that they're going to reduce your price by 50% because if you do buy their product, you might say something good about it and amortize their marketing costs. On the other hand, if I go to Amazon and try and buy some cheese, they might decide to triple the price because I'm nothing but a media
I'm going to talk about the price-earning ratio later. you'll amortize the software.
Feeling comfortable with transforming your national agriculture with drip irrigation doesn't come easily. It could be amortized easily over the 25-year first life of the plant.
and that was in essentially a six-week period. So if you sort of amortize over the year, it's like at least a billion dollar e-commerce platform. But the challenge our guys have is we have an avalanche of traffic that starts to ramp up now and then throughout November.
Again, if I asked you, "Where does your money go?" Most people don't know. Or if they think they know, they don't. We're not cognitively wired to amortize our spending. So if I were to ask you, "How much did you spend?" Did you really count in the $700 in Christmas gifts you spend at the end of the year, adding
OK, let's say bubbles burst. There was a thing called a negatively amortized adjustable rate subprime mortgage. And what that was was a mortgage that when you start out at a very, very low rate.
It was Michael Lewis's book, "The Big Short." OK. It really talked about the negatively amortized adjustable rate subprime mortgage, and it also talked about it in the book. He was talking to the lady in the club, right?
a luxury product and there's a commodity product and you either have to go to mass or you have to go to margin what xiaomi said is if we hire good enough designers and we amortize the cost over a large enough base we can produce a phone that the middle of the market will think is either surprisingly good for
And in 1880 you'd have had to work a whole 15 minutes to earn an hour of reading light. That was the cost of kerosene and the amortize cost of a kerosene lamp. Back in 1800 and you'd have to work for six hours--on the then average wage--to earn the price of a candle that gave you that much light. What that tells you is that in 1800 the average person on the average wage could not afford a candle. And he certainly couldn't afford to sit reading
But here's an interesting piece. When you make your payment on a 30-year fixed rate loan amortized over 30 years at 4%, 30% of that payment goes toward paying down your principal of your loan, reducing your principal.
So every 26th of the month, my bank automatically sends a check to my landlord, and I never have to touch that again. You can automate that as well. closely -- you have to add 40 to 50 percent for maintenance, taxes, insurance, to actually cover your out-of-pocket costs. And remember, you have to amortize your roof
And it did that fairly well. And then, in 1886 -- right in our neck of the woods -- there was a law case called Santa Rosa vs. Pacific Southern Railroad, in which the railroad was saying they wanted a tax break from land that they owned that was losing value. They wanted to amortize their losses as taxes. And they did win the case. And the decision doesn't mention the Fourteenth Amendment at all, but there's something called the 'head note', which was written by the