• In order for the SpaceX business strategy to work, the company must eventually achieve economies of scale made possible by high rates of launch activity.

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  • So let us work together for the worldwide reduction of interest rates and a scale of stimulus round the world equal to the depth of the recession and the dimensions of the recovery we must make.

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  • The other predictor of the scale of the epidemic in African countries, besides rates of circumcision, requires a rather different approach.

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  • While housing must slow down, I continue to believe that favorable demographic trends, shortages of desirable land, historically low interest rates, relatively healthy economic data, economies of scale and market share opportunities argue for much higher housing-share prices.

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  • In other words, the productivity benefits of greater scale are swamped by higher tax rates.

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  • Each subject rates each category on a scale of 1 to 7, ranging from Not a Problem to Major Problem.

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  • What makes this time different, on a global scale, however, is the reality of floating exchange rates.

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  • As noted above, even a quarter-percent increase in short-term interest rates would require a full-scale reversal of QE2.

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  • Data growth rates will simply outpace the cost of scale to manage hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of Big Data that comes every day.

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  • Both score among the highest of all those rated on the confidence scale, though Walters rates higher on "experience" than Clinton.

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  • On a global scale, however, autism rates are largely unknown, because of a lack of research and reliable epidemiological studies and a relative lack of awareness surrounding the condition, Dawson told CNN.

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  • MPC's reluctance to bring down rates again is that it is sceptical about the scale of the economic slowdown revealed in the national accounts.

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  • Shocks are still likely: for instance, the size of the bubble and scale of the bust may overturn historic relationships such as that between unemployment rates and credit-card losses.

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  • Probably partly because of higher unemployment, which meant more insecurity, and made people feel the need to show their dedication to the job, and partly because lower tax rates and rising pay at the top of the scale made working harder more worthwhile.

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  • One is the scale of rebalancing that the world economy requires, and the role of exchange rates in that process.

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  • Consequently, it is inaccurate to portray local banks as large-scale borrowers of dollar funds which are then placed locally at higher local-currency rates.

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  • Air Pollution Score rates tailpipe emissions for pollutants that cause smog, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the cleanest and 1 the dirtiest.

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  • For instance, Kerr said that companies with Web sites that have large and unpredictable transaction rates could take advantage of the system's ability to scale by adding another node, rather than buying new systems.

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  • By manipulating interest rates on such an unprecedented scale the Federal Reserve has effectively destroyed the ability of our credit markets to genuinely price the borrowing and lending of money.

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  • Large-scale structures are also visible, such as large clouds of dust and gas where stars are forming at rapid rates.

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  • Nor the fact that credit-card rates are fixed in secret, and have risen dramatically despite advances in technology and economies of scale.

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  • But, according to George Buckley of Deutsche Bank, the base rate would have to rise from its current 38-year low of 4% to around 7.5% to precipitate a full-scale bust, and he is expecting rates to rise to no more than 5%.

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