low-skilled immigration on wages, along with the declining value, in real terms, of the minimum wage, have made the decision of young people not to enter the workforce a no-brainer.
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