An economy growing at a real rate of 5% can service this amount of debt.
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During that period, the U.S. grew at an average real rate of just under 4% (3.87%).
Ms Rousseff has indicated that she wants the real rate down to 2% in 2014.
That is equivalent to the average real rate of growth for the U.S. economy since 1925.
With CPI inflation of 3 percent in 2011, the real rate on those assets is negative.
Those born right after World War II will earn, on average, a 2.4% real rate of return.
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T-bills yield a negative real rate of return now and 10-year Treasuries yielding 4% don't light my fire.
Our fifth indicator is the real rate of interest, which is negative in over half of the economies.
Reporting a higher reading than the real rate could have inflated trading profits artificially, misleading investors and regulators.
Therefore, subtracting rising rates of inflation from falling nominal interest rates results in a falling real rate of interest.
In this negative real rate environment, a new Nifty Fifty group may emerge.
Over the 220 years between 1790 and 2010, the U.S. economy grew at an average real rate of 3.74%.
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For instance, if Treasury bonds yield 2% a year, but inflation is 3%, then the real rate is negative 1%.
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For homebuyers, the best measure of the real rate is the gap between the average mortgage rate and annual wage growth.
Put your spare capital in a money market fund and you lose 3% per annum adjusted for the real rate of inflation.
Commodities, such as oil, agricultural resources, and precious metals, like gold and silver, will all be big winners in this negative real rate environment.
Then, the Fed, if it is to get control of the situation, will have to put rates up above the real rate of inflation.
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Economists say the real rate would be much higher if the government included all those who have given up trying to find a job.
Despite ongoing challenges, the world economy grew at an annual real rate of 3.9% in 2010, but developing economies were the real engines of expansion.
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Question: Corporate tax rates in America are said to be high relative to the world at 35%, though the real rate is very competitive at around 13%.
During the above mentioned period, full-time equivalent weighted average tuition increased by an annual real rate of 3.3 percent, outpacing the growth in student aid over the period.
Typical home-buyers will also find that, for any given real rate of interest, it makes sense to borrow more when inflation is low than when inflation is high.
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If the British government can raise finance at a nominal rate of 2%, and a real rate of zero, surely it makes sense for it to finance these projects directly?
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.
This came about because South Dakota grew at an average annual real rate of 3.81% over the period, and Texas grew at 2.99%, while the GDP growth rate for Kansas was only 1.97%.
Anyone with a copy of Microsoft Excel can quickly work out that the average real rate of economic growth overwhelms every other issue, even if all you care about is federal government finances.
If a very bad event is expected every 100 years, instead of, say, every 133 years, he calculates that the real rate of return on 'safe' bonds could fall from 3.7 per cent to 2.3%.
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