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Just ''don’t''. Unless you have a stammer and can’t help it. | Just ''don’t''. Unless you have a stammer and can’t help it. | ||
“[[Net-net]]” is a value investing technique developed by Benjamin Graham<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Security-Analysis-Sixth-Foreword-Warren-Buffett-Editions/0071592539 Mr Graham’s famous book</ref> — Warren Buffett’s guru, that’s who — in which a company is valued based solely on its net current assets. Users of this expression, should they be talking about matters financial, usually mean just “[[net]]” — that is to say, assets minus liabilities. Somehow “net-net” has become a fashionable way of saying “at the end of the day”, or “in the long run”, or “when all is said and done”. | “[[Net-net]]” is a value investing technique developed by Benjamin Graham<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Security-Analysis-Sixth-Foreword-Warren-Buffett-Editions/0071592539 Mr Graham’s famous book]</ref> — Warren Buffett’s guru, that’s who — in which a company is valued based solely on its net current assets. Users of this expression, should they be talking about matters financial, usually mean just “[[net]]” — that is to say, assets minus liabilities. Somehow “net-net” has become a fashionable way of saying “at the end of the day”, or “in the long run”, or “when all is said and done”. | ||
''In the long run we are all dead'', as Keynes said, as indeed will anyone be, to [[Amwell J|me]], who uses this ghastly {{csaprov|buzzword}}. | ''In the long run we are all dead'', as Keynes said, as indeed will anyone be, to [[Amwell J|me]], who uses this ghastly {{csaprov|buzzword}}. | ||
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