Andersen said the road to his backing of Edwards began through simple interest in the process.
The first half of the interest rate forecast is very simple: short-term interest rates will remain in microscopic territory through 2013.
We scored the top three countries (5, 3, and 1 respectively) per term and added these into a simple indicator of innovation interest.
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The answer is shockingly simple: By holding interest rates at or near zero for so long, the Fed has been forcing seniors to switch to riskier investments like stocks and mutual funds just to maintain their standards of living.
The Southeastern position, in effect, is that Michael Dell is acting out of simple economic self-interest and not out of his stated desire to hasten the transformation of the company without worrying about quarterly financial performance. (But, you are thinking, Gordon Gekko taught us that greed is good, right?) In short, Southeastern is saying that Michael Dell is seizing the day, buying back the company he founded on the cheap.
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Simple technology was his clear interest and passion, things you could touch, almost techno art.
That is fine as a sentiment, but presumably any employer of repute already knows that as a simple matter of self-interest.
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He was still reeling from the failure of JoinStart, and wondered whether he really had any interest in building simple web products without a bigger goal.
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In essence, duration is a much better measure of sensitivity to changes in interest rates than simple maturity, because it takes into account when investors get their money.
Katz says his program, which he calls "The PFS Simple Lease" refunds all interest charges to the driver if the driver wants to get out of the lease early.
All of those might be hurting the buck--recent history is not so clear on this--but I prefer a very simple cause: the higher real interest rates abroad.
The basic idea of credit is simple: you borrow money, pay interest to the creditor and ultimately repay the loan in good faith.
The American interest in this dispute is simple: peace, real peace.
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If Europeans are worried that a stronger euro will hurt their economies, then the solution is simple: the European Central Bank should cut interest rates to boost demand.
This combination would never occur in an unhampered, noninterventionist economy for the simple fact that higher consumption would mean higher interest rates (from less savings), which would discourage longer production.
To interest me, a game must have a simple but thought-provoking premise that allows for deep strategy.
An interest-free loan for new computers is a simple way to start.
Low interest rates are great for large companies for the simple reason that they are able to substitute debt for equity at very low borrowing costs.
The long-term political calculation is pretty simple: Political parties can't survive when governed by a single special interest.
Yet the explanation is simple: without the finance ministry's prop, Japan's absurdly low interest rates have begun to return to more sensible levels.
Interest on personal loans and credit cards will likely rise, and banks will charge more for simple tasks such as cashing a check.
Given the lack of transparency in Indonesian business culture, few believe Jakarta has the discipline to abide by a currency board's simple but absolute rules -- print no more money than can be backed by hard currency and let interest rates rocket as high as the market demands.
The answer is simple, advertisers are willing to pay to reach this audience believing that they have products or services of interest to a sufficient subset of that audience and distributors content choices are driven by what advertisers are willing to pay for not what their audience might actually want to see or hear.
And yet, for all its imperfections, the Turtle King was so much more practical than sitting in a stopped taxi or crowding onto a Beijing bus that it had become what all new-energy technology is somehow supposed to be: cheap, simple, and unobtrusive enough so that using it is no longer a matter of sacrifice but one of self-interest.
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