In 2005, I had the opportunity to meet with Ben Bernanke and I asked why the Fed had elected to use the 10-year Treasury rate in their model.
The top 1 percent would pay a 39.5 percent rate under the old model, but only 38.9 percent under the new one.
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He agrees that, theoretically, concealed carry laws could increase the likelihood that potential victims could carry a gun, and thus reduce the homicide rate (my simple model above).
But it is attacking with a radical business model: inexpensive flat-rate wireless data for any device (it plans to add voice service soon).
Before Rosenthal took control of the company Ning was at low end of the generally accepted 5% to 10% conversion rate needed to support a freemium business model.
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Their model finds that the optimal tax rate on inheritance could be 50-60% or more.
The 70% renewal rate led people to believe that the membership model was much healthier than in reality.
At any rate, Activision is intriguing for its business model, which is a bit different from other game developers.
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Bears for Rackspace cite the sustainability of aforementioned growth rate, the capital intensity of the business model and the sizable competition in the space.
The traditional legal billing model is based on the hourly rate.
Their lobbyists succeeded in convincing legislators that, as opposed to ratings agencies who have the same business model and independence conflicts and only rate bonds versus give an opinion on the financial statements as a whole, no one could think of anything auditors had done wrong that needed reforming.
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This model has been growing at a rapid rate of 20 percent in the last three reported quarters from Nike.
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You may need to use a machine learning model to help you understand how the churn rate relates to various other indicators.
Sageworks collects financial statements for private companies from accounting firms, banks and credit unions through its cooperative data model, aggregating the data at an approximate rate of 1, 000 statements a day, and analyzing the performance.
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If Wal-Mart's growth rate falls, while that of others increases, its economic model may destabilize and become vulnerable to attack.
When the Joint Committee on Taxation looks at raising the capital gains tax rate or taxing dividends as ordinary income they use a simplistic model.
Prosper.com employs an eBay or auction-style model and lets potential lenders both determine the interest rate and who gets funded in a several-week bidding process.
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The problem is that the economic model that achieved the strongest and most consistent growth rate in reliably recorded history - a spending spree by consumers financed by borrowing from the great producing countries like China, Japan and Germany - is kaput.
Power data, one Ford computer model concluded that Explorer customers respond better to cut-rate loans.
Lower-priced tablet model adoption in emerging markets is boosting the overall growth rate.
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It paid off: 85% of them visited showrooms to see the new model, compared with a 1-2% response rate typical for normal advertising.
They were chosen because they have a fully developed economic model with a demonstrated ability to estimate the effects of rate cuts in promoting jobs and economic growth.
He is creating computer simulations to model the liver, so optimum channel size, flow rate and density of cells can be calculated as accurately as possible, before the artificial liver is constructed in the laboratory.
Hopefully the infrastructure will have grown by then as well -- Tesla's already working on DC "superchargers" compatible with the Model S and capable of recharging its batteries at a rate of 300 miles of range per hour of charge.
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At this point, supporters of the model might well point to Germany, where the youth unemployment rate is a mere 7.8% and overall joblessness is at its lowest level for decades.
Lately, his Lean LaunchPad course at Stanford has been the model for an intriguing pilot programme called Innovation Corps (or I-Corps for short) which seeks to turn the traditional Silicon Valley start-up model on its head, and thereby reduce the woeful failure rate of new ventures.
The Fed's basic model suggests that about 14% of the impact of any interest-rate change on the economy is transmitted via housing markets.
The traditional economic model in Asia is based on massive domestic savings rates and an even greater investment rate--30% to 40% of GDP.
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