incentive
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You will never hear a financial expert with an incentive tied to your capital tell you to go to cash.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
Stablecoins also have an incentive to “reach for yield,” that is to back their coins with slightly riskier or less liquid assets with higher returns.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
But a tax attorney in Los Angeles, Andrew Gradman, wasn’t convinced the tax incentive was enough to curb a landlord’s appetite for the passive income of steady rent payments.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
There is an obvious incentive – to protect their factories and infrastructure.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
The banning of cigarettes in restaurants and bars is a powerful social incentive.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Vocabulary lists containing incentive
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