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With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.
I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.
We tend to focus on assets and forget about debts. Financial security requires facing up to the big picture: assets minus debts.
Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.
Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.
Tracing, freezing, and return of stolen assets has proved in many cases to be exceptionally difficult for most African countries.
Positive and engaged brains are a company's greatest assets. More than time and even more than productivity, people must be happy.
Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.
Time is a corporate asset now. It belongs to the free market system. The present is harder to find... The future becomes insistent.
I built a massive company, a great company, some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world, worth many, many billions of dollars.
A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.
But what those critics don't know is that these same assets that excite me in the chase often, once they are acquired, leave me bored.
The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.
As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse.
As always, work with your figure; draping, pleats, and proportion can work miracles when it comes to hiding flaws and enhancing assets.
Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is have adequate capital.
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.
Financial decision-makers at every level are recognising that fossil fuel investments risk their returns being undermined by stranded assets.
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
You have to say that we are again in a massive financial bubble in bonds, in equities, in [other] asset prices that have gone up dramatically.
Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.
Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.
Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.
I sell my problems. I'm a woman with problems. I've had problems since the day I was born. And I have found a way to turn my problems into assets.
You can't really invest in your looks as the only thing because it's a depreciating asset. It's like putting money into a stock that's going down.
Let's be honest: It wasn't just the banks who messed up. There were a lot of people who tried to buy assets they couldn't afford. That's a reality.
Furthermore, a large portion of the assets of leading Russian figures is mixed, meaning that it is not quite clear how to counter this development.
The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.
I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.
Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.
When you're a model, you learn how to make the most of your assets - in my case, the smallish behind that is the legacy of my half-Japanese heritage.
To the extent the dollar gains strength relative to other currencies, assets priced in those other currencies would become cheaper on a dollar basis.
The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.
It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.
Our safety net must reflect our country's belief that - without exception - Americans are not liabilities to be written off but assets to be realized.
And I gave this directive to them, that if they free our assets in the United States, that would be a sign of goodwill. I have the same idea this time.
Low interest rates benefit individuals or investors who own or want to buy assets; in that regard, they disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.
Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.
Use your assets in the right areas. Commit to outside speed. Don't always go into the junk pile in the middle of the ice when there are eight guys there.
I'd always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.
There's no such thing as a value company. Price is all that matters. At some price, an asset is a buy, at another it's a hold, and at another it's a sell.
If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.
When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.
Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.
Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.
The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.
The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.