Even a temporary advantage, lasting a week or perhaps a whole season, is worth pursuing.
Our Treasury mandarins forget that the inflation we suffer at home will cost us more than whatever temporary advantage we gain on our trade accounts from a devalued dollar.
Today, there is a growing recognition that in the 21st Century the only comparative advantage is temporary.
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If the yuan was pegged too low in 1995, the advantage was only temporary as importers and exporters adjusted to their own changing costs.
The funding boost for Advantage is another temporary concession to the public mood, much like the hundreds of waivers HHS has issued that exempt businesses from certain mandates so they don't dump coverage.
So I want to urge all businesses with capital needs to take advantage of this temporary expensing provision, because we expect it to lower the average cost of investment by more than 75 percent for companies like Thompson Creek.
This has the advantage that, because it is temporary, it would encourage people to buy now, not later, and it would not damage America's long-term budget position.
Then we take advantage of this behavior, this often temporary irrational behavior, by buying company stock before other investors adjust their prior expectations to reflect those new fundamentals.
Of course, just a few years later the whole sector was made obsolete by Netflix, and any advantage Blockbuster would have gained would have only been temporary.
My most recent stint in the hospital, an unplanned and unexpected illness which resulted in temporary kidney damage, could have resulted in death if not for my Medicare and Medicare Advantage Plan.
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