What the Federal Reserve does is loan money to banks at a given rate, zero percent at the moment.
For a given rate of inflation, a loan at 12% interest is a lot heavier than a loan at 2%.
In the long run, theory suggests that higher growth, other things equal, should mean higher interest rates for a given rate of inflation.
Which some would say is courageous, given the rate at which the industry is growing.
But given the rate at which Pandora has been expected to grow, those numbers are troubling indeed.
The share buyback expansion seems unlikely to shrink the current cash balance at all given the rate of cash generation.
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The World Bank warned recently that temperatures might rise by a catastrophic 4C (7F) above pre-industrial levels, given the rate of political progress.
Typical home-buyers will also find that, for any given real rate of interest, it makes sense to borrow more when inflation is low than when inflation is high.
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The consultants also advise trustees on strategic issues, such as making sure their fund's overall approach is appropriate given the rate at which it will need to pay retirement benefits in future years.
That is, the very thought that the current Chancellor thinks that current market long term interest rates are lower than they should be given future rate rise risks has changed current market long term interest rates so they are no longer as low as they were.
Apparently when David Cameron had one of his regular meetings with business leaders on Friday, he told the assembled corporate eminences that they had a moral duty to ensure their companies paid the full corporation tax rate, given that the government has been cutting that rate and continues to do so.
The way wholesale electricity prices work, all producers get the same rate for power at any given time, and that rate is set by the most expensive power source on line at the time.
Beginning tomorrow, certified midwives will receive 100% of the payment rate given to physicians for performing the same services.
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Given the death rate of failing languages, Queens may be the only place where some of those languages are still in use.
Pinterest recently registered 8X growth in Latin America, not surprising given the huge rate of adoption of social media tools among Latinos.
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Google, trading at just 11x FY earnings (excluding cash) is also attractive, given its growth rate and relative to the overall market, like Apple.
And we've got a problem in this country, which is we have a shortage of nurses -- makes no sense, given this unemployment rate.
"We believe gross margin will continue to fall at a similar rate given the higher price of scrap silicon which we have confirmed in our recent trip to China, " Pichel said.
In fact, given the rapid rate of change impacting every aspect of our industry, there never has been a better time for marketers to build strong, collaborative relationships with academic institutions.
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Given the low rate of literacy in the country, estimated at only 56.6 per cent in 2011 according to the Nepal Living Standards Survey, radio is the No. 1 source of information for Nepalese.
The study found the wireless network could measure breathing within 0.4 to 0.2 breaths per minute, an insignificant error rate given that most breathing monitors round to the nearest breath per minute, he says.
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But this might only partially mitigate the downside described above, given the high rate of return that State Street has previously seen in some of its alternative investments (including private equity and hedge fund investments).
The ICC has the power to ban captains for slow over rates and Ponting ran the risk of receiving a one-Test suspension had he stuck with his pace bowlers, given the slow rate they were managing.
So a less exciting but potentially more potent idea is to increase one's savings rate given the possibility highlighted by my BAM Alliance colleague Larry Swedroe that lower returns across all asset classes may be in store.
Given the unemployment rate, which has continued to fall not because of a robust jobs recovery, but rather because each month more people leave the workforce, and tepid disposable income it makes sense that consumers have become big time price shoppers.
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"This is now going to prompt talk again of an ECB rate cut, given that Bundesbank head, Jens Weidmann, conceded recently that a rate cut would be considered if we see further worsening in the economic data, " said Craig Erlam, market analyst at Alpari.
The rise in China's relative costs has been even greater given its higher inflation rate.
Given the high current rate of non-participation, the number of non-covered retirees is certain to grow much larger.
But they are forging ahead pretty well, given the higher interest rate environment.
Imports sold 3.65 M in Feb, given a total sales rate of 14.50M.
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