An aggressive investor with an appetite for risk, Mr. Picower also borrowed heavily at Goldman to trade stocks, amplifying his profits.
According to people familiar with his thinking, Snyder believes the best way to revive fans' interest and amplify his profits is a new stadium on the RFK Stadium site, which is revered among Redskins fans who remember three Super Bowl triumphs under Hall of Fame Coach Joe Gibbs.
Wall Street has always used other people's money to amplify its profit, but in recent years, the use of debt ballooned.
This leverage amplified Lehman's profits during good years, but it also amplified its losses in a bad year.
Those profits are amplified by the NRA's marketing strategy which can be summed up as "keep em' scared".
Of course, even before DVD some films found larger audiences on video than at the box office; DVD has amplified the effect and the profits.
Co-authored by Natalie Bridgeman Fields, Founder and Executive Director of Accountability Counsel, a non-profit organization that amplifies the voices of communities around the world to protect their human rights and environment.
But hedging was merely a euphemism, the report asserts, describing the CIO as a locus of increasingly speculative trading made for no reason other than to amplify the bank's potential profits.
Leverage can supercharge profits, but it also amplifies losses.
Joel Klein is aware of the problem and sees it as the way Amplify can turn a profit on the venture.
All of this is amplified by a for-profit prison system with guaranteed occupancy rates, a weapons industry that markets military grade weapons to municipal police departments, and the increased aggression of highly weaponized police officers.
