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(That kind return on investment isn't normal, at least these days Kelley Blue Book lists the 4-year resale value of the 2010 Toyota Prius at 55% of the original MSRP).
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The finest kitchen renovation with a Sub-Zero refrigerator, Italian mosaic backsplash and black slate countertops would never yield that kind of return.
In the private equity business that kind of return doesn't happen very often, especially with figures as big as these (see table).
As Mr. Dankner put it: "Depending on how you model it, it would take $750,000 earning a 6.5 percent interest to get that kind of return.
And many investors would be happy to get that kind of return.
Wouldn't you consider taking out a $20,000 or $30,000 loan — the cost of a Honda Accord with a few options — for that kind of return?
Citibank would love to get that kind of return on its investments -- so why isn't Citibank lending money in Bangladesh villages?
"I don't see that kind of return there".Some experts think it's impossible for the state to make as much from taxes as it does from its sales monopoly, the Washington Post's Rosalind Helderman reported last month.
"People shouldn't expect that kind of return" in 2003, said Mr. Hinman of Pacific Investment Management, noting that there had been extraordinary reasons for the market's decline in 1990, like the bankruptcy of Drexel Burnham Lambert, then the leading underwriter of junk bonds.
Good luck finding that kind of return nearly anywhere else in public budgets.
That kind of return didn't justify Sandler's large upfront pay.
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