Yet during the same year, the Vanguard Long-Term U.S. Treasury Fund was up 22%.
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Furthermore, the cash grant program did support more than 50, 000 short-term jobs during the height of the recession and nearly 4, 000 long-term, permanent jobs, according to conservative estimates.
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Math scores on the NAEP long term trend were stagnant during the same period.
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It was just as wrong to invest money for your short term goals into the stock market during the bull run of the 1990s as it is to put long term money into CDs today.
During the past few months, yields on long term muni paper went through the roof, from 4.75% to 6.5%.
For many observers, the real story for Windows 8 was never going to be the 60 million licenses sold during the holiday rush -- it was always about the long term.
During the rest of the year Spain must raise 26bn euros in long-term debt.
Pelican Hill, which opened during the depths of the economic downturn in 2008, actively courts long-term guests as a way to fill its two-bedroom villas.
Total deposits rose 12% during the year, enabling Santander to repay 24bn euros of the long-term emergency loans it - along with most other banks in the eurozone - received from the European Central Bank last year.
The rainfall during June-September will likely be 98% of the long-term average, Mr. Reddy told reporters.
The Nasdaq Composite dipped by 2.9% during the week, but the Dow Jones was buffered by an optimistic long-term outlook from General Electric.
Some investors are willing to sacrifice initial returns for the promise of greater yields, a long-term view unlikely to have prevailed during the height of the financial crisis.
Mr Bianco says this is the only time that long-term interest rates have risen during a period in which the Fed has cut rates either five times, or by a total of 250 basis points.
Digital Realty continued its acquisition spree during the quarter as part of its long-term investment objectives, which focus on investing in institutional-quality data center facilities in high-barrier-to-entry markets that have significant potential to generate attractive risk-adjusted ROI.
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Debt in advanced economies has reached levels exceeded only during the second world war, and the evidence is that high debt can stifle long-term growth.
But the long-term nature of the insurance funding has protected Mr Buffett during periods (such as the late 1990s) when Berkshire shares have underperformed the market.
Ten years after the explosion, a CNN team visited Chernobyl to ascertain the long-term effects of radiation exposure for those living near Chernobyl during the accident, for cleanup workers or "liquidators, " or for those who continued to live in areas that were classified as polluted.
That is a larger premium even than during the financial crisis caused by the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management in the autumn of 1998.
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"It really makes a difference what your background is, " says Till Marco von Wachter, a Columbia University economist who has studied the long-term effect of graduating during a recession.
During the next decade, the Fed returned to Keynesian discretionary monetary policy, trying to steer the real economy to long term growth by manipulating interest rates, loosening when the economy seemed to turn down, tightening when this seemed to go too far and inflation started to rise.
So some time during the next Parliament Mr Blair may have to choose between keeping down public spending and taxes, and helping the long-term unemployed.
Massey Energy has marched more than 97% higher during the past year, gaining ground along the support of its 10-month moving average after breaking above this long-term trendline in May 2009.
Nama took control of the bad property debt from Irish banks during the height of the financial crisis, and it is tasked with maximising the return to the Irish taxpayer over the long term.
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Just such an aerosol effect is believed to have disrupted the Earth's thermal balance during the Laki event, cooling some Northern Hemisphere regions by as much as 1 or more degrees Celsius below the long-term average.
Giving away a big chunk of the upside in stocks during these rallies will damage your long-term return.
Given that our economy grew at 3.87% during the Bretton Woods period, America should target for a long-term GDP growth rate of no less than 3.5%.
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He looks for contrarian stocks, invests for the long term and tries to put money to work during choppy periods in the markets.
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But it said potential risks included public health hazards and environmental damage, disruption during construction, long term use of land, and an impact on the community from changes to the environment, property values and tourism.
In the long term, central banks' willingness to broaden liquidity support during crises may induce banks to behave more riskily (a temptation that will need to be countered with more effective rules on banks' own liquidity).
Patients would come in for weekly visits during which they got the drug, in the belief that there would be a long-term benefit.
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