Sentences with phrase «interesting than our past»

Flashing back and forth through time to show how our main character got to be where he is, I found the present day more interesting than the past, due to the fact that the interesting portions of the past feel incomplete and not fleshed out enough.

«I usually get some, but right now it seems that there is way more interest than past years.»

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A sea change in economic conditions has pushed interest rates considerably lower than they were in the past and are likely to stay there for a while, San Francisco Fed President John Williams said Friday.

And yet — here's where things get interesting — Canadians are far better off than one would tell looking at our dismal productivity performance over the past 20 years.

«We have this interesting paradox of progress, where we are building systems in medicine, transportation and business that are much more sophisticated than what we had in the past,» Tilcsik says.

The New York Times (nytab) has been criticized in the past for remaining family - controlled, and some have argued that the newspaper would be better off if it were run by a regular corporation rather than being operated in the interests of a specific family.

And several Democrats said recent conversations with Springer, as well as his schedule, suggested he seemed to be more seriously interested in running this time than in years past.

That means policy makers may have to raise interest rates sooner than they have in the past to keep prices in check.

For example, if your boss has immediately fired a past employee who told them about another job opportunity then it may be in your best interest to start your new job sooner rather than later to avoid missing out on pay.

«Today, rather than create results we won't be able to carry out like in the past, we should make good results by talking frankly about current issues, issues of interest,» Kim said.

Here's hoping it does better than his mining interests, some of which fell almost 50 % over the past year.

Covergirl's Star Wars makeup line is interesting, because the franchise has been marketed in the past more to men than to women.

There are a few hundred microlenders throughout the United States and while they often charge slightly higher interest rates for loans than banks, they've helped 250,000 - 300,000 small businesses each year and lent more than $ 2 billion nationwide during the past 10 years, according to the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), the trade association for microlenders.

I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but simple math based on the current level of interest rates leads me to believe that these risk premiums will be much wider in the future over longer time frames than they've been in the recent past.

One area of interest in this field is whether it costs more to purchase an average residential property now than it did in the past.

In a low - inflation environment, nominal interest rates are also low, and households are able to service much higher levels of debt than they could in the past.

There is probably truth in both of those, but I do think it is important, in considering claims of irrational exuberance, to note that the earnings price ratio - interest rate relationship is in a very difference place than it has been in past peaks.

«The economy has never been as levered as it currently is, and the economy is far more interest sensitive than it has been in the past, to a degree that we don't have certainty over how each interest rate hike is going to affect Canadian consumers,» said Frances Donald, senior economist at Manulife Asset Management, by phone from Toronto.

My second reason for disappointment in Jackson Hole was that Chair Yellen, while very thoughtful and analytic, was too complacent to conclude that «even if average interest rates remain lower than in the past, I believe that monetary policy will, under most conditions, be able to respond effectively».

As a result, investors seeking additional returns from fixed - interest portfolios have been prepared to accept greater credit risk than in the past.

In the recent past, low interest credit cards have become more common than they used to be a few years ago.

Best of all, Wells Fargo has grown its interest earning assets by $ 123 billion, or 8 %, over the past year alone, which is significantly greater than its competition.

It's not just that future returns will be lower from current interest rate levels than they've been in the past; it's that volatility in bonds will be much higher from -LSB-...]

Remember that interest rates could rise higher than the past highs.

«While in the past, interest rates have been lower and for longer than people expected, they may go higher and faster than people expect,» Dimon said.

While in the past, interest rates have been lower and for longer than people expected, they may go higher and faster than people expect.

Upcoming economic data are likely to matter more for interest rates and currencies than they have over the past few months, when market participants waited for the launch of QE2, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

The low interest rate environment may also have encouraged a shift in investments towards hedge funds as, in the past, hedge funds have achieved higher average returns than traditionally managed investments, albeit in exchange for greater risk.

During the past few months, economic data, both in the United States and overseas, has been stronger than most market observers were expecting several months ago, especially given the fact that interest rates have risen.

Yet structurally lower interest rates point to sustainably higher valuation multiples than in the past.

The second point is that more marginal borrowers are now more likely to take on a principal - and - interest loan than in the past.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

This is not unlike the dilemma facing many retirees and other individual investors: holding ultra-safe interest - bearing investments is wise past a certain age; yet when yields are lower than the inflation rate, this strategy erodes buying power and undermines long - term financial security.

When we talk about the Bank of Canada offsetting rather than accommodating changes in fiscal policy, it is important to understand that we are talking about changing the nominal interest rate relative to what it would have been otherwise without the fiscal policy change, and not relative to what the nominal rate was in the past.

Computations of real interest rates should really be made by deducting an expectation of future, rather than past, inflation from the relevant nominal interest rate.

While many people believe that growth in the years ahead will be lower than it has been in the past, we can also observe that cash per dollar of earnings has increased over the years for S&P 500 companies as returns on capital have increased, while the cost of capital has fallen with lower interest rates.

While the bullish case for gold is directly contrary to the interests of the financial establishment generally, it is of extreme interest and benefit to the subset of the establishment that has made more than $ 1,000,000,000,000.00 in illegal profits over the past forty years by rigging the gold market, and that wishes to steal as much additional money as they can get away with.

But thanks to what happens each December, coupled with the Fed's delay in raising interest rates until mid-month, there was a lot more volatility in the last month of 2015 than there has been in past years.

But he interests himself in their vision of the past rather than in the question of the conformity of their vision to an objective past event.

Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the past.

Similarly, students in master of divinity and other professional programs are usually asked about vocational goals; strong interest in ordained ministry is, of course, welcome, but fewer institutions now than in the past require that all students in ministry programs be sponsored or approved by ordaining bodies.

There are very pragmatic reasons why we should confront this matter with more honesty and long - term commitment than we've done in the past, but the main reason goes beyond self - interest.

The Qur» an is less interested in chronology than the Old Testament, so that its references to past events are in no particular order and are used as examples for the present.

The Romantic eye was particularly suited to see something in Don Juan more interesting than had been noticed in the past: some deeper significance lurking behind all that romping, glittering, ravenous exuberance — some secret sadness or divine discontent.

Of the kernel of history which transcends the myth, Bultmann can speak only in negative terms: «Our interest in the events of his life, and above all in the cross, is more than an academic concern with the history of the past.

The modest revival of interest in medieval philosophy in the past forty years might augur a change in fortunes for reasoned discussion of how to understand God's role in all three religions, but one finishes these two lucid books far more aware of lost opportunities than of newfound hope.

Still, for those of us who have labored in the past to straighten the conceptual kinks in the traditional problem of evil, the emergence of a new theodicy, worked out in something more than only cursory form, is an occasion of special interest.

In any case it is clear, since this final form of the tradition maintains three names for one man, that tradition is always interested in concerns other than the simple record of past details for the sake of the record.

Therefore, if this book is to be anything more than information on interesting occurrences in the past, more than a walk through a museum of antiquities, if it is really to lead to our seeing Jesus as a part of the history in which we have our being, or in which by critical conflict we achieve being, then this book must be in the nature of a continuous dialogue with history.

The company also claims to beat Hellmann's in taste tests; and Tetrick's overt political agenda — he recently penned an open letter to the 2016 presidential candidates about the food system — makes purchasing mayonnaise a lot more interesting than selecting sandwich spreads in decades past.