Some new investments make it particularly easy to speculate on just such matters.

But if an investment makes money without creating jobs, it fails an important test.

Your investment may make no profit or even decline in value.

Normally, the thinking goes, an investment might make a huge profit, but there is always a risk of a big loss if things go wrong.

The bottom-line question you should always ask yourself is: Does this investment make sense for me?

This investment has made possible the recent upgrades to the site.

More public investments make sense in the short run, because they would help stimulate the economy out of recession.

But let's not pretend that foreign investment will make China a democracy.

One extremely successful investment made a profit of nearly half a million dollars.

His investments made him a millionaire by the age of 31.