Curve after curve of hills unfold along the river, lined with terraces carved out from the slatey soil.
There have been many recent recommendations to extend out along the yield curve given the municipal yield curve is approaching historic highs (401 bps 1-30yrs ).
The Laffer Curve really is a curve, it has a maximum rate of taxation at which lower tax rates produce less revenue and so do higher tax rates.
As of now, select BB owners -- Pearl 8120, Pearl Flip 8220, Curve 8320, 8820, Curve 8900 and Bold 9000, officially -- can point their browsers here in order to get the OTA install going.
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Google is, essentially, pursuing the exponentially advancing technology curve while car makers are betting on the incremental curve.
Named after my Cato colleague Richard Rahn and explained in the video below, the Rahn Curve is sort of a spending version of the Laffer Curve.
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So, and different piece of hardware priced differently in different markets for us so, but the 8800 is a little more expensive in the Curve but its delightful to see the carriers pricing the Curve so aggressively because, my experience is when they do this it should actually takes two or three months for the momentum to really sort of kick in the gear.
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"I had to return this product because it is only for bananas that curve to the right and I can only find bananas that curve to the left, " a one-star reviewer complained.
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If you consider that every possible transaction in the economy is arbitraged against the Treasury yield curve, it is clear that paying banks above the Treasury yield curve to hold reserves will depress both total demand and bank lending.
Most people believe that an inverted yield curve heralds a recession, and right now we have an inverted yield curve at the point where new money is supposed to enter the economy.
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But we have the steepest yield curve that we've had in the last 40 years, and yield curve steepness is an overly simple sense a predictor of future bank system eagerness to lend.
On the smelting side, about 45% of all smelters in China are in the top of the cost curve, and 78% of refineries are on the top half of the cost curve.
But the biggest tribute I can pay to my Curve is that even after Apple sent me an iPhone to test, I still liked the Curve more.
While the yield curve may sound like a wonkish concept reserved only for professional bond traders, retail investors can now profit from flattening and steepening in the curve, too.
And once we educate everybody about the Laffer Curve, we can then concentrate on teaching them about the equivalent relationship on the spending side of the fiscal ledger, the Rahn Curve.
But the biggest tribute I can pay to my Curve is that even after Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) sent me an iPhone to test, I still liked the Curve more.
When we ran that Curve 8900 review a couple weeks back, we were taken aback by the number of people writing in to ask what kind of phone was pictured to the right of the Curve in our lead-off image.
Extending the curve of Route 75 through the hills, they gently bent the bridge on a 12-mile radius, creating a smooth, shallow curve that gives motorists at either end a view of all the masts at the same time.
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Most students of economics are familiar with the Laffer curve, named by Dr. Art Laffer, which demonstrates how higher taxes do not necessarily mean a higher tax yield, with there being a point (the peak of his curve) after which total revenue falls when the tax rate increases.
But the Federal Reserve had already started raising short-term interest rates, flattening the yield curve, the difference between short and long rates. (Since banks borrow short and lend long, their margins are higher when the curve is steep.) When this began eating into lenders' profits, they reacted by pushing subprime rates back up.
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We have a lot of hope that those things can bend the cost curve.
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In the real world, there are no grading curve and there are no letter grades.
If SHY is rising and TLT is falling in value, the yield curve is steepening.
Perhaps, Wolf suggests, the two tails of the alleged bell curve are fatter than we thought.
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Bringing that ratio in line with peers would flatten the cost curve for decades.
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With the yield curve as steep as ever, this bank's gross profit on lending will expand.
Jessica Biel was recently photographed with a unique orange cover on her BlackBerry Curve.
Eva Longoria nabbed a BlackBerry Curve at Research in Motion 's launch party last June.
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