"It can be a real positive if you play the way we played, " coach Tom Coughlin said.
Ms. LIDLE: I think she's being real positive, but she's not being realistic.
The real positive though is that Samsung is now focused on software.
"This is a real positive for the entire marketplace, and hopefully this is the first sign that credit markets will open up, " says Jack McCabe, an independent housing analyst in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
Receiving awards has made a real and positive contribution to the lives of those we support.
"He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music, he can live forever, " Jean said.
The real false positive rate for this test is not known yet.
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But push they eventually did, and by the 1980s yields were high, real rates positive and the scene set for the subsequent bull market.
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Shan Nicholas from the Princess Royal Trust for Carers said the government and local authorities now needed to ensure the resources made "a real and positive difference to carers' lives".
Real estate had nominal negative returns in two of the three periods, and in one period it produced a positive real return.
Conversely, the most populous nations making up the E-7 have mostly positive real interest rates.
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Positive real rates in the 1980s and 1990s had bullion trading sideways for 20 years.
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None of the asset classes produced a positive real return in all of three of these periods .
Only Japan has a positive real interest rate among the G-7 and that rate is barely above zero.
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T-Bills, gold, foreign stocks and domestic stocks all produced a positive real return in two of the three periods.
With interest rates being held near zero, equities are the last bastion of positive real returns for scores of investors.
Treasuries also produced a positive real return in one of the periods.
Many developing economies also have positive real interest rates, meaning that you can earn a return on their bonds over and above the rate of inflation.
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While real rates in America and Britain are negative, deflation in Japan and Switzerland means their real rates are positive hence the recurring enthusiasm for their currencies.
This also exposes that even in the most extreme inflationary spikes, there are plenty of examples where our expectations for protection and positive real returns were not met.
In the years ahead, investors will be hard pressed to keep up with inflation in these assets, let alone achieve a positive real return or meet their financial goals.
The U.S. dollar looks further than ever from paying a positive real rate of interest, leaving both investors and merchants to price scarce resources in an ever-depreciating, ever-more generously supplied currency.
If you put your whole bond portfolio into the Vanguard index fund, which is mostly in U.S. governments, you have a fairly low risk of default but a fairly high risk of not achieving a positive real return.
If 7-10 year Treasuries produced positive returns in all three of these worst inflation spikes since 1972, and one of those was even a positive real return, is it really prudent to scare people into owning much riskier assets?
So while marketers rub their hands together gleefully, the real challenge is how to make positive social influence translate into real-life behaviour.
And many in China will see a 10% or more correction in Shanghai real estate as a positive.
Now savers have the freedom of the globe and there are plenty of countries where real interest rates are positive and growth prospects are more attractive than in the developed world.
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