Were it not for this bit of accounting legerdemain, the true Debt to GDP ratio would show up as a ratio of 119 percent.
But even by the end of the decade its debt as a ratio of GDP will be 120% - the same as Italy's now.
Even if empirical studies show that extending benefits reduces slightly the incentive to seek employment, that argument is weaker (and crueler), he writes, as the ratio of job seekers to job openings rises to very high levels, as it is now.
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As the ratio goes down, a car is transformed from a locomotive to a rocket.
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But, as that ratio implies, experience also argues that higher taxes should be part of the mix.
In Ireland and the Netherlands, on the other hand, warning sirens should have been blaring as the ratio has hit new highs.
As the ratio of peak throughput to average throughput goes up, paying for the peak becomes unattractive for all but the heaviest users.
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As the ratio of retirees to workers grows and the cost of health care rises, Medicare and Social Security will eventually suffocate the budget.
Money will be tight to pay for their care, as the ratio of taxable workers per benefits-collecting retiree will shrink from four to two.
Clearly as the ratio of buy ratings to neutral ratings on the stock indicates, there is a firmly entrenched strong case to be long Home Depot.
Both companies are similarly valued if you look at market capitalization plus debt as a ratio of earnings before accounting charges, a common valuation tool for telecom firms.
They knew things about cars that I never wanted to know about, such as torque ratio and the differences between rack and pinion steering vs. worm and roller.
It is slightly higher than in Europe now 51% against 47% and will stay just above European levels as the ratio rises in both places until about 2035 (see top panel of chart 5).
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As the economic news worsens and profits dive, more firms will be at risk of breaching covenants on standard measures such as the ratio of debt to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is defined as the ratio of weight (in kg) to height (in meters) squared and is an inexact measure of body fat, though it supposedly establishes cutoff points of normal weight, overweight, and obesity.
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Crew is a Wall Street darling, as you can see in its high enterprise multiple, defined as the ratio of enterprise value (market value of common, plus debt, minus cash) to Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
Connect or disconnect the power cable has been attention to detail such as the touch pad of the same ratio as the screen, operability magnet power jack, a simple three-point multi-touch enabled.
That led to the widespread use of the Sharpe ratio as a measurement tool.
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The credit-to-GDP ratio as of April was 46.6% of GDP, showing just how underleveraged Brazil really is.
Economists have posited a 90% debt-to-GDP ratio as a tipping point, but in practice there's a wide range of experiences.
But here is where we bump up against my point: the fallacy of the PEG ratio as a valuation measure.
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The Integrity Index identifies companies that have promising increases in dividends while still honoring a low payout ratio as well.
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He specifically cites and disparages his previous book, Superstocks, that introduced the price-to-sales ratio as a way to find undervalued stocks.
The company reported a decline in operating income of 3% year-over-year as the operating ratio increased four-tenths of a percent to 70.5% from 70.1%.
It included the staff-student ratio as a measure of teaching quality.
That's true, in the sense that someone getting the Janus Twenty fund via Schwab bears the same 0.83% annual expense ratio as someone buying directly from Janus.
Over the years, I have found that even a short interest ratio as low as 5, when combined with a positive technical pattern, can set up a good trading opportunity.
Today, MIT and other top institutions have a more balanced male to female student ratio as society and universities finally recognize that math, science, and engineering are not just for boys anymore.
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If you look at a comparison of price-to-earnings in China to those in emerging markets, you have to go back to 2006 to find that ratio as low as it is today.
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