The firm noted the rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage during the period matched its all-time low, making it the fifth straight week the rate has averaged below 4%.
Flintoff then headed for South Africa, but made an unimpressive start to his IPL career, taking only two wickets in three matches at a cost of 105 runs - an economy rate of 9.54 - and making 62 runs, with a highest score of 24.
Mr Osborne said pension, education and welfare reform was helping to make the UK a more competitive economy, while cuts to corporation tax and higher-rate tax were making the country a more attractive place to do business.
But anticipating more recent work, Mr Phelps, the theory's other pioneer, has long emphasised the need for measures to lower the natural rate--essentially, by making more people employable at the prevailing level of wages.
Series I bonds consist of two components: a fixed interest rate return and an adjustable inflation-linked return, making them somewhat similar to TIPS. The fixed rate never changes, but the inflation return rate is adjusted every six months and can also be negative (which of course brings your total return down).
In 2007, 143 sheriffs and patrol officers died on the job--a rate of 21.4 per 100, 000 workers--making police work the 10th most dangerous job in America.
Some grew out of other operations: Rogue, from Oregon, makes gin, rum and whiskey, but is better known for its line of craft beers, just as Anchor, a San Francisco brewery, began making a first-rate Junipero gin and Old Potrero rye only after a century of brewing beer.
The 50% top income-tax rate creates further problems, by making it harder for entrepreneurs to recruit and retain the best people.
In December, the European Central Bank finally succumbed to pressure and launched a program providing substantial additional liquidity to European banks by making unlimited, low interest-rate, three-year loans available to banks.
Liquid-fuel reactors, such as MSRs, also offer inherent safety advantages: because the fuel is liquid, it expands when heated, thus slowing the rate of nuclear reactions and making the reactor self-governing.
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The yields on such instruments were fairly low, making investors very sensitive to any exchange-rate changes.
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He said there was no case for making A-levels harder because the pass rate was so high.
The company has a billion-dollar revenue run-rate for this year, around what Facebook is thought to be making.
It is now 11.75%, the highest interest rate in the world, and making Brazil a haven for the carry-trade.
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Perry wants to steer individuals towards games that are guaranteed buys when and if tried, making the one-cent-per-minute flat rate Gaikai charges completely worthwhile.
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Falling cocoa prices threaten to hinder global supplies of the chocolate-making ingredient, with lower returns likely to accelerate the rate at which farmers switch to more profitable commodities.
Of course, this type of policymaking underscores the importance of making the default choice a good one (an adjustable-rate mortgage with no down payment would be an example of a bad default).
He said that according to the Department for Work and Pensions, 30% of those referred on the programme would find work "regardless of intervention" - but contractors only had to reach a 33% success rate to start making a profit.
Making the code less complicated and more efficient may not achieve the rate-cutting, base-broadening reform many want.
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Going a step further, why has nobody on the Street begun to pat themselves on the back for making a monster call (18 of 29 sell-side analysts rate Home Depot at a buy or overweight)?
Some 2 million adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs, are due to reset to higher rates this year, making monthly payments unaffordable for many.
He has been proposing his so-called Buffett Rule, which would increase the capital gains tax rate by 100%, making it the fourth highest in the industrialized world, to go with his world highest corporate rates.
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The balance of payments and exchange rates were making news, and the slow break-up of the Bretton Woods fixed-exchange rate system was under way.
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Although it is unfair for critics to lambast the Fund for making the same mistakes in Asia, Russia and Brazil (its advice on exchange-rate policy differed in Asia), there is clearly some explaining to be done.
The fact that people have used industrial chemistry to short-circuit the nitrogen cycle, by making fertilisers out of nitrogen in the air at a rate which greatly exceeds what natural systems can manage, has real environmental effects.
So we think on the upside, during the bubble, these testosterone levels were making the traders insensitive to risk-reward signals but also insensitive to price signals such as the rate of interest.
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While it remains to be seen at what rate a post-Obamacare Medicare system will reimburse DaVita for dialysis expenses, the fact remains that Americans seem intent on making themselves future dialysis patients at a rapid enough clip to at least partially offset any such decrease.
The Philippines, whose sovereign credit rating was upgraded to investment grade by two rating firms over the past two months, has been fighting the so-called hot-money inflows with several measures, including making it easier for locals to take money abroad and lowering a deposit rate for banks that do cross-border business.
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The Philippines, whose sovereign credit rating was upgraded to investment grade by two ratings firms over the past two months, has been fighting the so-called hot-money inflows with several measures, including making it easier for locals to take money abroad and lowering a deposit rate for banks that do cross-border business.
WSJ: Asian Governments Take Measures to Battle Strong Currencies
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