“The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.” HumansWaitingLossInvolvedCostBiggerMajorityReasonableInvestorsWaiting And Hoping Author:William O'Neil
“In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment.” MomentsCharacterPoliticalPoliticsPartyStruggleTerribleCostSucceedMajorityVariousDeceitExpensesPolitical PartiesCunningSupremacyShadyTrickery Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.” JobsWonderCostMajorityUncertaintyObamacareImplementation Author:Pete Sessions
“If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?” IfsActionMoralTakenCostBenefitsMajorityMinoritiesExpensesMoral Action Author:Garth Nix
“Some 3,500 Muslims now serve in the U.S. military. The overwhelming majority of them are loyal Americans who see no conflict between their personal religious duty and service to their country. But there can no place in our military for those persons of any faith who do. America has now seen the horrors of what 'diversity at any cost' can lead to.” PersonsCountryAmericaReligiousMilitaryDutyHorrorCostConflictDiversityMajorityOverwhelmingLoyal Author:Linda Chavez
“New and expanded refundable tax credits would raise the fraction of taxpayers paying no income taxes to almost 50% from 38%. This is potentially the most pernicious feature of the president's budget, because it would cement a permanent voting majority with no stake in controlling the cost of general government.” GovernmentPresidentCostTaxesRaisesMajorityCreditIncomePermanentBudgetsFeaturesVotingStakesTaxpayersFractionsIncome TaxCementPernicious Author:Michael J. Boskin
“A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.” YearsPositionCostLowsYears AgoMajorityInvestmentConvinceFundInvestorsSensibleMentorEquityIndex Funds Author:Warren Buffett
“Obamacare's not imploding. The main goal of Obamacare was two-fold. One was to cover the uninsured, of which we've covered 20 million, the largest expansion in American history. The other was to fix broken insurance markets where insurers could deny people insurance just because they were sick or they had been sick. Those have been fixed, and for the vast majority of Americans, costs in those markets have come down, thanks to the subsidies made available under Obamacare.” PeopleHas BeensMadeTwoGoalMillionsBrokenCostSickMajorityAvailableDenyThanksFixedCoveredAmerican HistoryExpansionFoldsObamacareSubsidies Author:Jonathan Gruber
“I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent the time on Obamacare, which had real benefits, 20 million insured, but not on inequality, was a major cost to the Democratic Party, costing them their majorities, but also a bit of a cost to the country, because it didn't address the fundamental issues that led to Donald Trump and that led to a lot of unhappiness, just the continued widening inequality.” ThinkingRealCountryHouseBitsWhiteViewsPartyMillionsIssuesTrumpCostBenefitsMajorsFundamentalsMajorityDemocraticCongressPoint Of ViewInequalityAddressesUnhappinessWhite HouseProgressiveDemocratic PartyObamacare Author:David Brooks