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"Life kind of has a way of throwing you curve balls at any point of given time, " Chestnut says.
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That concept isn't really compelling to the masses until one focuses on the "knee" of this exponential curve -- the point where the perpetual doubling of technological growth skyrockets and negates the linear models of progress that people like economists have relied on for so long.
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Most students of economics are familiar with the Laffer curve, named by Dr. Art Laffer, which demonstrates how higher taxes do not necessarily mean a higher tax yield, with there being a point (the peak of his curve) after which total revenue falls when the tax rate increases.
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The success of these efforts will depend on our ability to understand where we are on the Sigmoid Curve and to determine the ideal point of transformation.
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They will prevent the two monetary cures from inflicting that bad old J-curve bleeding of the patient to the point of death.
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Most economic analyses of climate change concentrate on the likeliest outcome the highest point in the probability curve.
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The whole point of the QEs is for the Fed to expand its interest rate policy influence to the whole yield curve.
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The requirement, drawn up after Robert Maxwell robbed his companies' pensions funds in the early 1990s, attempts to assess the present value of pension funds' future liabilities, taking the yield curve on gilts as its reference point.
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Round a curve I scared the hell out of a flock of feral goats, and at one point, came over a rise to see the road just drop off into a slalom down to a mangrove-studded beach.
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