Caller: Then how do you know you are billing the right rate?
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At the moment astrophysicists are trying to figure out whether the universe will collapse in a big crunch, expand at just the right rate to avoid collapse, or expand very rapidly.
Here is a guide to determining the right spending rate in pursuit of growth.
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There is a lot of debate about the right discount rate to use, but the conservative approach is to take the cost of government borrowing.
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If shares change in value, that must reflect a change in investors' assessment of either the prospective dividend flow (for example, because of fears about the future level of profits) or the right discount rate (for example, because of a change in inflationary prospects or in long-term real interest rates), or both.
No wonder, then, that emerging-market economies are confused about the right exchange-rate regime to pursue.
Judged against the labor force participation we would have at full employment (67.3%), the true jobless rate right now is 13.2%.
Because data shows African Americans are not getting those jobs, when the African American unemployment rate is right now 16.1 percent, and the black teen unemployment rate is 44 percent.
Right now, the rate of growth for the NIH budget is virtually flat.
This is a significant increase from the national rate holding right around 30% over the last year as reported by the National Association of Realtors.
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In Saudi Arabia, holder of the world's largest proven oil reserves, the youth jobless rate is right near the regional average, despite a half trillion dollar diversification package from King Abdullah.
He quoted the ECB's first president, Wim Duisenberg, speaking in 1999, when he said that finance ministers had agreed to exercise their right to orient exchange rate policy only in exceptional circumstances.
Investors had not been expecting another European rate rise right away, thanks to troubles in the U.S. housing market and uncertainty about China, but UBS analyst Stephane Deo does see the ECB hiking rates again to 4.25% in September, and to 4.75% in mid-2008.
But what happens if the bulls are right and our GDP growth rate bounces back to a lively, noninflationary 4% ... yet the bears are right as well, and the market doesn't give a fig about growth because it cares only about meeting a statistical average?
If I'm a business owner, and I'm saying to myself, right now the unemployment rate is 10 percent, so there are a whole lot of folks who have never been to jail who are looking for a job -- it's hard for me to say, I'll choose the guy who went to jail instead of the person who never went to jail and has been laid off.
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While the unemployment rate fell for all the right treasons, with household employment up by 873, 000 and the labor participation rate inching up 0.1 percentage points, the latter still remains close to its lowest levels in approximately 30 years.
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Barack Obama's visit to Israel has got off on the right foot, at any rate.
Generally it happens right after they set the rate, within a couple of weeks or days.
Some countries in Europe right now have an unemployment rate of 15, 20 percent.
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Right now, the unemployment rate for Americans with a college degree or more is about half the national average.
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Indeed, Chinese megashops are hawking low-rate Android tablets right now for around the same amount, setting a new (low) bar when it comes to pricing on ho hum slates.
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Since growth in the U.S. is sluggish at best right now, inflation and rate increases may not be as big a danger as some fear-mongers would lead you to believe.
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When it is economically right, introduce the 10p starting rate of income tax - announced every major speech.
No moneylender in his right mind would, at any rate of interest, advance a sufficient sum to buy the necessary items for each daughter: beds, a dresser, trunks, electric fans, dishes, six suits of clothes for the groom, six for the bride, perhaps a television, and on and on and on.
Thus the conclusion is that the 50 p rate should be abolished, right now.
All right, well, for the unemployment rate, the administration projects that we will end 2010 with an unemployment rate at approximately 9.8 percent.
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