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A strategy that I have used during the Sifma Stock Market Game is a strategy called, “value investing.” From the research I have conducted, I have learned that value investing is a very popular long term investing strategy where one buys a stock that is believed to be “undervalued”, and hold that stock until it reaches its true value. There are many well-known investors who are known to use this strategy, a few investors who follow this strategy include Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, and Seth Klarman

benefits of education still outweigh the costs. Different education levels have different returns in terms of investment. Despite the rate of college-educated workers rate of unemployment remaining low, they are struggling to fit in the job market. What amounts to uncertainty in the benefit of college education is the struggle that comes in paying education loan debts and the rising cost of education. With the return on investment in education remaining at 15%, most people would argue that is not a sound

Our project was for Justiss Oil Company. They plan to drill six gas wells near Alexandria, LA. The gas wells will produce approximately 97% methane. Three of the wells will have one interest owner, while the other three have different interest owners. Our goals include designing the pipeline and surface equipment, analyzing the costs and plans for drilling the wells, designing an efficient road system while minimizing cost, and calculating total expected future revenues. Our primary goal is to determine

I would like to see the social security system completely reorganized and a higher retirement age for anyone born after the year 2000. This reorganization would not affect anyone born before the year 2000 in any way. However, anyone that can retire before 2035 will have the option to invest up to twenty-five percent of their current social security withholdings in a 401k type retirement plan. An option of this type would allow the individual to decide where their investment goes and thus reduce

SOUTHERN TIER (WENY) - The Southern Tier made out big at New York State's version of the 'Hunger Games'. The region was awarded $500 million through the Upstate Revitalization Initiative competition. Under the Upstate Revitalization Initiative (URI) competition, there was $1.5 billion set to be divided up and go towards economic development projects. This is the first year New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo launched the URI program and he says it's meant to be an opportunity for communities

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is the most used technique for evaluating health interventions. In this type of analysis, the basic question is asked, “How much health benefit do we get for our money? The purpose of the CEA is to help decision makers allocate health care resources efficiently. In a CEA, the analyst expresses health benefits in unit of health outcome (e.g., life saved) and the costs in dollars. They calculate a cost-effectiveness ratio: the ratio of dollars expended to health outcome

Someone who fits Wolf’s second and third criteria but not her first, would be someone who buys and sells stocks just to earn some extra money. This person fits Wolf’s second criteria because they are invested in what they are doing. They are buying and selling socks on the stock market to make money. They don’t want to end up loosing money. The whole reason that the person is even buying and selling stocks is to make extra money, so if they lost money they would be doing the exact opposite of why

Cost Analysis The three options available for New Century Wellness Group is investigated for cost effectiveness as described below and visualized on the following table. Current System (Manual): The current system with manual input will incur an expense of $195,000 over the next five years. These costs are due to staff overtime of ($15+$7.50=22.50 hr. x 6 hrs.=$135x52 wks.=) $7,020.00. With the addition of a new hire for the last 26 weeks (six months) of the first year, it will cost $15,600.00

BIG FLATS (WENY) - Within the next year nearly 800 new jobs could be coming to Airport Corporate Park in Big Flats, pending financial help from New York State. Chemung County Executive Tom Santulli says the home furnishings e-commerce customer service business, Wayfair, is looking to buy the former Corning Shared Services building on Daniel Zenker Drive for a future in-bound call center. The company says it would create 450 jobs over the next three years. Wayfair is looking for $3.7 million from

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