Thus, as productivity rises, as the profits that can be made from employing the newly more productive labour rise, so wages get bid up in order to gain access to those profits.

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As you rise up the corporate ladder you get more money but also more stress and more complications that can make you less happy on the job, right?

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So what other explanations could we have for this fall in the MLR? or if you prefer, this rise in the portion of premiums that get eaten up by something other than medical care?

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Will longer-term rates rise, and rise enough to induce banks to lever up their excess reserves, get them to re-enter the money creation business through the purchase of existing, now higher yielding securities?

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When supplies come up short, prices will rise, and gold will get a further boost from investment banks that have been selling it short and will be forced to buy it back, she says.

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When supplies come up short, prices will rise, and gold will get a further boost from investment banks that have been selling it short lately and will be forced to buy it back, she says.

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If rates rise, the yields go up, protecting lenders from capital losses (assuming the issuers don't get into financial trouble).

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Elizabeth Demers, a professor at INSEAD, a business school near Paris, points out that what companies lose in terms of hard cash in the early days can often be made up for in terms of the publicity they get when the news media applaud the explosive rise in their share prices.

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