paltry

With traditional bonds offering paltry returns, retail investors have piled billions into a new breed of semiliquid funds that promise market-beating yields.

That’s peanuts for schools with paltry endowments, but it’s a stiff tax on many great research universities.

One worry is that thanks to the rapid growth and widespread adoption of index funds that track the S&P 500, many investors have significant exposure to that index and its paltry yield.

The paltry defense launched by the county has some rethinking the law that started the deluge.

During L.A.’s recent heat wave, when temperatures regularly surpassed 90 degrees, a woman selling rose bouquets out of buckets at Pershing Square looked beleaguered while standing in the paltry shade of a tree.