Low and falling short-term rates have been a bonanza for banks for another reason, too.
Gold generally appreciates relative to a currency that has relatively low or falling interest rates.
Low or falling nominal interest rates and inflation were crucial to reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio.
In contrast, the transaction costs of getting your content on the Internet are low and falling all the time.
But with inflation relatively low and falling, caution may now be more about ensuring that there is not a depression.
Personal saving is low and falling, as consumers spend their stockmarket gains.
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With the chances of wringing more money out of Congress for troubled banks low and falling, the new plan could hit a funding wall.
Companies with low or falling governance standards are generally viewed as riskier stocks, outperforming when the market is rising and underperforming during periods of downturns.
With unemployment at a 30-year low, falling union membership and an ageing domestic workforce, the Rudd government can afford to be bold about using immigration as a tool of economic management.
In notable economic news this week, the Labor Department announced that the number of Americans filing initial jobless claims fell to a nearly four-year low, falling 50, 000 to a seasonally adjusted 352, 000.
But when it comes to considering the balance to be struck, we need to remember that recent price cuts have contributed billions to NHS savings, and in comparison to other countries where new medicines are often more readily available to patients, UK prices are low, total spend is low, and the cost per prescription is low and falling.
His comments come as ground water levels are reported to be low and still falling, despite an increase in reservoir depths.
On the one hand, the OBR admits that its gloomy prognosis of low economic growth and falling living standards in Britain may not be gloomy enough - because that forecast is predicated on an orderly resolution of the eurozone's debt crisis.
Also, Arena shares have gotten pretty rich, more than doubling in the past three years. (The past 12 months have been a roller coaster ride, with shares rising as high as 20 and falling as low as nine.) Investors should continue to view it with cautious optimism.
Kuranyi, 28, has not played for Germany since falling out with Low in 2008.
The rupee is losing value against the dollar, falling to record low levels in June.
With overnight temperatures falling to as low as -3C, ice is likely to be a problem well into Tuesday.
CDs and DVDs take up a lot of space, the turnover is low, the margin is low and the sales are falling.
And a gasoline tax would be regressive, falling disproportionately on low-income people, many of whom rely on their cars to get to work.
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.
Summerhays also reached as low as 7 under before falling back with a bogey on No. 9, but it was Horschel who separated himself with his late flurry.
We disagree and expect growth to remain relatively strong due to plentiful liquidity, the impact of low real interest rates, falling unemployment, and the high actual level of household savings.
After falling to a low of 30% in 2001-02, the debt ratio has risen, but the Treasury thinks it will stay below the 40% limit over the next five years.
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The Labor Department said that the industry had created 296, 000 jobs since falling to a low in January 2011, but added that the current level of employment was still some two million below its previous peak in April 2006.
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Ms Barker was investigating why the supply of new houses had responded so sluggishly to the house-price boom, with completions actually falling to a low of about 175, 000 in 2001, although they have since staged a recovery (see chart).
With inflation so low, a brief period of falling prices still cannot be ruled out.
The plan would not fit with the picture of falling house prices and low demand, it added.
We note the sharp contrast with 2001, when a shortage of dollar liquidity (strong and strengthening dollar, high real interest rates, low central bank dollar reserves, falling gold and commodity prices, rapidly shrinking U.S. profits) all spelled weakness.
"Despite the easing in the rate of decline, the region still looks set for further contraction in the early months of 2013, as weak consumer demand in many countries combines with low levels of business confidence and falling global trade", said Chris Williamson, Markit's chief economist.
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