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2. A REPLY TO DR. NUTI ON THE RATE OF RETURN.
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Pasinetti, Luigi L.
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RATE of return , *ECONOMIC equilibrium , *PRICING - Abstract
Focuses on issues concerning on rate of returns. Details on general equilibrium models; Assumptions on pricing policies; Relation between aggregate capital and profit rates.
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- 1974
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3. ON THE RATES OF RETURN ON INVESTMENT.
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Nuti, Domenico Mario
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RATE of return , *CONSUMPTION (Economics) - Abstract
In this paper alternative approaches to intertemporal allocation and prices are considered (Section I) and used to reject some claims and criticisms on the equality of transformation rates and relative prices in an intertemporal framework appeared in recent literature (Section II). It is argued that the extension of conventional results to the intertemporal case is prevented by the nature of intertemporal exchange in a capitalist economy (Section III).
In recent economic literature a number of conflicting views have been expressed about the equality between interest rates, rates of return on investment, and rates of time preference; and about the very notion of internal rate of return. R.M. So-Low regards such equality as a particularly significant result, and treats the notion of the internal rate of return as the very foundation of capital theory (1963, 1966, 1967). L.L. PASINETTI denies that such an equality can hold even within the Fisherian framework (1969). C.R.S. DOUGHERTY vindicates the legitimacy of the Fisherian approach and claims it is 'dynamic', and regards the internal rate of return as an element of a 'search rule' for consumption optimization. In this paper alternative approaches to intertemporal allocation and prices are considered (Section 1) and used to reject these claims and criticisms on the equality of transformation rates and relative prices in an intertemporal framework, while the internal rate of return appears to have neither theoretical nor operational significance (Section 2). It is argued that the extension of conventional results to the intertemporal case is prevented by the nature of intertemporal exchange in a capitalist economy, namely by the absence of markets for future manufactured commodities. Since money is the only forward market extant (with the exception of forward markets for a handful of primary products) interest rates cannot be considered to measure rates of return on or preference rates for anything other than... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 1974
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4. NOTES.
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RATE of return , *BUSINESS records , *TAX laws , *FINANCIAL performance , *EXPECTED returns , *REINVESTMENT , *WINDFALL profits , *PROFIT maximization - Abstract
This article informs that the Excess Profits Tax Act of 1950 was enacted to help meet the need for revenue by taxing corporate profits considered attributable to current mobilization spending. All corporation net income is made subject to the normal tax and surtax, and, in addition, profits above "normal" are taxed at the "excess" profits rate of thirty percent. The statute permits corporations which come within standards defining an abnormally low base-period earnings record to calculate the tax on a substitute earnings record derived from the base-period rate of return for the taxpayer's industry. The use of an industry rate of return as a substitute for actual earnings by corporations having a subnormal base-period profits record represents a sharp departure from the World War II method of measuring relief.
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- 1951
5. PERSONAL CONTACT AS A TECHNIQUE FOR INCREASING QUESTIONNAIRE RETURNS FROM HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS AFTER DISCHARGE.
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Skipper Jr., James K. and Ellison, Margaret D.
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HOSPITAL patients , *RATE of return , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *HEALTH , *MEDICAL care , *THERAPEUTICS - Abstract
A major disadvantage of using mail questionnaires to obtain research data is the possibility of a very low rate of return. In a study of hospitalized patients, personal face-to-face contact with respondents by a sponsor of a study before questionnaires were mailed was found to be an effective method for increasing returns. This technique appears suited for research in the health fields where patients may be contacted while they are under medical care, and then later mailed a questionnaire concerning information about their activities and behavior when they are no longer under treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1966
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6. On the Stable Paretian Behavior of Stock-Market Prices.
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Der-Ann Hsu, Miller, Robert B., and Wichern, Dean W.
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DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory) , *RATE of return , *PROBABILITY theory , *STOCKS (Finance) , *RATIO analysis , *ANALYSIS of variance , *FINANCIAL performance - Abstract
In this article we present some empirical evidence which indicates that attempts to represent the probability distribution of the rates of return on common stocks by a member of the stable Paretian family of distributions, with 1 < alpha < 2, may be misleadingand in fact may not produce an adequate fit to observed rates of return. We offer an alternative probability model for describing rates of return based on the hypothesized phenomenon of a changing variance. We test the "goodness of fit" of our model vis-a-vis a stable Paretian model for several series of rates of return, Finally we propose an extension of the stability test of Fama and Roll [6]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1974
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7. THE PROGRESS OF THE LAW ON NO PAR VALUE STOCK.
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Wickersham, Cornelius W.
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INVESTORS , *INTERNAL rate of return , *LAW , *STOCKS (Finance) , *LEGAL procedure , *CONSTITUTIONAL law - Abstract
The article focuses on the progress of the law on no par value stock. The device of stock without par value may be regarded as the result of efforts to mitigate the frauds on investors sometimes attending the sale to the public of par value stock. It has been strongly attacked and warmly defended. Without analyzing in detail the arguments advanced by its opponents or friends, it seems sale to say that it increases the difficulties of selling a piece of paper to the gullible for more than its real worth. From the legal point of view a certificate of no par value stock is closer to truth than one alleging a fixed value.
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- 1924
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8. Unbiased Estimators of Long-Run Expected Rates of Return.
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Blume, Marshall E.
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FINANCIAL instruments , *MATHEMATICS , *RATE of return , *SECURITIES , *STOCK transfer , *CALCULATORS - Abstract
This article documents the biases in using sample arithmetic or geometric means of one-period returns to assess long-run expected rates ot return. The formulas developed are applicable to other compound growth processes. For types of distributions of one-period returns likely to be encountered for bonds and stocks, numerical values for these biases are given. Four unbiased estimators of long-run expected rates of return are developed and their relative efficiency examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1974
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9. THE INTELLIGIBILITY OF EXCERPTS FROM CONVERSATION.
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Pollack, Irwin and Pickett, J. M.
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INTELLIGIBILITY of speech , *CONVERSATION , *RATE of return , *TEMPO (Phonetics) , *SPEECH therapy , *MOOD (Psychology) , *EDUCATION - Abstract
This paper examines the intelligibility of conversational speech by excising words from the fluent stream of speech. In a companion study, the paper examines the intelligibility of words removed from prescribed text spoken fluently at different rates. The method of varying the talker's rate of utterance was through instruction and coaching. In conversational speech, however, rate of utterance is varied by the talker for many reasons, such as the emphasis desired, mood, personal habit, and the speed with which the talker can organize what he wants to say.
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- 1963
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10. Washington Wire.
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AUTOMOBILE industry , *RATE of return on stocks , *PRESIDENTS of the United States ,UNITED States politics & government - Abstract
The article presents news briefs about various issues of the U.S. The General Motors stock has suddenly jumped by 14 3/8 points. The reason being increase in wages of workers in the auto industry. As per the "New York Journal of Commerce", a hike of $100 in the smaller car segment is most likely by the next year. The trend of monopoly is increasing in the U.S. After steel industry, auto industry is heading towards this path. In another development, it is observed that U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower has been able to gain the confidence of his political allies as well as antis before he left for Geneva. Also, the efforts to get the bill passed to free natural gas from federal regulation are continuously gaining momentum. Man behind this being Senator Paul Douglas, Democrat from Illinois.
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- 1955
11. Proxmire's Priorities.
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Geoghegan, Tom
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UNITED States legislators , *BUDGET , *MUNICIPAL bonds , *RATE of return , *PUBLIC investments , *INVESTMENTS - Abstract
Focuses on the political career of U.S. Senator William Proxmire. Information that Proxmire is chairman of a subcommittee in Appropriations and ranks second on Banking and Currency; Complaint of Proxmire that the nation's budget is a systems analyst's nightmare, full of municipal bond write-offs and foreign aid bonanzas; Interests of Proxmire in comparing the rate of return on government investment with the rate of return on private investment.
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- 1972
12. Financial Implications of Plans: Four Common Methods.
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Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Fogler, H. Russell
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BUSINESS planning , *INVESTMENTS , *RATE of return - Abstract
Focuses on the financial implications of business planning. Method of ranking investment alternatives; Definition of payback period; Estimation of the rate of return on investment.
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- 1971
13. ECONOMIC TRANSITION FROM TRADITIONAL TO COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE: THE CASE OF EL LLANO, MEXICO.
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Lentnek, Barry
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LABOR economics , *REVENUE management , *DAIRY products industry , *AGRICULTURE , *INCOME , *LABOR productivity - Abstract
El Llano is the southwestern quarter of the State of Aguascalientes in Mexico. Its economy in 1962 and 1963 was based upon three major activities: corn and bean farming, dairying, and export of labor services to the United States. The low levels of per family income found in the region were caused by low levels of productivity of corn and bean agriculture, for two reasons. First, income from corn and beans formed nearly half the gross regional income. Second, several of the other sources of regional income were technically tied to the level of harvest of corn and beans owing to the use of the harvest and its by-products as inputs to the other activities. The level of productivity in the cultivation of corn and beans was very low primarily owing to two causes. El Llano is located on the arid margin of corn and bean agriculture in Mexico. Also, the level of traditional technology is primitive. Moreover, El Llano's farmers were cultivating their land so intensively that the marginal productivity of labor was zero and the marginal productivity of capital was equal to its marginal cost. A market for fluid milk developed just prior to the period of the study (1962-1963) through construction of farm-to-market roads and the opening of a powdered milk plant by the Nestle Corporation in the vicinity. The rate of return to investment in dairying was more than four times the rate of return to an equivalent investment in corn and bean cultivation. Investment funds were obtained by many of the region's families by performing contract labor services in the United States. The rate of growth of income from dairying as a proportion of gross regional income was less than optimal given the high rates of return to investment in dairying. The United States terminated the large scale importation of Mexican farm laborers in 1965, so this source of investment funds has been eliminated. The general future of El Llano's economy is bleak unless the process of conversion from corn and bean agriculture to some form of animal husbandry is continued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1969
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14. THE EFFECT OF THE RECENT DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT ON REPRODUCTION COST AS A TEST OF VALUE.
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Matthews, Nathan
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ACTIONS & defenses (Administrative law) , *TELECOMMUNICATION systems , *LEGAL procedure , *INTERNAL rate of return , *COST , *CONSTITUTIONAL law - Abstract
The article discusses on the effect of the recent decisions of the supreme court on reproduction cost as a test of value. The recent Supreme Court cases would appear to have settled one important question of constitutional law, and to have raised without settling one equally, perhaps more, important question of evidence. Unless the Supreme Court sees fit to substitute the views so forcibly expressed in the minority opinion in the South-Western Telephone case for the less skillfully presented majority opinion, that they must assume that the present value of the company's property, rather than the capital invested in the business, is to be taken as the base value in a rate case.
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- 1924
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15. A CRITICAL COMPARISON OF THESE STRATEGIES OF COLLECTING DATA FROM HOUSEHOLDS.
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Hochstim, Joseph R.
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HOUSEHOLDS , *MATHEMATICAL statistics , *PROBABILITY measures , *PROBABILITY theory , *STATISTICAL sampling , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *RATE of return - Abstract
Returns and findings from three strategies of data collection are compared. Each strategy contains personal interviews, telephone interviews, and mail questionnaires in different combinations--one mainly personal, one mainly telephone, and one mainly mail. All three strategies are based on area probability samples of households in Alameda County, California. The test was made on two separate studies, with identical questionnaires used in all strategies within each study. The responses from the three strategies were found to be highly comparable. Rate of return and rate of completeness of questionnaires were high for all three; substantive findings were virtually interchangeable; and there was little difference in validity. The only important difference was cost per interview which varied considerably by strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1967
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16. T. R. B. from Washington.
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ELECTRIC utility laws , *ELECTRICITY , *STATE governments , *RATE of return - Abstract
Examines problems with the retail regulation of electricity by states in the U.S. Concerns regarding the costs of the distribution of propaganda by utilities which are charged to consumers; Details of a testimony taken by the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce in June 1967 regarding the fair return and actual charges reported by the nation's largest electric utilities; Criticisms against the regulation of electric utilities by state legislatures.
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- 1967
17. Giving the Railroads a Chance.
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RAILROADS , *PUBLIC utilities , *INTERSTATE commerce , *RATE of return , *PROFIT - Abstract
Comments on the issues concerning the railroads in the U.S. Significance of the formation of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Rate of return from railroad investment; Net income of the railroad industry in 1962.
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- 1962
18. An Analysis of Changes in the Relative Importance of Member Bank Loan and Security Income.
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Dulan, Harold A.
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BANK loans , *INCOME , *BANKING industry , *STOCKS (Finance) , *LIQUIDITY (Economics) - Abstract
The article presents an analysis of changes in the relative importance of member bank loan and security income in the United States. Prior to 1943, member banks in the United States relied upon interest and discount on loans for, the largest portion of their total current operating earnings. Since 1943, however, interest and dividends on securities have contributed the largest, percentage of total current earnings. The major reasons for this decline in the importance of loan income are well known. The sharp decline in security values following the stock market crash in 1929 forced the liquidation of many loans for purchasing or carrying securities. As a result of these developments, income from loans has declined significantly in importance as an income factor for banks. Although loan income declined in importance from 65.2 percent of total current earnings in 1929 to 30.1 percent in 1944, the trend was not, steadily downward throughout the entire period. The decline in the relative importance of loan income is the result of several causes. The relative importance of loans to total earning assets has declined. Likewise, there has been a consistent downward pressure on the rate of return on loans, particularly agricultural loans.
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- 1947
19. THE ECONOMICS OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT.
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Fürst, Hans
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OCCUPATIONAL training , *CAREER development , *ECONOMICS - Abstract
Discusses financial tools for influencing management on training and development. Inclusion of the economic calculation for personnel training that is based on the budget; Establishment of the duration of a course; Assessment of the economic value of management development; Ways of carrying out investment calculations; Calculation of the internal rate of return.
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- 1970
20. Better R-E-D than Dead.
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Boulding, Kenneth E.
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RESEARCH , *UNITED States education system , *SOCIAL development , *GROSS national product , *SOCIAL systems ,UNITED States economy, 1961-1971 - Abstract
Stresses the importance of research, education and development to the economic and social development of the U.S. Percentage of the gross national product which was applied to research and development from 1960 to 1961; Rate of return on investment in research in hybrid corn as of 1962; Lack of intellectual effort for the country's social system.
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- 1962
21. INTERPRETATION OF RETURNS ON MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE INVESTMENT ALTERNATIVES.
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Mayer, Raymond R.
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CAPITAL investments , *CORPORATE finance - Abstract
Evaluates the capital investment alternatives of firms by means of a discounted cash flow method. Calculation of the rate of return of investment; Use of existing unit of equipment in manufacturing operations; Lists of expected annual returns on investments.
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- 1971
22. Guiding Guided Capitalism.
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Kendrick, John W.
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CAPITALISM , *EMPLOYMENT , *FREE enterprise , *TAX reform , *INVESTMENTS , *RATE of return ,UNITED States economy, 1961-1971 - Abstract
Asserts the need for a guided capitalism to address the problems facing the U.S. economy. Importance of high employment to a free-enterprise economy; Effect of tax reforms on private intangible investments; Activities which stimulate high rate of returns.
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- 1962
23. U.S. WEATHER BUREAU.
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METEOROLOGICAL services , *GOVERNMENT agencies , *PUBLIC investments - Abstract
Focuses on the importance of the functions of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Overview of the annual budget for the agency; Analysis on the rate of return of the government's investment for the bureau; Significance of weather forecasts to the prevention of natural calamity damages.
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- 1902
24. Airline Simulation for Analysis of Commercial Airplane Markets.
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Howard, Lee R. and Eberhardt, Duane O.
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AIRLINE industry , *COMMERCIAL aeronautics passenger traffic , *AIR travel , *COMMERCE , *AIRPLANES , *MARKETS , *EVALUATION , *ECONOMICS , *COMMERCIAL aeronautics , *DESIGN , *RATE of return - Abstract
The Lockheed Airline System Simulation is discussed as a step-by- step evaluation of the economics of different ways of routing passenger travel demand. Interacting items that are discussed include forecast passenger traffic demand, persistence of demand, purpose of travel, passenger preferences toward fare and speed, aircraft characteristics, flight frequency, route interaction, and competitive and regulatory influences. Also discussed are specific uses of the simulation program during the design of the supersonic transport. The first use is in determining the optimum SIST size, speed and sonic boom characteristics. The impact of a refined SST on the air transport environment is then discussed. This latter subject is presented in terms of airplane requirements, load factors, airline earnings and airline return on investment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1967
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25. Total War Requires Free Enterprise.
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Drucker, Peter F.
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FREE enterprise , *MANAGEMENT , *EMPLOYEES , *WORLD War II , *RATE of return , *SMALL business , *ACCOUNTING - Abstract
The article reflects on the importance of free enterprise and the individual initiative of the management and employees in the U.S. in light of the World War II. According to the author, the refusal of German chancellor Adolf Hitler to allow private initiative and responsibility is his greatest weakness. The nation faces the challenge of mobilizing individual responsibility, enterprise and initiative for the war effort. The invested-capital basis of computing returns would discriminate against small business.
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- 1942
26. We Do Deny.
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DIVIDENDS , *CORPORATE finance , *DIVIDEND reinvestment , *AUTOMOBILE industry - Abstract
Presents views and insights on the significance of the extra dividends to be paid on General Motors Corp. in the generation of employment in the U.S. Assessment of the extra dividend paid by the company on its common stock; Disparities in earnings made by the stockholders and employees; Rate of return of dividends for the company.
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- 1935
27. Inflation Can be Cozy.
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Yoder, Robert M.
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PRICE inflation , *INVESTMENT advisors , *HEDGING (Finance) , *DEBTOR & creditor , *PURCHASING , *RATE of return , *HOUSE buying , *MORTGAGES - Abstract
The article presents an opinion on recommendations from financial experts on coping with inflation. One can hedge against inflation by borrowing money to assume the debtor position. An expert advised to buy goods or securities which will rise in price or value and dispose them near the peak of inflation at prices which will return more money. Another encouraged house buyers to pay off their mortgage as quickly as possible.
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- 1948
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