Third, there is an exchange-rate effect: a rise in interest rates pushes up the currency and so squeezes exports.
They further suggest that the negative growth rate effect of high debt may start from levels of around 70-80% of GDP.
Why not put that 5.25% rate into effect again for the next two years?
You may only be realizing it now, but the 15% capital gain rate in effect through December 31, 2010 has never been lower.
You would think that the zero to 0.25% federal funds rate in effect since December 16, 2008 would have helped, but it has not.
The number of new entrants to the labour force outpaces the number of jobs created each year, and the disparity will continue for some time before the decline in the birth rate takes effect.
Likewise, in Indiana, the economy boomed after a flat rate went into effect in 2003.
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That rate remains in effect until the next inflation adjustment takes effect.
By contrast, at this point after the Reagan tax rate reductions took effect, employment had increase by an equivalent of more than 11 million.
In this tinker-toy model, you might expect the late Fall and Winter to be the time with the lowest shadow rate and in effect the easiest monetary policy.
This action targets those people that have been using credit cards as a way to purchase at the official rate rather than the black market rate, in effect creating a dual credit card exchange regime.
The Institute for Employment Research, based in Nuremberg, reckons that migration into Germany will add an extra 1.5 percentage points to the country's growth rate by 2020, with little or no effect on the rate of unemployment.
The exemption and rate would be in effect for two years.
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On a constant-exchange-rate basis excluding the effect of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S. dollars, worldwide net sales rose 6 percent and same store sales increased 4 percent.
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Long-term, daily use of inhaled corticosteroids may slightly slow their annual growth rate, a side effect that's thought to be reversible when children stop taking the drug.
The 40% tax rate that Congress agreed to is a compromise between the 45% rate that President Obama was seeking and the 35% rate that was in effect for 2011 and 2012.
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When this law went into effect, the rate of unpaid violations immediately dropped by 90%.
He said he thought it defeated the aim of increasing tax revenue to fill the gap due when a zero rate of company tax takes effect.
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Another reason to suspect that the Fed is more than a bit player is that American interest-rate decisions have a disproportionate effect on global monetary conditions.
Sebelius also urged the Governors to examine whether or not they have the tools and authority they need to approve all rate increases before they take effect.
These are in effect hidden marginal rate increases.
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At the lower rates, upper income earners did invest and otherwise work to earn more, which of course is exactly the desired effect of the rate cuts, and so paid higher taxes on the resulting incomes.
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R. 8 raised all of the taxes that negatively impact economic growth (the top rates on ordinary income, dividends, capital gains, and inheritances), while capping those that have little or no effect on the rate of GDP expansion.
On a constant-exchange-rate basis that excludes the effect of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S. dollars, worldwide net sales rose 5 percent, for the period ended Jan. 31, due to growth in all regions and comparable store sales equaled the prior year.
Paradoxically the halo effect of early interest rate convergence allowed a greater divergence in fiscal policies.
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Running the vacuum cleaner around upstairs was having a far less calamitous effect on her heart rate.
Tax rate increases have just the opposite effect on every dollar and economic decision throughout the economy and the world.
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Capital gains also aren't indexed for inflation, so a lower rate is intended to offset the effect of inflated gains.
At the moment, it doesn't appear that the dollar-yuan exchange rate is having an enormously harmful effect on the broad U.S. economy.
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