With the proper combination of rate reductions and eliminated deductions, the AMT would no longer have a purpose, and could mercifully reach its end.
The earnings rate for Series I Savings Bonds is a combination of a fixed rate, which applies for the life of the bond, and the semiannual inflation rate.
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By contrast, a sustained period of 4% growth would do far more to narrow the deficit and shrink the federal government as a share of GDP than any combination of tax rate increases and spending cuts being proposed by either party.
The combination of work-rate and basic technique make Sorin indispensable to Argentina's World Cup quest.
And as the President promised, millionaires and billionaires will also begin doing more to help pay down the deficit through a combination of permanent tax rate increases and reduced tax benefits.
If the combination of all these rate increases results in renewed recession, as I and many others believe will happen, the result will be lower rather than higher federal revenues overall.
Messrs Feldstein and Samwick also assume that retired folk will convert their personal retirement accounts into a variable-rate annuity, based on a combination of stocks and bonds, rather than a fixed-rate annuity.
What brought Argentina down was the combination of its fixed exchange rate, which made its currency uncompetitive, with persistent fiscal deficits.
Dr. KARL CASE (Wellesley College): What really determines the long-term mortgage rate is some combination of inflationary expectations, international demand, the value of the dollar.
The middle class has been badly hit: perhaps 100, 000 people have lost their homes because of a combination of earlier interest-rate rises and falling property prices.
The lower jobless rate was a combination of several factors, but a significant portion of the dip came from 130, 000 workers who dropped out of the labor force.
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The partnership passed 50 before Malinga and Muralitharan began to turn the screw, the seam-spin combination slowing the run-rate before Muralitharan coaxed Porterfield (31) into edging behind with an attempted cut.
The economic consequence will be either higher unemployment, a further decline in the labor force participation rate, or a combination of the two.
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Moreover, if the combination of all of these tax rate increases throws the economy back into recession, as many argue is quite likely, then the overall result will be lower rather than higher federal revenues.
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The impact on savers is always a partial offset to the benefit to borrowers of a low interest rate policy, but this combination has gone on too long.
The current stampede of industrial and emerging countries alike toward floating-cum-inflation targeting, and away from exchange-rate and monetary anchors, suggests that this combination is the only real alternative to giving up a national currency in favour of monetary union or dollarisation.
This is not to say that China, itself, is entering a recession, but a slower growth rate there (2nd largest economy) in combination with growth issues in the US (largest economy), Japan (3rd largest), and a significant recession in Europe bodes ill for worldwide growth and will eventually play out in the equity markets.
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The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.
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The only way to achieve a major shift in the balance of funding is to supplement a reformed council tax with either a re-localised business rate or a local income tax - or a combination of both.
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"Following a combination of an underlying increase in network traffic as well as a high rate of new customer additions, we are aware of capacity issues in a small number of exchanges, " she said.
This came after Christine Lagarde had backed "the policy mix" ie the combination of government tax and spending policies and the Bank of England's interest rate and quantitative easing policies.
There are lots of different ways to rate cities, but this matrix is designed to capture the cities with the best combination of low unemployment, high wages, and high expected job growth.
Last year, thanks to a combination of injuries, inconsistent play and individual errors, the team let up goals at an alarming rate.
That combination makes Xiaomi a brand to watch, as while it is not shipping handsets at the same rate other locals like Lenovo, Huawei and ZTE have achieved, the research suggests its social media presence means it has captured the Chinese zeitgeist.
On the one hand, a combination earnings growth and liquid capital markets will depress default activity across the general leveraged loan population, keeping the rate inside the historical average of 3.4%.
However, a triple therapy combination of a diuretic with an ACE inhibitor or ARB and an NSAID was associated with a 31% higher rate of kidney injury, particularly elevated in the first 30 days of treatment during which it was 82% higher.
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The elderly, many of whom get by on a combination of Social Security and investment income, are suffering more than any other group from our current low-interest rate fiscal environment.
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