Says FORBES columnist Kenneth Fisher, "Buying the S&P Index is a good idea for long-term investors, but people who do should hire a psychologist to tie their hands when the market crashes".
Sure Osborne looked pleased with himself, as he always does, but he made Darling admit that Labour was dropping the idea of a "death tax" to pay for long term care, and fess up to nicking the Conservative plan to raise the threshold on stamp duty in last week's budget.
Various ideas on the design concepts of habitable megafloats (HMF) for long term human habitation have emerged.
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They prefer to allow ideas including ideas for long-term strategies to bubble up from the bottom and middle of the organisations rather than being imposed from on high.
"In the next few weeks, we'll be asking you to do some of the same things we asked of you during the campaign — talking directly to people in your communities about the president's ideas for long-term prosperity," Mr. Plouffe wrote.
(for Long Term Evolution).
Complete Slayer assignments for long term reward.
Sixty-two percent said it was a "good idea" to pay for long-term unemployed workers to train at private companies for eight weeks, and give the companies an option to hire them; just 17 percent said it was a bad idea, and 21 percent said they didn't know enough.
Over the past year EU leaders have squashed most ideas from Brussels for long-term reform, such as mutualised debt, a central euro-zone budget or greater powers to dictate national economic policies.
This issue, plus the idea of amortized accounting for long-term investments, is merely to try to put our national finances in a different, and hopefully more intelligent, context than they usually are when the deficit hawks start their periodic circling.
