"I think an Obama presidency will share the same interest and concerns of our members and the rest of the American public, and that's get the engine of growth going, get innovation going again, get job creation growing, " Josten says.

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Because all member states share the same nominal interest rate, slow-growing economies with lower inflation, such as Germany and Italy, have higher real interest rates than fast growers, such as Spain and Greece.

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If we want to understand the true burden of health entitlements, we need to account for not only what we spent on them directly, but also the fair share of net interest payments on the national debt attributable to these same entitlements.

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Many of Mr Brands's tycoons, the living as well as the dead, share Morgan's confidence that their interests and the national interest are one and the same thing.

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If so, share prices would almost certainly fall, too: a two-point increase in interest rates plus a 20% drop in share prices would have roughly the same dampening effect.

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Interest-only mortgages have vaulted in the same period from virtually no market share in the mainstream lending business to a 50% share.

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