Sentences with phrase «decades the rate of»

Since the start of this decade the rate of growth of what was perceived to be low risk assets at many banks, was significantly higher than the rate of growth of capital, a trend that played a great part in the collapse of many financial institutions.

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.

Researchers have also found that over the last few decades the rate of trees dying under more normal conditions has increased dramatically in many parts of the world — including in Sequoia National Park.

I see another alarmist post from The Climate Action Tracker claims that temperatures are going to rise by 3C above pre-industrial levels by 2100AD, a ludicrous claim that requires.35 C / decade rate of increase.

The IPCC predicts that the anthropogenic fraction of CO2 will rise exponentially this century, yet in the past decade the rate of increase in CO2 concentration has been falling.

However, I'm one who believes in a ~ 60 yr cycle, so for the first 5 decades the rate of increase would be something like this.05 +.05 +.05 +.2 +.2 = 0.55

I am afraid and sure that measurement is accurate to tenths and hundreths» Where did you get your figure of 0,1 C / decade rate of increase for the Arctic?

^ ^ ^ ^ data showing 1.0 C / decade rate of decline in lower troposphere temperature since 2010 — I'm not making it up — global average temperature has been dropping like a stone since 2010 — in fact that rate of decline is itself alarming if it continues for long — it had better be a freak happenstance of back - to - back to La Ninas because a repeat of the Little Ice Age will have a far higher toll in absolute number of lives lost compared to the last one.

Not exact matches

A new report from the city's Department of Small Business Services found that, over the last decade, women - owned businesses in the city grew by 43 %, outpacing the average company growth rate of 39 %.

«People who live at least another few decades will likely be affected by diminished funding of Social Security, and also the economic impacts that impact the broader economy, including rising interest rates and inflation,» Hamrick said.

The ECB, however, said after its latest policy - making meeting Thursday that it still doesn't expect to raise its own interest rates until «well past» September next year — and even then, only if it is absolutely sure that inflation is back on track after a decade of undershooting.

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.

Latina - owned businesses explode: In the last decade, Hispanic Americans have been starting and growing new businesses at twice the rate of the general population, according to a new study by researcher Geoscape and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Consequently, Salt Lake City has enjoyed among the highest rates of salary growth in the country over the past decade, according to BLS data.

«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.»

The Fed's decision to edge off of a crisis - level rate policy was long anticipated and experts say this first rate hike in nearly a decade might not have much of an impact overall.

«The credit quality, this move up in interest rates, this loss of a four - decade uptrend in bonds, downtrend in yields, that's the source of the volatility which I think far surpasses these amazing developments technology has come across in the last couple of decades,» said Gordon.

And that may be the crux: a decade of low interest rates has fuelled habitual credit reliance by consumers.

Canadians are living longer — life expectancy is increasing at the rate of roughly one year per decade.

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 Dow, S&P 500 and Russell 2000 hit record highs this week as investors put the congressional testimony of former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the back burner and await what could be the fourth rate hike in more than a decade on Wednesday.

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.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

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.

At the end of the year, several urgent fiscal issues will converge, including the expiration of lowered individual income tax rates enacted a decade ago under President George W. Bush.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

In its spring forecast, the European Commission said it expects economic growth across the 28 - country EU to dip to 2.3 percent this year, from last year's decade - high rate of 2.4 percent.

Decades of falling interest rates has taught individual investors that bonds are safer than stocks.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

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.

They're leaving countries, particularly the tri-border region — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras — Mexico now has its worst murder rate in over a decade, and many people are just trying to get out of there.

As of January 2001, the CBO foresaw another decade of 3 % real GDP growth, 3 % inflation, unemployment at 5 % or below, and flat - as - a-pancake interest rates.

In the last couple decades, the growth in the number of women's businesses (up 68 percent), employment (up 11 percent), and revenues (up 72 percent) blows past the growth rates of all but the largest publicly - traded businesses, and tops growth rates among all other privately - held businesses over this period.

The person with the higher fees will run out of money more than two decades earlier, assuming both withdraw from their accounts at the same rate.

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.

Britain's housing market continued to lose momentum data showed too, with mortgage approvals at their weakest in nearly three years following the Bank of England's first interest rate hike in a decade.

The euro zone economy expanded at its fastest rate in a decade in 2017 and European equities are set to end January with gains of around 3 percent.

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.

The growing recognition of the negative effects of corporate tax rates explains why Canada and other OECD countries have made it a point to reduce corporate income taxes over the past few decades:

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.

However, in the past decade, this massive generation became invisible at the rate of 10,000 members per day as they passed the five - decade mark.