While Apple is well known for not disclosing what it is going to do this does seem to put to rest the company moving down the price point curve and not coming out with a lower quality, less feature rich smartphone.
S. The revenue-maximizing tax rate is not the ideal point on the Laffer Curve.
But that is just the point: the digital curve these days is shifting and steepening faster than ever.
The median is nothing more than a point on the bell curve.
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Libertarianism that puts political liberty first is conceptually undedicated to holding the line on this or that point on the Laffer curve.
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We should find that point on the Laffer Curve which generates the highest tax revenue and then cut taxes further by several magnitudes.
Most people believe that an inverted yield curve heralds a recession, and right now we have an inverted yield curve at the point where new money is supposed to enter the economy.
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Its bonds have two maturities with the shorter-dated issue yielding 0.15% maturing 2012 while its 4.375% issue matures 2031 and was priced at a 34 basis point premium to the AAA curve.
"Life kind of has a way of throwing you curve balls at any point of given time, " Chestnut says.
That concept isn't really compelling to the masses until one focuses on the "knee" of this exponential curve -- the point where the perpetual doubling of technological growth skyrockets and negates the linear models of progress that people like economists have relied on for so long.
Most students of economics are familiar with the Laffer curve, named by Dr. Art Laffer, which demonstrates how higher taxes do not necessarily mean a higher tax yield, with there being a point (the peak of his curve) after which total revenue falls when the tax rate increases.
Previously, employees were reviewed twice a year on a five-point scale, plotted on a distribution curve, which determined workers' bonuses.
Coal and gas are still way bigger than oil or nukes in our grid, but my point is really just that an exponential curve can catch up with a linear one in a surprising way. 14% doubling every few years means we could be only a decade away from 100% clean energy.
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The success of these efforts will depend on our ability to understand where we are on the Sigmoid Curve and to determine the ideal point of transformation.
My point is that the blogosphere expands the distribution curve.
The requirement, drawn up after Robert Maxwell robbed his companies' pensions funds in the early 1990s, attempts to assess the present value of pension funds' future liabilities, taking the yield curve on gilts as its reference point.
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They will prevent the two monetary cures from inflicting that bad old J-curve bleeding of the patient to the point of death.
There is therefore a curve and curves have at least one maximum point.
The Laffer Curve embodies a commonsense principle: there is a point at which raising taxes becomes counterproductive.
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At some point, the rinse-repeat methodology renders an idea or company behind the curve, and once that's recognized, it's likely too late to alter one's tactics.
Bolt proved that last year when he clocked 14.35 for 150m in Manchester in May, then was timed at "only" 14.44 to that point during his epic 200m in Berlin, having run the first 100m on a curve.
It says that if in this space any closed-curve object, such as a rubber band, can be shrunk to a point, then the space is topologically equivalent to a sphere.
Remember that interest rates rarely shift up in a parallel fashion, so the yield curve will probably flatten, with longer-maturity yields rising by less than one point.
Bears like Hoisington can point to a July article published by the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank arguing that the yield curve does a better job reading the tea leaves than professional forecasters.
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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Round a curve I scared the hell out of a flock of feral goats, and at one point, came over a rise to see the road just drop off into a slalom down to a mangrove-studded beach.
The curve shows how tax revenues rise as tax rates rise, but only up to a certain point.
The whole point of the QEs is for the Fed to expand its interest rate policy influence to the whole yield curve.
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Bernanke then went on to insist that the view (which he did not identify as that of the Phillips curve, after a New Zealand economist of that name, by the way) had no credibility in point of fact and operation at any time throughout its period of doctrinal hegemony.
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