But the incentive would be much weakened, because gross returns typically represent a fairly small share of total value added.

What are the returns on this ?

Cost reductions that represent a net benefit to society should be regarded favorably.

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On the contrary, they typically get significantly lower returns than Americans get on their investments abroad.

Where does the net gain of roughly 500 billion in global market value come from? We don t know.

For others, low prices would be a tremendous buying opportunity, whose prospective return far exceeds returns from lending today.

The millionaire intended to purchase the masterpiece regardless of cost.

One wonders who was benefiting from this vice ?

You can save more than 80 per cent of the cost of buying a book new.

The gains from financial innovation are too large for more heavy handed intervention.

Evasion of excise taxes is more contagious than evasion of taxes on profits and incomes.

He assures his readers that he will not be making a profit from the book.

Let's split the profits.

The old NPL problem was resolved, primarily by establishing asset management companies to take over doubtful assets, and injecting new capital into the commercial banks.

The cooperative infrastructure model says, why do you want to give up a quarter of the value?

But you get about 80 percent of the way there, for about one percent of the cost.

Now, reported NPLs amount to little more than 1 of assets.

The amount depends on the value of the freight and the distance it will be hauled.

Russia is getting some return from the substantial structural reforms it has actually undertaken.

However, exploitation of niobium resources within Brazil raises questions about the total profit generated by private companies and public organizations.

German banks grant mortgages only to a maximum of 60 of the value of a house, instead of the 100 mortgages that were frequently seen in the US and United Kingdom.

The basic excise tax has been fixed at 16 of the value of a firm's output.

We try to cash in on it.

They netted a good profit.

The company overstated its profits.

We shared the profit equally.

The fight to control oil and gas revenues is paramount in this regard.

But free trade also promises few benefits now and huge benefits in the future.

Reducing transfer costs, which average an estimated 9 of the value of transactions, would put more money into the hands of those who need it most.

Its health care system delivers better outcomes than the US, at a fraction of the cost.

In Thermidor, Year III, assignats were worth less than 3 percent of their face value.

But the whole world economy from China to Germany benefited for decades from Americans debt driven over consumption.

It's because of the high cost.

Money is the measure of worth.

But the yield on such reserves is small, so economizing on them is profitable.

If micro financiers are making profits off the poor, it must be because they are bilking them.

At the moment, the most glaring weakness is the so called yen carry trade.

The plant is expected to bring profits and contribute towards paying off the loan from the EBRD.

Most of these expenditures are also profitable.

Shifts to more energy efficient means of transportation ease congestion.

Couldn t earnings collapse?

On the contrary, it implies excess benefits .

Where profit meets pain

An investment has returns.