His K-rate of 10.0 per game is, on its own, the sixth-best such mark by a 24-year-old in major-league history.
Since K-rate is usually considered the single best predictor of how well a pitcher will age, from this angle the inevitable comparisons to past Mets greats like Dwight Gooden, Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver make sense.
If you divide individual rate by league rate, though, it comes out that he's striking out a third more hitters than average impressive, but no better than what Brett Myers did with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2005, and nothing close to what Gooden did at 19, when his K-rate was more than twice as high as the league's.
Another former U.K. rate-setter and arch-dove, David Blanchflower, has pointed out that even if nominal-GDP targeting was a good idea in theory, it is a bad idea in practice because nominal GDP is hard to measure and prone to large revisions.
Adam Posen, a former U.K. rate-setter with a reputation as a "dove" who consistently played down inflation concerns and favored greater central-bank stimulus, told Parliament last month that abandoning the inflation target would be a "grievous error" that would raise unnecessary concerns over the U.K.'s commitment to sound money.
U.S. regulators are widening their probe of global interest-rate-rigging by scrutinizing what they claim is a pivotal role of two U.K. brokerage firms in the scandal, people close to the investigation say.
The Hewitt study found that the participation rate--the percentage of employees eligible for 401(k)s who contributed to them--was unchanged from 2008 at 74%.
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Citing a study from Merrill Lynch, the CTIA chart says the average U.S. consumer pays 5 cents per minute for voice service--a rate cheaper than other advanced telecom markets, such as the U.K., Germany, South Korea and Japan.
The U.K. banking giant's chief executive, Robert Diamond, resigned as a result of an interest-rate manipulation scandal.
The U.K. 10-year bond yielded all of 1.68% in mid-August 2012, well below the rate of consumer price increases.
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