The technologies of chips and fiber are racing toward infinite capabilities at zero cost.
With information, the big change of course is that the stuff can be copied at near-zero cost.
These twin forces rise at exponential rates toward infinite capability and zero cost.
"We allow private actors--your company, me, my family--to put pollution into the atmosphere in unlimited amounts at zero cost, " he said.
It will continue its merry dash toward infinite powers at zero cost.
The web, with its near-zero cost of information transfer, promised such magic to any business that got its nose out in front of its competitors.
Mr Varian argues that this overcomes the free-rider problem, a particular pain for makers of online content because it can often be reproduced at zero cost.
In order to end up with a near-zero cost for your options, the prices of the put and the call will have to be roughly the same.
She regards this as a "zero cost opportunity to give all families access to support and information, and for professionals to promote the importance of secure early relationships".
Stocks surged again on Tuesday and with a near-zero cost of borrowing, the dollar remains a favored tool in the carry trade, which naturally weighs on its worth.
No joke--computation is racing toward infinite power at zero cost.
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Scientists, and now economists, are telling us that we are long past due for a more honest accounting of the true costs of carbon dioxide, which is being emitted into the atmosphere largely at zero cost.
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In an influential 1993 paper Narasimhan Jegadeesh, now a professor at Emory University, showed that a so-called zero cost strategy of buying stocks with the best six-month performance and shorting stocks with the worst six-month performance returned 12% a year.
Citigroup, and the domestic banks, will also be able to raise funds at practically zero cost indeed, their consumer-finance ventures will give them a lucrative place to park their yen deposits (given Japan's dismal investment environment, they have few attractive alternatives).
In this strategy, called a zero-cost collar, your costs are limited to your transaction costs alone, since your proceeds from selling the calls will zero out the cost of the puts.
In those cases you gain the advantage of highly skilled technical and operational expertise at zero net cost.
The information economy is characterized by low to zero marginal cost of information once the fixed cost has been incurred.
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It means that the U.S. can continue to finance its operations by borrowing almost zero-cost money today and likely for the foreseeable future (where do you think capital will flight to if the Euro breaks up?).
The cost to you is usually zero and the transaction cost can be less than 25 cents.
Vincentric looks at the cost of zero-deductible, bumper-to-bumper extended-warranty claims to calculate the average cost owners can expect to pay for repairs.
The economics of offering TV channels are not the same as long distance (which has a marginal cost of zero more or less) and so there are clouds on the horizon.
Whenever any of my Anytown subscribers want to transfer files amongst themselves, the operating cost to me approaches zero because (aside from the capital costs of building the network), the cost of transfering those files is basically the electricity it takes to pulse lasers over the fiber and keep the fans on the routers humming.
If you donate time to a worthy cause, there's yet another rule-your "cost" is zero.
To make modern electronics like the Sharp touch screens for Apple the actual parts cost is near zero.
"As you add scale, your incremental cost goes to zero, " says Robert Greifeld, 51, a former computer salesman who took over at Nasdaq in 2003 as it was being spun out of the old National Association of Securities Dealers, now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
The result being zero tax revenue but a large cost to the state in attempting to collect that nothing.
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When in three years time, 50 million American cars have this feature (and another 50-100 million overseas), the marginal additional cost will probably be zero.
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