Say a business owner with 1, 000 employees buys basic term life insurance for everybody.
As I watch these swings I am continually reminded that markets react emotionally in the short term although they tend to reflect basic economics in the global economy in the longer term.
"Basic Need" is a term used to cover essential school places - needed to keep up with population growth.
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Because the Electoral College encourages political stability--a basic condition for long-term progress.
Viewed in that fashion, the New Economy is nothing more than a fancy term for the basic infrastructure that allows consumers and companies across the globe to shop, work and play at Internet speed.
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Not considered are the longer-term benefits wrought by basic incentives.
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Current accounting rules allow retailers that sign certain long-term leases to omit the leased property from their balance sheets. (The basic rule is that omission is acceptable if the lease term is less than 75% of the useful life of the building.) But the Financial Accounting Standards Board may change that next year.
In the absence of sensible policies that invest in long-term public goods like education or basic research, roads, railways, broadband, a smart electric grid -- an absence of those investments can be equally disastrous.
In 2008 Korea introduced an earned-income tax credit, a universal basic pension and an insurance scheme providing long-term care for the elderly.
"It's fairly common for anyone from your basic thieves to corporate executives to have a short-term perspective, " Fahy said.
Other potential steps toward 4% include smarter immigration policy, freer trade, more encouragement to entrepreneurship and more domestic energy development, and, for the longer term, serious education reform and substantially more basic research.
But in his world, which is not the world occupied by most people, it is the trimmings around the basic pay - the bonus scheme and the long-term incentive plan - that are the real and substantial remuneration meal.
Let me start with the basic definition of cultural movements, at least as I use the term.
The long-term goal of complete freedom of movement should be a basic tenet of any liberal agenda.
Many multinational companies treat bonuses or long-term incentives on a common global basis, but set basic pay locally.
It is likely the reaction this time will be the same -- compensation will rise, but banks in the mid-to-long term won't need to have to pay big basic salaries and slowly businesses that don't need to be in the EU will cease to be.
The basic point is that although there are powerful arguments for awarding longer term contracts, so that the successful bidder has an incentive to spend serious money on the best kit, a healthy scepticism needs to be attached to forecasts of the health of the economy and of the relevant public service over a time period as long as three parliaments.
The basic asset allocation theory that caught on was based on some long-term data and showed the value of blending stocks, bonds and cash.
And he said the new performance-related pay system for teachers at the top of the basic salary scale would make "a substantial difference" in the longer term.
That's a shame for investors, because around 90% of the market's long-term return can be linked directly to dividends--the basic yield and then the growth over time of that coupon.
If this budget agreement scores badly on long-term fiscal prudence and incentives to growth, it fails miserably on other basic tests of good fiscal policy.
The development of infrastructure and access to education and basic public services are not only necessary for sustainability and development in the long-term but also to serve as the foundation and catalysts for entrepreneurial opportunities today.
Although there will be periodic short-term recoveries in the yen of from 3% to 5%, the basic trend is set.
On top of these very basic services, one can easily imagine may value added services that can be provided (long term storage, archival, monetization, cross-referencing with other users, etc).
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He said no long term reform of the system could get off the ground, without an increase in the basic state pension.
In some ways, the times cry out for more active government: for stronger regulation of banks and near-banks, for much more short-term government spending to counteract the contraction elsewhere in the economy, and for the establishment of a basic health-care system for everyone.
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