Sentences with phrase «general inflation does»

The first, as mentioned above, is that general inflation does not account for sector specific rising costs.

Not exact matches

Hoguet, who is not a millennial, went on to note that Macy's internal economists accurately predicted a number of metrics last year when crafting the company's three - year plan — such as GDP growth, inflation, employment and wages — but missed the mark on GAAP growth, and fell short on sales of general merchandise, apparel and furniture, partially because they didn't predict how much off - price retail and consumer electronics would weigh on sales.

Of course, those critics do not mention that the General Assembly has cut over $ 400 million from education over the past three years, not even accounting for inflation or increases in the student population.

You don't notice the bite, because mutual funds deduct fees before reporting results to you, but as a general rule, the fees on a typical fund chew up a quarter to a half of the after - inflation gains your money will generate.

Copper mining stocks do tend to rise with inflation, but copper has the added advantage that its price also rises with general economic growth.

The value of gold does, in a general sense, go up with inflation, but then so do almost all other non-dollar investments.

The average investor received less than a quarter of the general market return and did not even keep pace with inflation.

Investors and asset managers who didn't understand the operational realities of the monetary system made devastatingly erroneous predictions about the direction of interest rates, inflation, stocks, commodities and the economy in general.

In a general way I think that their judgment (nearly all negative and I suspect that those report card grades will be nearly all F's and that coming in this age of grade inflation — darn glad I do not have parents to show it to) reflects on how this blog handles subject matter relative to a paper published for a professional journal.

The deductible and threshold amount to which it applies is revised each January to account for inflation.3 For example, in the case of damages arising from automobile accidents from January 1, 2017, until December 31, 2017, the deductible for general damages when a tort award does not exceed the monetary threshold of $ 124,616.21 is $ 37,385.17.