Of course, three data points does not a trend make, but we found it quite interesting to look at the subsequent returns when the Policy Uncertainty Index was higher than 150.
Housing is alleged to have corrected, but the real, and economy-enhancing correction is yet to come if and when the U.S. returns to sound dollar policy so that the economy can start growing again.
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Asked about diminishing returns, and if Fed policy was at a point where it is increasingly ineffective, while risks continue to mount, Kocherlakota was quick to reject the hypothesis.
Nothing else in development policy has such high returns on investment.
Making matters worse, because low interest rates have undercut the policy's investment returns, Mandell must double his premiums to keep the insurance in force beyond 2005.
When pressed to say whether more quantitative easing would have the desired effect, the incoming governor said, matter-of-factly, that Bank of Canada research had concluded the policy was having diminishing returns, especially in the US. He added this was "not surprising".
Because most American companies are set up as pass through organizations in which business income is taxed on the individual tax returns of the business owners, policy makers can reduce the tax burden on small businesses by cutting taxes on individuals.
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The enormous projected shortfalls in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid may outweigh the returns on public investments, so the optimal policy might well be to run surpluses right now.
Returns without a receipt are subject to the posted return policy, which might result in your receiving only a merchandise credit for the lowest price the item has sold for recently, or possibly no refund or exchange at all.
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The final article will address policy issues of whether we should have joint tax returns, and whether Rev.
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The writeup at the Economic Policy Institute noted above says Novy-Marx averages the returns of stocks and bonds when he should assume that higher-yielding stocks will become a larger proportion of the fund over time and increase the expected return, even if fund managers rebalance periodically.
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Yet separating policy impact from all of the other factors that affect market returns is exceedingly difficult (perhaps impossible).
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But aid workers in Laos query how long such a policy can be sustained, given that alternative crops often provide miserly returns from uncertain markets, not least because of Laos's appalling infrastructure.
But if monetary policy is explicitly leaning toward devaluation, investors know the value of their returns will decline.
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Nor does the PIMCO boss believe that any policy would be effective enough to make him wrong about his caution about returns in financial markets going forward.
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Finally, to protect itself more fully from perfectionism, your company should establish a policy of rewarding experiments that are unsuccessful when it comes to producing financial returns but that are highly successful when it come to producing knowledge returns.
As with the policy of quantitative easing pursued in America and Britain, there may be diminishing returns to unorthodox policies: having banks load up on even more domestic government debt is not ideal, for example.
Pros: The dividends can be steadier than stock returns or interest rates and can be borrowed tax-free as long as the life insurance policy stays in force.
Wal-Mart has adjusted its return policy for the season for items that usually are subject to limited 15 and 30 days returns.
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Mr. King reiterated his belief that all that any central bank can deliver over the long term is price stability and that since monetary policy can only bring forward future spending, it is subject to the law of diminishing returns.
But that cheap dollar policy actually only discourages the investment in America essential to getting the economy booming, as investors fear lower returns from a declining dollar, inflation, and the boom and bust cycles that such policies cause.
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