Sentences with phrase «for decades the rate»

For decades the rate of circumcision in the U.S. hovered around 90 %, with non-Jewish infant boys being circumcised within the first hours after birth.

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She particularly focused on drug laws impacts on people of color, who have for decades been convicted under aggressive drug laws at disproportionately high rates relative to whites.

People who understand these numbers understand that lower rates of business formation are an economic disaster that will have repercussions for decades to come.

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Canada's rate has been much higher than than that for decades.

The Federal Reserve Board voted Wednesday to raise interest rates, ending close to a decade of virtually free money — and that could mean financing challenges for startups and small businesses.

The low - interest - rate environment has allowed it to borrow to fund operations at levels that are about half the 10 percent interest rate the company paid for its financing more than a decade ago, says Clark Balderson, the company's chairman and chief financial officer.

But if you invest with the idea that rates will never rise again, or at least not for decades, then a lot of the tried - and - true investing rules that people have been following suddenly change.

But for decades, that hasn't been the case for the U.S.: A worldwide glut of savings from Chinese, Japanese, and other overseas investors holds our rates in check.

When the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation announced earlier this week that mortgage delinquency rates had fallen to the lowest level in decades during the fourth quarter, there was a rash of stories patting Canadians on the back for their financial prudence.

But an increase in the rate to 66 %, which we had in 1988, or to 75 %, which lasted for a decade from 1990 to 2000, is a distinct possibility.

Or at least that is likely what executives at NBC and parent company Comcast (cmcsa) are hoping for in generating ratings and justifying billions of dollars in investments to secure the U.S. airtime rights for decades now.

Same thing for the death rate, which has slowed to about 11 % from around 17 % three decades ago.

The Fed raised interest rates last December for the first time in nearly a decade, and at that time projected four more hikes in 2016.

It was also the largest annual increase in crime rates for a decade.

Biogen is among companies that have been singled out for criticism in recent months; the Wall Street Journal called out the company for hiking the price of MS drug Avonex — 21 times, and at an annual average rate of 16 % — over the past decade.

Indeed, for many decades, taxpayers only ever had to contend with two capital gains rates.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

For the summer as a whole, on - time rates have improved from 75 % to 77 %, with only 10 out of the top 50 airports seeing a deterioration since the beginning of the decade.

When the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates in December 2015 for the first time in nearly a decade, Wall Street expected it to be the beginning of a trend.

I recalled this decades - old memory when I read an investigation published online yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled, «Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs. Female Physicians.»

At the end of 2015, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade after they'd previously been near zero.

For instance, we found that Canadian Pacific Railway paid an average effective cash tax rate of just 1.8 % over the past decade.

Recording Industry Association of America's CEO Cary Sherman admits the U.S. music market grew at a healthy rate «for the first time in over a decade.»

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

The US obesity rate has been growing for the past decade — today, 36.5 % of America is clinically obese.

The death rate in the United States rose last year for the first time in a decade — do you think loneliness is partially to blame?

While at the beginning of 2011 trading in euro - dollar futures was still foreseeing a return to typical interest rates over the next few years, that view has given way to expectations that rates will remain low for a decade to come.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in a year and just the second time in more than a decade.

Instead the central bank has been stuck at the 0.25 % to 0.5 % range set last December when it lifted rates for the first time in a decade.

The Fed has been suggesting it could raise rates in 2016 since it tightened policy in December for the first time in nearly a decade, but investors have doubts the central bank will follow through on that guidance.

Yet the total rate of small business ownership, defined as the percentage of the population owning a business in a given month, has been dropping for decades, according to the report.

The Fed raised its key overnight lending rate in December for the first time in nearly a decade, but it has backed away from further monetary policy tightening this year largely due to a global economic slowdown and financial market volatility.

For a couple of decades, the industry rule of thumb has been that a 4 percent annual withdrawal rate, adjusted yearly for inflation, provides the best chance of not outliving your savinFor a couple of decades, the industry rule of thumb has been that a 4 percent annual withdrawal rate, adjusted yearly for inflation, provides the best chance of not outliving your savinfor inflation, provides the best chance of not outliving your savings.

Since 1950, life expectancies at birth have ticked upward at a rate of roughly two years per decade, from an average 68.2 for a newborn in 1950 to 76.8 for one in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

The two firms have operated as a cosy duopoly for the past decade, charging identical rates and racking up enormous sums.

The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story debuted last week to record ratings for its network, FX, while a documentary that also focuses on the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial airs on ESPN this summer, proving that two decades is not long enough to drain the interest of American viewers in the so - called «trial of the century.»

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is expected to hike rates next month for only the fourth time in nearly a decade.

And what happened to us was that our salaries stagnated and fell while the cost of the things we couldn't do without went up at rates well beyond that of inflation for decades as the social safety was being pulled out from underneath us.

From growing at double - digit rates in the earlier part of this decade, growth of bank assets (loans advanced by banks) shrunk to 4.4 percent in the first half of 2017 for the top 16 banks, according to Moodys.

His newsletter, the Institutional Risk Analyst, is famous; and his bank - rating mechanism has been well - known to investment professionals for decades.

The rate at which Americans start businesses has been falling for more than three decades, and while the decline has slowed in recent years, it has shown no sign of reversing.

Some term policies guarantee their rates only for the first year of the policy, while some rates last for decades.

Just look at Japan where interest rates have been zero for two decades.

Case in point: China's gross savings rate has been high for decades, averaging around 45 percent of GDP for the last 20 years, per the World Bank.

And the current 2 % target has resulted in falling 10 year Treasury rates for the last several decades, so it is clearly below the steady state value.

For instance, the U-6 rate measure that covers individuals who gave up looking for a job, or those who work part - time but want to work full - time, dropped to 86 percent in April, the lowest level in the past decaFor instance, the U-6 rate measure that covers individuals who gave up looking for a job, or those who work part - time but want to work full - time, dropped to 86 percent in April, the lowest level in the past decafor a job, or those who work part - time but want to work full - time, dropped to 86 percent in April, the lowest level in the past decade.

While I generally consider this advice to be wise, especially for inexperienced investors who should probably opt for something like an index fund, working with a qualified advisor or, if they are wealthy enough, an asset management group, the problem comes from the fact that if you find a truly outstanding business — one that you have conviction will continue to compound for decades at rates many times that of the general market, even a high price can be a bargain.