Sentences with phrase «artificial boost»

Phasing out ON - RRP, on the other hand, would eliminate the artificial boost that program has been giving to non-bank financial institutions» demand for Fed balances.

The hot potato quickly gets handed off to other dealers and speculators, giving the demand for various financial assets an artificial boost along the way.

If extended time instead lends an artificial boost to their scores, one would expect their SAT scores to «overpredict» their GPAs, meaning that they would actually perform worse in college than their SAT scores predicted.

We've learned from all reliable sources that Illinois was one of the states that did dumb down after No Child and that Chicago's short term «gains» were largely due to that artificial boost.

Then she learned her kids were given an artificial boost and when the final scores come out later this summer for the purposes of judging school and teacher performance, they won't look quite as good.

The problem with paid positive reviews is that they are directly linked to sales, giving the book an artificial boost over other books that might equal in quality or the same.

Its sound is particularly impressive considering that these speakers do not perform any digital signal processing, which other speakers use to give their cans an artificial boost in bass frequencies.

The data also suggest the mild winter weather may have given an artificial boost to payrolls during the winter, resulting in a correction in spring.