But in a climate of paranoia, investors are more likely to sell first and ask questions later.
Investors, meanwhile, have decided to sell first, and ask questions later.
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Frightened investors pull the sell trigger first and ask questions later.
Today two of the last remaining Wall Street giants are getting the Gulliver in Lilliput treatment as their stock prices are tied down and speared to death in a classic sell-first-ask-questions-later hellstorm in the equity markets.
Why, these people ask, should Pfizer sell at 40 times next year's earnings?
So, this weekend, head to your local bookstore and ask them whether they sell ebooks and, if you want to support them, sign up to buy ebooks from them versus buying them elsewhere.
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And instead of getting an exclusive franchise, Earthlink agreed to re-sell network capacity to other providers who ask.
If I were on a Board evaluating this as a potential buyout, I would seriously ask what Groupon has to sell and what I would be willing to pay for it.
The question I would ask, is how can any politician sell that kind of politics to a media addicted to rhetoric as action (or inaction), and action as democracy?
Why not ask those whose entire business rationale is to sell us more oil, more natural gas, more electricity?
Investor partners also may ask you for a share of the profits when you sell.
The question service providers of all stripes must ask is: Is my service good enough to sell?
And when I was over in Europe and they were bringing the Zune brand over to represent the delivery of content, the first thing people would ask is, 'Well, are you gonna sell a device?
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The best way to protect yourself is to use limit orders when placing an order to buy or sell a stock or an exchange-traded fund. (See How Your Buy and Sell Orders Get Filled for more.) Look at the bid-ask spread and set your price limit at the bid for selling a stock and at the ask for buying a stock.
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Their ideas include simplifying and standardizing insurance products, indexing premiums annually instead of requiring carriers to ask for big rate increases every few years, allowing insurers to sell high-deductible plans (where buyers could be responsible for as much as two years of LTC costs), and better educating consumers about the price of long-term care and the limited government resources available to pay for it.
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Instead, keep looking for solutions, even partial ones: get a roommate, sell the car, pare down basic expenses, investigate a short sale, ask if you can move back in with the folks.
And why not, many will ask, after the extraordinary video of the Tory co-treasurer offering to sell access to the prime minister's private dinner table and his policy unit.
Ask any agent: even in the toughest markets, there are listing that sell quickly, mostly because the one-two punch of the property and its price look to buyers like a very strong value.
Ask Motorola, which Icahn badgered into letting go of Chief Executive EdZanderEd Zander and exploring how to sell off its handset division.
You can also call health insurance companies directly to ask about their child-only coverage, because in some states, health insurance companies may not sell child-only plans through agents.
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Indeed, ask any global manufacturer and they will tell you they prefer to build cars in the markets where they sell them.
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