It starts with a financial plan and is driven by your family index rate of return.
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The Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation was 4.5% in May, and the Retail Prices Index rate was 5.2%.
Commenting on Mr. Alan Greenspan's crafting of U.S. monetary policy, a recent magazine article warned against the obsessive drive to achieve some arbitrary consumer price index rate, and compared it to Captain Ahab's fatal pursuit of Moby Dick.
To compute real debt growth, we subtract the annual rate of change of the Consumer Price Index from the rate of change of gross total debt.
The entrepreneurship rate in the Kauffman Index and the unemployment rate run in opposite directions because of the countervailing forces underlying entrepreneurial activity.
The recent action was to extend their maturity (to February 1, 2013) and lower the rate from the U.S. dollar OIS (overnight index swap) rate plus one percent to plus one-half percent.
For the past year, the swap facility has been priced at a prohibitively expensive 1% over the rate for overnight index swaps, the benchmark interbank rate, in order to discourage moral hazard.
The trade-weighted exchange rate index for the euro dropped from 114 in December 2008 to 96 in August 2012, a fall of 16%.
Measured by consumer price index, the rate was 35.8% in 1998, falling to a low of 12.5% in 2001 and rising to 31.1% in 2003.
The output index grew at the fastest rate since March, but the prices index was at its lowest for over a year.
These central banks have agreed to lower the pricing on the existing temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangements by 50 basis points so that the new rate will be the U.S. dollar overnight index swap (OIS) rate plus 50 basis points.
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Finally, apart from these long-term demographic trends, the 2012 Kauffman Index data show the rate of business creation falling from 2011, returning for the first time to pre-recessionary levels.
The latest inflation figures showed that rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation in the UK fell slightly to 5% during October, down from a rate of 5.2% the month before.
The core index increased at its fastest rate since summer in 2008.
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We have had small increases each week since October 15, and the annualized growth rate of the index is now only -3.1%, having increased for 12 weeks.
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Changes to the way the Consumer Price Index -- the inflation rate -- is calculated are by far the most politically palatable of the options available to Congress and the president.
The index is measured from a base rate of 100 when it was first recorded in 1996.
The index benefitted also from the interest rate spread and rising housing permits.
The rule suggests trouble: the index has fallen at an annual rate of more than 2% in the past six months.
The rate of Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation rose slightly from 3.0% in November to 3.1% last month, according to the Office for National Statistics.
In particular, conservatives would argue that the official Consumer Price Index was over-stating the rate of inflation, thereby under-stating the rate at which things were improving.
The ISM said the index was consistent with an annual rate of economic growth 3.3 percent from January through March, up from a tepid 0.4 percent growth rate the last three months of 2012.
The rate of return on American index-linked government securities (also a real return) is roughly 4%.
Because valuations were rising at a faster rate than actual earnings, index funds became skewed toward the largest companies.
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Our index suggests that a fair-value rate would be 3.54 yuan to the dollar, compared with the current rate of 6.78.
Now take a look at the chart, which plots a foreign exchange rate along with a price index for the global stock market.
If we look back to 2000, the year of our first Mothers' Index, Rwanda had a very high rate of female representation in government.
Goldman Sachs's calculations suggest that, to reduce growth from 4% to 3%, (an optimistic estimate of America's new sustainable growth rate) the financial conditions index would need to increase by 1.25 percentage points.
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