That would be a bad day indeed, but it's nothing next to this reader's favorite apocalypse.
So long-bond buyers in today's market run the risk of purchasing something that is extremely likely to lose value while gaining nothing or next to nothing in yield pick-up.
His letter also defends the government against claims by Hytner that it had done "next to nothing" to encourage philanthropy.
You see, unless you live in one of 9 states, the candidates have done next to nothing to win you over.
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Yet the health system has done next to nothing to recognize this new, more intense level of care by family members.
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The average e-tailer has done next to nothing to optimize for mobile.
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They should make these phones available for next to nothing to their vast partner channel too, encouraging them to play and develop new applications.
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Meanwhile, Team Kerry did next to nothing to make Cheney, who was already a highly unpopular and divisive figure by that point, a liability for the Republican ticket.
It may be worsening the problem by enabling too many competitively weak companies to avoid restructuring and to continue to operate even as they deliver next to nothing to shareholder.
Mr Hombach reckons the Social Democratic Party did next to nothing to modernise during its 16 years of opposition and that it has a lot to learn now from Britain, especially on cutting taxes, shaking up the labour market and revamping social security to help create jobs.
Interest on margin credit is next to nothing, an easy cross to bear.
While rates near zero give the firm the ability to borrow at next to nothing, it also has to lend with only tiny profits baked in.
Companies struggle to make money out of the unmetered services because, although surfers pay next to nothing, ISPs currently have to pay network provider British Telecom the full telephone bill.
There is certainly a tremendous amount of cash on the sidelines earning next to nothing in savings accounts and bond funds to fuel a further rally.
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Most were so eager to shed their all-white image that, knowing next to nothing about him, they invited him to speak to their members and put him on the programs of their conferences.
But, hey, that means you should be able to pick up remaining inventory for next to nothing on eBay and from liquidators as stores race to clear out stock.
But this tough and canny product of the East End has, by hitting up family and friends, cadging favors from the trade and putting pals to work for next to nothing, fought his way through the fashion thicket to a rich present and probably richer future as a couture brand name.
But for your Uncle Al living in Boca, if he is paying 20% over the value of Treasury bonds at par today to get interest payments of just 1.6%, he is going to get next to nothing in real income after inflation, and he is going to watch the value of his bond plummet once interest rates start rising again, forecast to occur by 2014.
While The New York Times has said next to nothing about its plans for pricing or how many articles users will be able to access before being asked to subscribe, Nisenholtz did give one hint.
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And how long will Asian countries continue to spend money building up foreign-exchange reserves that earn next to nothing and carry the risk of currency losses, rather than use the money to invest in their own region, which seems set to grow an awful lot in coming years.
With cash and money-market funds yielding investors next to nothing, and Treasury yields near historic lows, more investors are deciding stocks are the best place to put their money, even with a U.S. economy that has struggled to build momentum and relatively weak earnings news.
Short rates in euro land are poised to drop close to our next-to-nothing level.
In the meantime, efforts by the pension to deny the obvious waste of millions in secret fees paid to intermediaries for doing next-to-nothing, as well as to retaliate against whistleblowers and credible critics, only makes the fund seem embarassing ignorant of the reality of federal regulation of the money management industry.
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One moment nothing seems to matter more, the next nothing matters less.
Once a drug is in production, churning out one more little pill costs next to nothing.
After Appel had paid expenses and taken his considerable cut, the pay was next to nothing.
Security analysts know next to nothing about the group, and some discount its claim.
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Current yields of 2.1% mean real rates are next to nothing after accounting for inflation.
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