In that sense, the rise and ultimate decline of the baseball-card market serves as a micro example of what happens in the economy every day.
When Uncle Sam stops buying, interest rates should rise and bond prices decline.
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As the securities of Portugal and Ireland decline in price and rise in apparent yield, it raises significantly the issue of marking to market the holders of Portuguese and Irish loans, which are also being carried at par.
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Fixed-income investments will almost certainly lose money once rates begin to rise again and bond prices decline.
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With the rise of freeways and the decline of public transportation, businesses began to move to the suburbs.
The depressing thing about the rise of Hamas and the decline of the Fatah wing of the PLO is that it reverses this decades-long trend.
Thus Advantage will become the only entitlement for which real spending will fall slightly year over year and continue to decline, even as health costs rise and more people join the program.
Its citizens are growing ever more conscious of their country's rise and of a perceived relative decline in American power.
Barclays is a bit more cautious, forecasting a 150, 000 rise in nonfarm payrolls and a decline in the unemployment rate to 7.8%.
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When interest rates decline, the value of a bond investment rises, and conversely when rates rise, your bonds decline in value.
In 2008 and 2009, the wealthy saw their share of national income decline and their tax rates rise, in large part because their more lightly taxed capital gains fell.
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As trends go, micro-targeting is on the rise and mass marketing is on the decline.
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This essay is adapted from his new book, "Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline and the Rise of a New Economy, " which will be published Tuesday by the Free Press.
While the exact factors at work aren't clear, IDC blames it on a mix of customers spooked by Windows 8's unfamiliar interface, the continued rise of mobile devices, and the decline of the netbook.
As historian of science Stanley Jaki spent his life documenting, the pagan world view was one of endless cycles, of oscillations, of rise and fall, golden ages of glory, bronze ages of decline, iron and stone ages of despair, with no genuine permanent progress.
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In the late 19th and early 20th century a decline in American farm incomes prompted a rise of populism and progressivism that led to attacks on corporate trusts in America under Theodore Roosevelt.
The study linked the rise in obesity to the decline poverty and fattier diets, the same trends that have affected the West.
What national parties - specially the Congress - sometimes forget is that federalism has radically changed since the rise of smaller, regional parties and the decline of the Congress.
Since individual investors using this strategy must wait 30 days before repurchasing any stock sold at a loss to avoid triggering the wash sale rule, these stocks can decline in December and rise in January.
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The economy might have a noticeable pickup, unemployment could decline, and stocks might rise.
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Despite that obvious trend, Beijing is acutely aware of the other trend, the slow decline in exports and a rise in trade deficits.
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As rates rise, the prices of existing bonds and notes decline.
The decline of manufacturing and the rise of services should be helping to reduce volatility, because demand for services is usually more stable than demand for manufactures.
He was born just before the start of the 16th century, a turbulent age which embraced the origins of Protestantism, the decline of Venice and the rise of the Spanish empire.
Traders do not have the luxury of stopping world-wide trends, so the odds that any one person can halt the decline of America and the rise of China is probably a bit of tilting at windmills.
They discovered that their discipline had been measuring biodiversity with a very narrow lens: looking, for instance, at habitats only in a particular region of the ocean, or at the rise or decline of a particular species, and usually with respect to benchmarks that had been set just decades earlier.
By and large, rental values decline slightly with height (longer lift journeys etc) and construction costs rise disproportionately with height.
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However, in the 1930s, with the rise of new regional powers such as Japan and the decline of the British Navy as a bulwark against threats to the United States, it became necessary for defense planners to consider the possibility of confronting threats in two theaters simultaneously.
In towns with few or just one, prices rise, or the range and quality of goods on offer decline.
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