Based on volumes of activity and current cost structures of many banks, operating costs may need to fall by 20%-45% and the balance sheet by 50%-75%, through closing or selling branches, products, business lines, and even entire regions.
They raise the cost of economic activity and allow less of it to take place.
Whether tax rate increases are totally self-defeating or only partially so, their cost in reduced economic activity is high relative to tax revenue gained.
The reliance on low interest rates to spur activity was exemplified in the weekly MBA mortgage activity indices where a challenged housing market failed to spark either purchase or refinancing activity despite a slide in borrowing cost last week.
My backup is the home mortgage market activity as well as brokerage house earnings powered by cost-cutting.
Every sports parent, particularly those who have children who love or appear to be good at a certain sport, has to make the decision as to whether the right thing is to go all in, no matter what the cost, or decide to treat the activity as secondary, and let the chips fall where they may.
The true cost of the government assistance for a particular activity (such as subsidizing those paying college tuition) is not obvious.
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Will it be cost efficient for ICE to move all stock trading activity to Georgia and to remodel its New York space as condominiums?
Called TDABC (time-driven activity-based costing), it attempted to relate the measurement of cost to time.
The cost was rocketing interest rates, plunging asset prices, slowing business activity and rising unemployment.
The Open Compute Project was the result of an activity at Facebook to build the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.
Use of software like Marketo is done on a longer term, but the cost can be ratcheted up or down based on how much marketing activity is flowing through.
To generate the rankings, we made a list of 40 large U.S. metropolitan centers, then ranked each of them in seven areas: nightlife, culture, job growth, number of other singles, cost of living alone, coolness and, for the first time, online dating activity.
It should be noted, however, that increasing the cost of Business and General Aviation (such as charging higher user fees) would reduce activity levels in this form of air transportation.
The cost of reviving the 2% tax on wages for the middle class is expected to reduce economic activity by at least 0.5%.
Proponents note that the overall cost of the project would be recouped within a few decades, as the volume of tunnel freight transport activity increased, reaching an estimated 3 percent of the world's total physical cargo or 100 million tons annually.
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