Unlike the valuation methods based on book value alone, it takes into account the earnings power.
The explanation must be that bank capital regulation is based on book values of capital, not market values.
However, any measure based on book value has to get over the fact that accounting measures are not carved in stone.
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They probably make more revenue on shipping charges than on book margins.
The basic lesson of all of this: stop pretending that you can control the financial health of banks with regulation based on book values of capital.
Whereas Palin the elder has made a fortune on book deals, Fox News, and expensive speaking engagements, Bristol Palin has made her first few hundred thousand working to prevent teenage pregnancy.
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The type of health club you frequent (or want to try) also can boost or lessen the intimidation factor, said Walter Meyer, a San Diego-based author who hits the gym in his home town and while on book tours.
Schmidt notes that he has been working on a book on foreign policy and the impact of information.
Brian Domitrovic will be on leave from this column for several months as he works on a book on the history of economic policy.
He taught economic history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other colleges, and worked on his book on economic growth, the subject that brought him to the notice of Kennedy, and which remains the best known of his 30 works.
Fox Business Network anchor Lou Dobbs recently accused the upcoming movie, The Secret World of Arrietty, which is based on the Mary Norton book, The Borrowers, as well as The Lorax, based on a book by Dr. Suess, as tools by the liberal media to indoctrinate children.
Now, that I have published a book on this subject means that I cannot now write a review of any other book on that same sort of subject.
After spending their careers blurring truth and fiction, many retired agents are challenged by life after the CIA. Mendez has focused his energies on painting, on his book, and on spending more time with his wife, also a retired CIA agent and former chief of disguise.
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If you still want to go to China after reading this book, you are ready to move on to the next book on the list.
To the right, a button lets you open the book (you can also accomplish this by simply clicking on the book, naturally), view more info on the title, delete it from your shelf or find similar books -- yet another spot for some e-book upselling.
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True crime author Cathy Scott, for instance, is offering a one-hour Skype session on launching a book on social media, a technique many authors, including Scott, have used to move their books up the Amazon charts.
Most writers take a breather between books, but when he finished one book he always started immediately on another book.
Publishers also used to do all kinds of nifty things for their authors, like throw them a cool book party, send them on a book tour, get their books reviewed in the press and give manuscripts loving yet eagle-eyed editing.
Drexler is currently working on a book about the impact of wealth on childrearing.
Those authors helped Armentrout find editors and designers to work on the book and a month later it was on the market.
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In the case of The Exorcist, it was based on the book, and with Emily Rose it was based on the true case of a German girl.
The "professional housewife" is also working on a second book (on home buying).
Vaughn, the associate publisher of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, an annual publication considered the authority on comic book pricing, said the Action Comic No. 1 book sold Monday is worth every penny.
Instead of focusing on the book lovers who bought the first Kindle, Amazon seems intent on creating a device that may actually appeal to a wider, less bookish set of customers.
The Exorcist is based on the book by William Peter Blatty which is itself said to be based on actual events in Maryland in 1949.
Bryan Caplan, an associate professor of economics at George Mason working on a book entitled The Case Against Education, says that the paper chase on campus is an elaborate form of signaling.
Barely nine months after China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, I sat at a U.S.-China Business Council luncheon in Beijing featuring U.K. journalist Joe Studwell speak on his book The China Dream: The Elusive Quest for the Greatest Untapped Market on Earth.
Robert and I are collaborating on a book about the next generation of online technology and he has a stake on my not doing anything stupid in public related to social technologies, so the appearance of my spamming hundreds of people on Facebook was a justifiable cause for his concern.
Wait for You went on sale in late Feb. and hit the No. 1 spot on the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller list on March 10, a first for a self-published book.
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