Seven hundred pages for £9.99 might seem like value for money, but only if you place absolutely no value on your time.
Occasionally, this grand indulgence of a gig does approach something like value for money.
Same goes for things like valuing friends who get you into the best clubs over friends who'll hold your hair back while you puke.
It turns on a number of tricky doctrinal issues like value for money and the integrity of public-sector accounting.
We like value for money over here: three courses in ample portions, with time to linger over dessert and a double espresso.
Forbes: Alex and Peter, are there some names you like right now? Goldfarb: For a great value, I like apartment-owner Colonial Properties Trust.
Then there is Cook, who "really doesn't understand how a brand is impacted by sales channel -- it just isn't his skill set -- but does understand that the more stores you sell something in the more product you are likely to move". This is a model that works better for a value vendor like Samsung than the premium offering that Apple sells, but so far it is working.
But even if you exclude that stuff, the newspaper division lost about a million dollars over the past year, which means its earnings multiple was negative — hardly a buy signal for a value investor like Buffett.
But even if you exclude that stuff, the newspaper division lost about a million dollars over the past year, which means its earnings multiple was negative hardly a buy signal for a value investor like Buffett.
That's a lot, but if you can buy medallions for ninety per cent less to operate in a business that's down twenty per cent, the conditions may be ripe for a value investment — like buying real estate in 2009.
For a value investor like me, last year was excellent.
