Sentences with phrase «interesting points were made»

Though, personally, I attended the conference wondering why we need a Jewish, or any specifically religious response to the energy challenge, several interesting points were made.

EW: An interesting point was made by one person in the book who noted that math teachers never are called on to defend the role of math in the curriculum.

some interesting points being made here.

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His remarks can't be considered a roadmap for the future path of interest rates; he made a point of stating that every policy meeting is «live,» meaning the latest data could alter assumptions.

You need to find a way to start the introduction with any of those points, preferably in a way that is interesting, reverses some common idea or makes the reader take notice in some way.

In the press release for the Oxford study, one of its researchers, Allison Stewart, makes an interesting point: «Unlike other major programmes such as bridges, airports, IT or engineering works, the Games are always a unique undertaking to that city.

The agency commissioned a survey that found 720,000 families would struggle to make payments on their home - equity loans if interest rates rose by a mere 0.25 percent, and almost one million would be in trouble if borrowing costs rose a full percentage point.

«They have a vested interest in making sure that it's done right, that it's good, that there are no mistakes made and pointing out any problems.»

Dick Leinenkugel, current president and great - great - grandson of founder Jacob Leinenkugel, says his family has no regrets: «My point of view is that we are all brewers, and you need to be united as an industry, because our battle is really about making beer interesting again and taking share from wine and spirits.»

«If you purchase a home but can't make the payments if interest rates go up by two percentage points, you probably shouldn't be buying that home in the first place,» he says.

The other major point of interest for the meeting's announcements will be whether a younger official is elevated to a station that makes them a prime candidate to replace Xi.

«On the left side of the page, I write real - time notes around what I'm hearing — interesting, relevant points that I need to make sure I don't forget,» he says.

The deal is expected to close by the end of 2016, at which point Katzenberg will become chairman of DreamWorks New Media, made up of the company's ownership interests in AwesomenessTV and NOVA.

There is an endless supply of business statistics (proving most any point you want to make), research and studies (many with surprising results), and interesting real - life stories (of business success and failure), all available within seconds by doing a simple Google search.

But that's the point: If I spend time optimizing each decision, I won't have an interesting work - life left to make all those decisions about.

Keller points out that one of the reasons to own a franchise in the first place is because owners almost always make money when they sell; but in the U.S. most teams aren't making profits from attendance and TV revenues are small compared to other leagues, all of which dampens buyer interest.

«One of the keys to selling tax reform is the president making the point that tax reform will unrig this economy by stripping out the special - interest deductions and carve - outs that riddle this code,» said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded by the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers that is spending heavily to push changes to the tax code.

To point to some interesting data, I had occasion to review recent Statistics Canada data that made it clear that there are 200,000 households in Toronto that earn over $ 200,000 dollars.

This makes sense given how bonds are structured, but I think many investors miss this point when they worry about the potential risks from rising interest rates.

Their sample included a lot of small OPEC countries, who necessarily had high growth and low interest rates when oil prices were high, as well as a lot of Asian countries that followed the Japanese development model and themselves practiced financial repression, which of course made them pretty useless as points of comparison.

I was just trying to make the point that the mortgage interest deduction is not the panacea that some people think it is.

There could be several factors that had investors on edge — including news that North Korea had completed a fifth nuclear missile test and the European Central Bank had declined to announce additional measures to help stimulate Europe's sluggish economy — but many strategists pointed to a speech Friday morning by Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, in which he said that «a reasonable case can be made» for tightening interest rates in the U.S..

1:05:57 - 1:08:47: Jason brings up an interesting point... how easy will it be to make a profit when it is already so difficult for artists to make a living on their music?

For example, there's a startup called EvaluAgent that uses points and rewards to make boring tasks in call centers more interesting.

The Reserve Bank does not expect RITS members to make frequent use of SF Repos contracted at a rate of interest that is 25 basis points above the cash rate target.

A couple of other interesting data points on the direct selling industry are women make up 77 % of sellers and wellness products are driving the growth of the industry (see chart below; click to enlarge).

I'd just separate the point you were making because the point I'm making is that a move towards creating shoppers is creating better care on primary care, just in terms of how we treat the consumer, and the consumers are opting into that and finding it interesting and effective.

Interest rates may increase but probably not enough to make an impact to a CD that is up for renewal, Real estate income should increase over time but mostly a few percentage points here and there, I suppose you could manufacture more income by paying off one of the rentals assuming your income numbers are after expenses and not gross income.

On that point, to argue that low interest rates are enough to make extreme valuations irrelevant is to wholly miss the point.

Nassim Taleb was on Bloomberg TV yesterday making an interesting point (his TV appearances have been less interesting in the...

Nassim Taleb was on Bloomberg TV yesterday making an interesting point (his TV appearances have been less interesting in the last couple of years) that although made many time before in many places is still important.

Tony was very helpful by asking good questions and making interesting points.

At TSI over the past year and at the TSI Blog two months ago I've made the point that the Fed gave itself the ability to pay interest on bank reserves so that the Fed Funds Rate (FFR) could be raised without the need to shrink bank reserves and the economy - wide money supply.

So, even though Lender A has the lowest interest rate advertised, Lender A's points, fees, and other prepaid finance charges actually make Lender A more expensive than Lender C, which is advertising a higher interest rate but lower points and fees than Lender A.

The fact that he doesn't seem particularly interested in learning the finer points of policy makes it easier for the North Koreans to convince him that a terrible agreement actually isn't so bad — and after much flattery, he might very well be convinced to make a «great deal.»

In his response, Austin made an interesting point: although there is certainly a distinction to be made between investments from private companies and SOEs, there is also one to be made between the different kinds of SOEs.

if they can find Banks willing to take a «long «position that will allow them to have a non-expanding debt load and interest only payments on a loan, they might be able to withstand the low price cycle until opec led by Saudi Arabia can get world producers to curtail production and elevate prices to a point where all producers are making some money.

And by doing that, they would make small incremental adjustments to the effective Fed funds rate or the Fed funds target rate at that point in time and actually, because it wasn't posted on Bloomberg or wasn't said at that point in time, in the late 70s, early 80s you wouldn't actually know that the Fed was actually targeting or adjusting interest rates until you actually saw those processes or felt them in the marketplace occurring in the short - term markets.

Khan's arguments make the point that the public interest is missing from traditional consideration of antitrust.

thanks for providing an interesting view point about how God has been secularized and how we human beings are lacking the humility that can make this world, and this country a better place to live.

I think the most interesting point you made above was that «these reasons only make sense when your mind is already made up.»

I'm no particular friend of Piper or of Margaret Thatcher, but on the occasion of her funeral Diane Francis wrote a piece on feminism which makes interesting points.

You make an interesting point, just because god is a fable does nt mean there aren't useful lessons in the bible fables.

An interesting point, but not actually related to the one I was making.

Personally, I think it would be interesting, but makes no difference to the main point of the narratives.

Among the points made was that, despite the bishops» declared intention, a statement such as «Political Responsibility,» issued by the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), is in fact a political platform, and it inevitably presents the Catholic Church as but another political interest group.

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There is no need for me to restate the points made by Professor Davis; his article may be consulted by anyone interested in the subject.

I should point out that you are not in a genuine position to spearhead making sure that some «qualified mature people» reviews the evidence, both because you are a named accused and because you are have a financial interest in seeing Tony and Doug exonerated.

Indeed, as former bishop of Worcester Peter Selby long ago pointed out, the real source of our indebted society is this: «Lending money has become the best way of making it, and there is a large constituency of people now with a strong interest in maintaining that situation.»