But in the long term, selling off state-owned, profit-making assets can only ever make the government all the more dependent on tax revenues.
In the long term, selling off social housing at a heavy discount and over-inflating prices on new-build properties while helping people take a step on to a rung of an increasingly precarious housing ladder hurts more people than it helps.
That may not matter, however, according to Neil Sweig, a drug analyst at Fulcrum Global Partners who has a long-term "sell" rating on Johnson & Johnson.
He believed the main event was a "cluster," the Gauntlet match was "pointless," and the Monster's Ball match was the "same ole' carwreck match with no long-term selling and too many highspots that didn't mean much at the end of the day".
As for the Monster's Ball match, Keller said it was a "good one" but it was "tough to go to four stars for a match that includes so many huge spots and little long-term selling, but it's also hard not to rate it this high when there's a potential "big spot of the year" and a crowd chanting "That was awesome!" afterward".
Even though analysts believe the company can carry an annualized growth rate of 23% over the long term, shares sell for only 7.3 times predicted profits of $3.38 per share.
The company's Kindle e-readers are now a full-blown family of tablet computers, which it sells for little or no profit, with the goal of making money over the long term by selling books, movies, music and other services.
That may turn out to be a better business over the long term than selling the finished phones themselves, says analyst Bryan Prohm of Gartner Dataquest.
"Like Chairman Martin, we do not believe in the long term that selling programming a la carte will be detrimental to either programmers or cable operators," Dolan said (see: "Dolan Likes Idea Of A La Carte Cable" ).
If you start messing with it, you might sell a lot of IAP in the short term, but in the long term you may sell less overall," he says.
They recycle goods, create jobs for the long term unemployed and sell furniture for low income households.
