There is no special tax rebate for these cars: we buy them because we want to.
Stocks have a long shelf life, too, and we buy them in order to use them a long time in the future.
We buy from them, but they do not buy from us.
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"When stocks get mispriced periodically we will buy them if they are in the right relation to intrinsic value, " he said.
Considering our foreign trading partners, they can't buy from us unless we buy from them, so won't a subsidy that will mostly benefit U.S. carmakers lead to reduced foreign demand for other American goods?
So what we did for what I call the magic formula in the book is, we rank all companies based on their return on capital and we also rank all companies based on how cheaply we can buy them relative to their earnings.
It raises prices of the goods and services we buy or keeps them from falling as much as would otherwise be the case.
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And now, just as we buy our chairs at Knoll or Steelcase instead of building them, we can buy capacity in the cloud instead of building our own data centers.
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By American standards, we could buy two of them, and have enough left over for a Prius, or a trip around the world.
"He said, 'Pop, we speak English, give me the money and we can buy things and sell them here, ' " his father recalled.
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However, Buffett added, "We'd want to buy them cheaper than the same kind of companies in the U.S." He finds the price-to-earnings ratios of Japanese companies still too high even though the Nikkei average has dropped to 8, 000 from 40, 000.
Instead, most of them are too busy telling us what we want to hear so we'll like them better and buy whatever they're selling at the moment.
Beyond just playing games via streaming, it looks like we'll be able to buy them directly on Steam, through Shield.
So companies are going to keep finding ways to mine data to figure out what we need, what we like, what we might like, and how much of a discount they need to offer on Sour Patch Kids to get us to buy them every time we shop.
They chose to start with T-Shirts because the overall purchase rate for T-shirts is so high. (We, Americans, especially buy a ton of them).
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We then go off and buy the books to make them available for the students.
We need to think about what offers we can make to readers to encourage them to buy legitimate copies of our books, rather than download them for free.
Then we ask how many of them are in the market to buy any car in the next year or two.
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What products and services can we offer -- and how should we price them -- so that people will want to buy them?
After all, when people cannot afford food, we do not give them a card that allows them to buy food only at grocery stores willing to sell to them at deeply discounted prices.
Politicians have made us believe that buying new things is good - that we shouldn't be miserly and hang on to our old possessions, our old appliances and our old clothes, but that we should toss them out the second they get worn and buy new ones - to keep the economy going.
For buy to let investors (or private landlords as we might call them) are likely to be the people with the finances to be able to make a substantial deposit.
Our capitalist system is based on the idea of an overall return on our assets: We buy things, then reconfigure, invent, invest, and redeploy them in ways that are more positive for the world.
If he chooses to buy an old painting or a new motorcycle, we presume he wants them.
This is the case when we buy a nephew a package of socks because his mother says he needs them.
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We should get tougher on people who buy guns only to turn around and sell them to criminals.
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Turns out, when faced with too many options, we are unable to evaluate them all, and end up deciding not to buy at all.
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