We're supposed to be gaining 100, 000 to 150, 000 a month just to keep the unemployment rate level.
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It may be politically incorrect to say so out loud, but higher taxes on capital gains and dividends, the latter to the same rate level as earned income, would be particularly destructive.
However, as finance undergraduates know, its not just the current price level but the growth rate of the price level that matters.
While the German economy is growing at a healthy rate and exports year-to-date are at the strongest level in a decade, Spain is wrestling with an overheated property market and a 20% jobless rate, the highest level in nearly 13 years.
Irrelevant, Mr Elmendorf suggested on his own blog on March 23rd: the level of GDP matters more than its growth rate in determining the level of the deficit and on that front the CBO is more optimistic than the private sector.
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We know the exact rate at which seawater expands with temperature, and the expected increase in sea level calculated from the observed increase in temperature matches the observed rate of increase of sea level.
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Further, the unemployment rate correlates with level of education with the highest rates for the lowest education.
Obama had said his stimulus package would keep unemployment rate beneath that level, only to see it crest at 10% in October 2009.
Such an increase amounts to 0.16 inches per year, but the eventual impact could mean that a small storm could "do the same damage that Sandy did, " said Peter Howd, co-author of a 2012 U.S. Geological Survey report that found the rate of sea level rise had increased in the northeast.
The optimal level of investment is the rate that generates the highest sustainable level of consumption over time.
Louis Fed president James Bullard has been a proponent of varying the rate of asset purchases to reflect the level of accommodation, while in the past Bernanke has said the total size of their balance sheet, rather than its rate of change, determined the level of monetary easing.
Overall, America's violent-crime rate is at its lowest level in around 40 years, and its murder rate at its lowest in almost 50.
The default rate by principal amount stayed level at 5.9% at the end of April while the default rate by issuer count fell to 7.1% at the end April from at 7.2% at the end of March.
There was further evidence Friday that global economy is slowing, with Chinese and European manufacturing data coming in lower than expected and the eurozone unemployment rate rose to the highest level since the euro currency was created, with the 17-nation jobless rate at 11%.
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As a matter of comparison, the long-term average rate of consumer-level inflation is roughly 2.3 percent.
Nonetheless, Congress should slash the corporate tax rate to a permanent level resembling that in Phil English's plan.
The very long-term average rate of consumer-level inflation in the United States sits around 2.3 percent per year.
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"We already have a 90% A-level pass rate, and have had every year for the past three years, " she said.
Accordingly, it is infinitely important to Kansas to get its GDP growth rate up to the level of Texas or South Dakota.
The Labor Department's unemployment rate hit its lowest level in nearly three years last month and has improved for five months straight.
The more the economy weakens, the swifter the Bank of England is likely to be in lowering the base rate from its present level of 5.0%.
What price-earnings ratio to put on the market is more of a function of the going inflation rate and the confidence level of the recession's depth and duration.
At the current 3 percent CPI inflation rate, the average level of money prices would increase by 34 percent in a decade, and by 81 percent in 20 years.
In one instance a trader would regularly shout out to colleagues that he was trying to manipulate the rate to a particular level, to check whether they had any conflicting requests.
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Unemployment in the U.S., which is running at 8.1%, means there are people available to work when jobs open up and the rate is at a level that there is no wage pressure.
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With the unemployment rate at its lowest level since December 2008 and the economy adding more jobs than any major analyst estimated in February, it may strike some as odd that the White House chose to play down the number.
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He echoed the contributions made by members of all parties, which underlined the importance of amateur sporting clubs to local communities, and gave the UUP's Robin Swann an assurance that he had no plans to lower the current level of rate relief.
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