That would make the yield curve steepen, which normally suggests a growing economy.
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The pair was returning from a friend's house when the father failed to make a steep curve on the road, the girl told police.
The key to sustaining a healthy life, a healthy business or a healthy region is to make a transformation to a new curve before the current one is too far in decline.
As banks make these loans that they're making now at this steep yield curve, they'll become more and more eager to make more loans, which will then ripple out through the world and will have an expansive world that's exactly the reverse of the function that got us here.
One could argue that a flat yield curve will force banks to make more and riskier loans.
This is also the point in time where there is no longer an opportunity to make money from rolling down the yield curve.
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We are more likely to make this transformational change when the initial curve is still on the rise, since resources, energy and confidence are high.
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By keeping the yield curve flat, QE2 pressures banks to make more higher-return loans as investing in treasuries and short-term facilities provides a lower and lower profit margin.
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An employee at Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, one of Japan's oldest shipbuilders, he is responsible for bending a precise curve into the giant steel plates that make up the hulls of seagoing ships.
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In others it may be because central banks have rigged the yield curve, holding short-term rates artificially low and inducing banks to make money by buying longer-dated government bonds.
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If Boeing wants to hit its profitability target, and begin to make low single-digit margins by 2015, it will have to double its learning curve compared to production on the 777.
The IFS then goes on to make rough estimates of the distributional impact of all the cuts and shows an ever stepper regressive curve.
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