Smith is confident gold is a proxy for deflation and could be meaningfully higher.
And the best proxy for commodities is gold, and has been for 4, 000 years.
The skeptical counter-arguments are a near perfect proxy for skeptical global arguments as a whole.
Betting on container rates, which are a proxy for economic activity, may also appeal to speculators.
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So with RYMFX as our proxy for managed futures, how attractive has the performance been?
Public people are compelling, but they are also a proxy for our lives, or our dreams.
Bangladeshis and Pakistanis, the best proxy for Muslim voters, seem to have followed that pattern.
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By combining the data with traffic fatalities we feel our list offers a proxy for safety.
It's a proxy for Berkshire Hathaway, which hasn't escaped the market's knife, down 25%.
It quickly burned holes through the cold cuts, which are a good proxy for human tissue.
Once the school-board battle had become a proxy for city-government power games, the opportunists jumped in.
The NICS checks serve only as a rough proxy for sales, but can gauge broad sentiment.
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Business, in a humane world: Wealth is a proxy for value created, not merely for power gained.
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Environmentalists are openly using the project as a proxy for their general opposition to oil sands development.
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Mr Owen uses monthly data for productivity growth in manufacturing, a good proxy for the traded-goods sector.
Educational qualifications may be relatively easy to measure, but offer only a poor proxy for human capital.
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Foreigners have stayed away, says Sohn, because they view it as a proxy for the depresssed Korean economy.
The problem, of course, is that the public is still using institutional prestige as a proxy for educational quality.
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Using length as a proxy for quality is very much a value judgment.
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As a proxy for European stock markets, the VanGuard Europe ETF is down 16% from its top last November.
Benton looked at the number of tweets issuing from within the app, a proxy for the number of readers.
For IPOs, their pre-money valuation is used as a proxy for exit value.
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The third component uses disagreement among economic forecasters as a proxy for uncertainty.
Likewise, to see his case as a proxy for whether abortion in general is evil is likely to mischaracterize.
Unfortunately, earnings are still a bad proxy for the cashflow available to shareholders.
But as a proxy for this analysis just look at the economics.
Below is a chart for the Powershares Insured Municipal Bond Portfolio, a decent proxy for muni-bonds as a whole.
Although the billionaires are a proxy for societal wealth, we must always stress that we are acknowledging, not celebrating them.
If, that is, the fight over the mandate isn't really a proxy for a fight over the Affordable Care Act.
Malaysia, as the closest state proxy for the rebels, just hosted emissaries from Bangkok to get those two sides talking.
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