Sentences with phrase «believe economic projections»

A tax of $ 20 / ton, with an inflation - adjusted 4 % annual increase, knocks emissions down 14 % by 2020, and a larger number in 2050 if you believe economic projections that far in the future.

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In addition to the rules - based approach, Mester also suggested the Fed not focus so much on short - term data changes in its economic projections, and tweaking those projections to link them to where each individual member believes the funds rate should be if those conditions come to fruition.

In a letter to the Social Security trustees in December 2003, the American Academy of Actuaries, the leading professional organization of actuaries, warned that infinite - horizon projections «provide little if any useful information about the program's long - term finances and indeed are likely to mislead anyone lacking technical expertise in the demographic, economic, and actuarial aspects of the program's finances into believing that the program is in far worse financial shape than is actually indicated».

Now, here are a few samples of what I believe will not get filtered: 1) Straight line projections of world economic growth through 2050, 2) population projections through the same year, and 3) the notion that «humans will be living and working on Mars in colonies entirely independent of Earth by the 2030s.»