diminishing returns
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Some of the ways that Tresnjak ups the ante on that daring have diminishing returns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Attempts to simply talk up the yen were running up against the law of diminishing returns.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The diminishing returns of instant gratification might explain why catalogs are nearly always, according to trade publications and business journals, on the verge of a renaissance.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
“There are diminishing returns to this strategy and Iran’s authority. They are cutting off the branch they are sitting on.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
He also accepts the wages-fund theory, rejects the law of Malthus, and, although believing in the law of diminishing returns from land, regards rent as the reward for a service rendered.
From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill
