On homes with reductions, the original price had 9 as the last non-zero digit 52% of the time, while the reduced price had 9 as the last non-zero digit 54% of the time.
On homes with price reductions, the reduced price is even more likely to have a 9 as the last non-zero digit than the original price was.
To IBM he offered a price of zero in exchange for 10% of the savings--but he was spurned.
Even that amount is an overestimate because it assumes a final price of zero being determined in the auction.
These credits, however, run only through the end of 2007, and are reduced gradually to zero as the average price of oil rises.
But there is a better way to maximise the number of readers, Mr Myhrvold argues: drop the price to zero and make your money from advertising.
It would have involved manipulating mass psychology to calm a hysterical economy at a very low price, namely zero.
Patients could get two opinions for the same price: near zero.
Any inflation rate greater than zero means there is too much money chasing too few goods, which means the Fed should not be injecting new high-powered money if it wants to have price stability (zero inflation).
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With nominal rates at zero, and core consumer-price inflation at 0.5%, you are still paid to borrow.
This will enable CE manufacturers to provide wireless display connectivity with best-of-breed video quality and practically zero latency at an extremely attractive price points.
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But reducing the price of drugs to zero for roughly 11m elderly will surely result in increased consumption, which the campaign fails to take into account.
The Bank of England's central projection is that house-price inflation will subside to zero by the end of 2004.
Downloaders who want to pay nothing can enter "zero" in the site's price field and download the album for free.
The price of success should be zero in order to create the greatest incentives among effective managers to fix what is broken.
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In that sense, if future pay is a concern, one simple solution would be for Congress to either vote to keep the capital gains rate at 15%--or better yet reduce the price of investment success to zero.
Various rules have been proposed, including a price-level rule (zero inflation), an inflation target rule (2 percent inflation), a nominal GDP target, and a Taylor rule designed to control the growth of nominal income by controlling the monetary base.
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In effect, with Bear Stearns being sold for such a low price, including its valuable office property, the price of the securities portfolio is zero.
If price inflation starts to fall towards zero at a time when interest rates are already low, drastic action might be needed to head off deflation.
Speaking to Parliament's Treasury Select Committee on Tuesday, Sir Edward said he thought price rises would moderate "to zero, or maybe minus a bit in some parts of the country in the next couple of years".
As the price of e-readers approaches zero, it opens up more opportunities for people who have been left on the wrong side of the digital divide to access the same wealth of information, entertainment and education as people with normal vision and average-or-better income.
And every corporation small and large is feeling the side effects of Global Quantitative Easing (GQE), and the near zero interest rate policy, which undermine the functions of markets as price discovery mechanisms.
The expectation that an index fund will get EXACTLY the return of the target index sets the stage for an interesting problem: Zero tracking error is achievable, but it comes at a very high price.
Price may not be much of a deterrent for the market Zero is targeting, but for those who might consider one of its bikes prohibitively expensive, a New York-based company, Evolve Motorcycles, will soon offer plug-in motorcycles and scooters as well.
If you are doing it because it makes you sleep well at night to know that while the price may go down at least it won't go to zero, again, fine to own.
All intellectual property violates the efficiency rule that price should equal marginal cost of reproduction, which for knowledge is nearly zero.
The price of consumer goods is currently falling, and inflation overall is hovering around zero.
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