The reviewer commented that "thirty songs for $50 is a lousy value any way you slice it" and the game "feels like a quick and dirty cash-in".
The Mets, as their principal owner said in comments published this week, are lousy, snakebitten and bleeding cash, having lost $50 million last year alone.
The firm accused the consultants of everything from lousy advice to using cash advances to finance visits to Dallas and New York stripper bars.Figgie International is only the most extreme of a series of disaster stories.
Onshore production in the Niger delta and shale operations in the US are under threat: not because they face opposition from environmentalists but because they provide no or lousy returns for the cash deployed.
If you factor in the auction house cut on potential sales, that's a lousy return for an investor who cashes out.
Have university presidents stood up and objected to the lousy training, or have they willingly accepted the "cash cow" status of their schools of education even though they know the training is sub-standard?
So if the odds are lousy, or at least not very favorable, why not a higher cash allocation?
Playing the lottery is a lousy idea, and blindly investing in the stock market whenever you have cash available is not much better, according to an eye-opening new book by Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth.
This will ring true to anyone who has tried to send cash overseas and found their remittance whittled away by commissions and lousy exchange rates.
The beauty of advisers is that, if you want to cash out, those wise souls can talk you into sticking around, telling you the lousy numbers will improve.
