Brazil famously has a first-world rate of government spending but third-world public services.
The IMF also cut the 2013 world growth rate from 3.9% to 3.6%.
That is because in the real world the rate cuts will not lose nearly as much revenue as CBO scores.
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The U.S. today suffers from virtually the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, with a federal rate of 35%, and the states pushing it to close to 40% on average.
By some measures, that is dozens of times as safe as the world-wide rate.
In May the Reserve Bank appeared to promise the world a further rate rise down under.
"A lot of top-rate world champions have not managed to bow out undefeated, " said Calzaghe.
Cigarette stocks have become downright trendy of late as investors have taken to chasing yield in a low-interest-rate world.
If the dollar is the most important price in the world, the rate of interest for borrowed dollars is arguably the second most.
One highly apocalyptic analyst, speaking highly off record, believes that if Italy gets dragged into the high-interest rate world, its banks will find this unsustainable.
Right now, he sees vast similarities between the bond market today and the low-interest rate world with high debt-to-GDP after World War II that led to a generational bear market in bonds.
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Of course, in a zero interest rate world where interest returns have dropped close to traditionally low Japanese levels in the U.S. and elsewhere, Japan at present does not have much of a competitive disadvantage.
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Gensler first made the push to replace Libor last summer saying the financial world needs a rate that was tied to actual market transactions rather than what are essentially guesses by banks about their own daily borrowing rates.
Gensler first made the push to replace Libor last summer saying the financial world needs a rate that was tied to actual market transactions rather than what are essentially guesses by banks about their own borrowing daily rates.
Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) is a climatologist who realizes, as a slice of the polar ice cap slides into the sea, that the end of the world (or, at any rate, of that half of the world that drives S.U.V.s) is nigh.
The Arab world is the region that carries the highest rate of unemployment in the world.
The U.S. suffers virtually the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, nearly 40%, with a 35% federal rate, and another nearly 5% in state corporate rates on average.
Since then the world has cut more than we have and left the United States with the highest marginal corporate tax rate in the world.
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However, biodiversity and ecosystem services are declining at an unprecedented rate and the world failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.
Now the Fed is artificially stimulating the economy by printing money at a rate the world has never seen.
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The growth rate of world output of goods and services has been in an extensive slowdown since 2008, but the volume of financial assets continues to expand quickly.
U.S. corporate profits (which are expressed in nominal terms) have tended to rise and fall at about twice the rate of world nominal dollar GDP, suggesting double-digit profit growth again in 2006.
As it happens, progress in improving health for the total population as measured by expected length of life at birth proceeded at not far from the same rate before World War II and after World War II.
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Now the company can place up to 40 payments in a single message and it can deliver that message to a domestic point on the SWIFT network and have it sent on anywhere in the world at the domestic rate, which is a half to a third of the international charge.
Even before the global financial crisis battered the rich world, dozens of emerging markets were growing at a faster rate than America, the world's leading economy.
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