Other aspects of climate change and land subsidence significantly exacerbate this effect though the relative importance of these factors varies from location.
There are limits to monetary policy: the Fed does not have the knowledge to bring about full employment, which requires flexible relative prices for all factors of production.
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"We now need to know more about how early life conditions can influence the pattern of telomere loss and the relative importance of inherited and environmental factors, " she said.
However, in the past year, as other foreign currencies have weakened in relation to the U.S. dollar, the price of gold has pulled due to the relative weakening in conjunction with other market factors.
Powerful structural factors will continue to reinforce the relative strength of the emerging world.
The price of any single stock in isolation is affected by its current and projected earnings, the degree of reliability of those projections, its balance sheet, its dividend or prospect of a dividend, the relative attractiveness of alternative investments and many more factors.
But regulation is only one of a number of factors companies take into account when assessing the relative attractions of countries for business.
Other factors have determined interest rates, including the relative appeal of other investments, and the flexibility of borrowers to get out of a fiscal mess.
It is generally accepted that trade with poor countries has been one of the factors reducing the wages of unskilled workers, relative to skilled ones, in the United States.
The answer depends on several factors: where the money came from, the amount relative to your current savings and how it was invested before you received it.
But factors such as deep manufacturing recession have been blamed for the relative weakness of the Scottish economy.
Both factors play a part, but economists are divided on their relative importance.
"The risk factors include the dimensions of the structure, its location and its location relative to other buildings around it, " explains Matthew Waldrum from Omega Red Group, who assesses the risk of lightning hitting buildings.
Those who had been breastfed had a 58% chance of moving up the social ladder compared to 50% of those who were bottle-fed - a relative difference of 41% when the statistics were adjusted to take into account other factors which might influence the outcome.
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Many factors affect exchange rates, but I learned that the most important factor was relative rates of income growth.
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An unspecified (and impossible to compute accurately) number of trades take place at exchange rates that do not reflect the relative bargaining of buyer and seller but, instead, are determined by other social and gaming factors.
Several factors have conspired to push risk assets even higher including extraordinary support by the Bernanke Fed, relative calm in Europe, and diminished political uncertainty in Washington.
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