Sentences with phrase «less than inflation»

The DRS welcomes extra funding for mental health and for research in primary health, but says the «paltry» three per cent increase in hospital funding is less than inflation, the Medicare rebate freeze will remain in part for three years, and that it lacks proper investment for preventive health, Primary Health Care networks, dental care or community based programs axed by the 2014 cut to flexible funding.

Plan — 20 yrs; Return shows only 2 - 3 %... less than inflation rate... Because its combine with insurance.

This «portfolio» carries almost no risk of loss, but its expected return is less than the inflation rate.

Money market funds are paying less than inflation (especially true inflation — which exceeds reported inflation).

In fact, from 1980 to 2011, total household income in Canada grew by less than one - third of a percent per year (averaged out)-- considerably less than inflation.

And yes, I'm aware that the return you might get is probably still less than inflation.

It's not great that your money is growing at less than inflation but if you're saving for something like a downpayment on a house I would think that (nominal) capital preservation is probably more important than the potential for a higher return with the associated higher risk.

Current rates are at 1 % -2 %, which is less than inflation.

But you don't want your money to grow at a rate equal to or less than inflation.

With bonds yielding less than inflation these days, it is a good bet that yields will normalize at some point in the future.

But can anyone give me a good argument on why I should invest in a bond or a savings account that returns less than inflation?

To answer it correctly, you must understand that if your money grows at less than the inflation rate, its purchasing power declines.

Add in the tax breaks you get here in the US and the interest you pay is less than inflation (assuming you have good credit).

If annual salary increase percentages are less than inflation doesn't that mean that each year is financially tougher than the last?

When the return on an investment is less than the inflation rate, purchasing power is actually declining over time.

But T - bills have low returns and in some time periods return less than inflation.

If possible, try to avoid keeping too much in a savings account or CD as they don't earn much interest, often less than inflation.

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Furthermore, investing in GICs may seem conservative, but I'd also counter that earning a return that is less than inflation even before taking taxes into account could be also considered risky.

That's less than inflation.

The governor proposed just a 1 % increase in education funding — less than the inflation rate over the past year.

NIH gets an increase of $ 619.5 million, which, although large in absolute dollars, is less than inflation and «not as much as most people had hoped,» Moore says.

DiNapoli's report states that in the last decade, federal and state aid grew an average of 2.2 percent a year, which was less than the inflation rate of 2.4 percent during the same time.

12.24 New Tory MP Matt Hancock points out that Labour were going to increase benefits at less than inflation - and David Cameron agrees that the dupes on the Labour benches wouldn't have known that.

NY school taxes statewide have grown less than inflation since 2012, after excluding base growth due to property improvement.

Is it because the public sector pay freeze and rising unemployment means that average earnings will be less than inflation over the next two years?

The television licence fee will rise by less than inflation, after chancellor Gordon Brown turned down requests by the BBC for a higher increase.

The only thing Miliband will be able to tinker with is how much rents increase, but the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that rents have gone up by less than inflation in the last year, rising by just one per cent in England.

Respondents who expected their income to lose purchasing power (go up less than inflation) delayed gratification at a lower rate compared to those who expected to maintain the same purchasing power with their income.

If possible, try to avoid keeping too much in a savings account or CD as they don't earn much interest, often less than inflation.

Not exact matches

«As well, yesterday's FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting was less dovish than expected as the Fed kept its policy forecasts unchanged despite clear deceleration in inflation and a couple of bad data points yesterday.»

Those of us outside the inner circles of power are glad there's no inflation, because we'd rather get more for our money (deflation) rather than less for our money (inflation).

The value of commercial and industrial loans of less than $ 1 million — a common proxy for small business lending — was 17 percent lower in June of this year than it was at the beginning of the recovery — when measured in inflation adjusted terms.

Despite inflation making our lives more expensive every year, people in these 10 occupations are actually earning less, on average, than they were half a decade ago.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

Sterling has fallen on weaker - than - expected inflation and retail sales data and comments from BOE Governor Mark Carney on Thursday, which traders interpreted as the BOE's being less committed to raising rates in May due to recent «mixed» data.

In 2014, per person health - care spending grew 5.4 percent, well above the overall inflation rate of less than 1 percent, and the center expects spending to rise at an average rate of 5.8 percent a year from 2014 to 2024.

The worst case scenario is that the country will experience what economists call a «hard landing,» essentially a major slowdown in GDP growth, to less than 5 % or the approximate rate of inflation.

Earlier in the session, markets were confident about rate hikes in the coming months and digested euro zone inflation data showing the slowdown was lesser - than - expected.

The average savings account yields just 0.11 percent, which is far less than the rate of U.S. inflation.

Allergan chief Brent Saunders and Danish diabetes giant Novo Nordisk have both already volunteered to limit their price increases on drugs to less than 10 % (note: a 9 % price hike on a drug is still pretty high relative to inflation).

Back then, policymakers feared inflation less than a recession.

And speaking of inflation, shouldn't the risk for CDs be scored less than 10 because you may lose money to inflation that may not be compensated for with the interest you receive?

Markets suspected that the future contained less growth and more inflation than advertised.

His dollars should be working for him, not losing out to inflation in a savings account earning less than 1 %.

Some but probably less than half of the dollar's weakness can be explained by higher than expected inflation in the US.

With the Phillips curve appearing to be a less reliable guidepost than it has been in the past, the anchoring role of inflation expectations remains critically important.

Inflation is estimated to rise by somewhat less than 1/4 percentage point per annum over 2 — 3 years.

A target for nominal GDP (or the sum of all money earned in an economy each year, before accounting for inflation) is less radical than it sounds.

Core inflation remains a steady bit less than 2 %, and wages were thus climbing only.5 % on their own power of traditional wage pressure.