Sentences with phrase «historical point of return»

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The point of those analyses and «historical genealogies» that have become an object of derision among the liberals — oddly, from those who advocate a return to Madisonian principles — is certainly not to retreat to the comfort of the library or the coffee shop; nor is it to deny the contingencies of history by suggesting that 1968 follows upon 1776 with some kind of mechanical necessity.

Or must we conclude that he was as literalistic in this matter as the early Church, and expected a world historical act of God at a chronological point of time in the near future, as the Church expected her Lord's return?

We shall return to Jeremias's work on the parables again and again, for it is epoch - making in several respects, but for the moment we want only to call attention to the consequences of this work so far as a general view of the nature of the synoptic tradition is concerned the success of Jeremias's work demands that we accept his starting - point, namely, that any parable as it now stands in the gospels represents the teaching of the early Church and the way back from the early Church to the historical Jesus is a long and arduous one.

But he returned to the discussion later, in a quite different context, and then it became obvious that he regarded himself as committed by the New Testament itself to a necessary link with the historical Jesus, for he could only reiterate his major point, that Christian faith as such is committed to the paradoxical assertion that a historical event within time, Jesus and his cross, is the eschatological event, and support it by exegesis of New Testament texts, especially Paul and John.

It's important to note that if you are retired during a period when the stock market returns less than its historical average, and you withdraw 8 % a year from your retirement savings as Ramsey recommends, you can deplete your retirement funds to the point that it deals a severe blow to your standard of living.

The following chart shows historical returns for investors in the S&P 500 index over the long term from two different points of view.

Mauboussin points out that most of the research on historical returns is based on «days when the stock market had twice as many companies as it does today,» suggesting that the conclusions drawn could be misguided.

So if an investment option is listed as having a 6 % historical rate of return but comes with 125 basis points in management fees, you should keep in mind that returns will be reduced by 1.25 %.

I need to point out that the compound annual growth rate of 10.34 % in the historical data is not a number you should use for expected future returns.

This piece looks at the historical returns of multiple asset classes and identifies previous times when commodities rebounded from low points and turned sharply upward.

You can find all sorts of predictions of expected future returns based on various factors, calculations, and models, but unfortunately, most of them point to a rate of return for both stocks and bonds in the next few years that is below historical averages.

As the galavanting guru Arthur Frommer points out in a recent blog post, the exchange rate of the Indian Rupee is at a historical low as compared to the U.S. dollar, with each greenback returning about 53 rupees.

Home to some of the best natural landscapes in the Canaries, Gran Canaria offers the Roque Nublo, an enormous 80m rock, the painted Cave of Galdar, one of the most important historical sites in the Canaries, and the historic capital Las Palmas, Columbus» stopping point as he returned from the Americas.

Taking into account Green's longstanding consideration of the historical and institutional legacies of Modernism, in Pacing, the title of her CCVA project, the artist will engage with and return to an ongoing series of questions and forms of relation, allowing during the invited period a variety of trajectories to emerge from myriad points of material, imaginings, and speculation.

So if an investment option is listed as having a 6 % historical rate of return but comes with 125 basis points in management fees, you should keep in mind that returns will be reduced by 1.25 %.

If the historical relationship continues to hold, then the dividend yield spread of just -0.29 percentage points as of the beginning of January 2018 would translate to REIT total returns of 22.18 percent over the next 12 months and to REITs outperforming the broad stock market by 6.68 percentage points.