After nearly three years of deliberation, regulators have finalized the Qualified Residential Mortgage (QRM) rule and abandoned the onerous and costly down payment requirement while giving creators of mortgage - backed securities one
less uncertainty on their road to recovery.
Equivalently, a longer data series will give
less uncertainty on the underlying trend.
Not exact matches
There are hotspots globally, and there is policy
uncertainty in the United States, but again, we've been focused
on the emerging market theme because we have found that economies that we used to think of as politically unstable have actually proved to be
less so as they pursue more orthodox types of policies.
Why focus
on the long term with its pervasive risk and
uncertainty when it's cheaper and
less risky to speculate
on whether the PMI Services number will be up or down and how new short - term expectations will affect markets?
The USDMYR landscape is a bit muddled, and this air of
uncertainty could extend, more so if opinion
on the soft dollar narrative become
less reliable.
Faster response times to change and
less overall anxiety during times of
uncertainty have been the experiences of those who have
on - going working relationships with us.
Who can deny that if our politicians and bankers had displayed greater trustworthiness — if they had humility before the
uncertainties of valuation and greater concern for the effect of their actions
on others — then this crisis would be
less painful?
Tuborgh said that the declining payouts were therefore unavoidable due to current economic
uncertainty, which he claims has pushed consumers to buy
less dairy products and increasingly focus spending
on discounted goods.
This would give an increased legitimacy to the process, so that it would be
less vulnerable to pressures by the stronger side,
less dependent
on elitist interest, and most importantly, it would reduce the current
uncertainty.
The news conference will come at an action - packed time for the President, just days after he helped launch direct Middle East peace talks and gave a prime - time Oval Office address
on the end of combat operations in Iraq, as well as falling
less than two months before a critical midterm election where Democrats» majorities in the House and Senate are
on the ropes largely because of the nation's economic
uncertainty.
Though I see nothing but vague & cloudy
uncertainty in the foreground of our being, yet I fancy I discern a very bright light a good way further
on, and this makes me care much
less about the cloudiness & indistinctness which is near.
These changes were also seen to impact particularly
on women and those
less educated, with the authors suggesting that
uncertainty and negative expectations generated by the recession rather than unemployment might explain the changes seen.
On the contrary, I'm possibly more or
less not definitely rejecting the idea that in no way with any amount of
uncertainty that I undeniably do or do not know where he shouldn't probably be, if that indeed wasn't where he isn't.
In The Future, writer / director / star Miranda July indulges in the same wayward malaise of her previous film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, but, somewhat ironically, the focus
on the
uncertainty of «what comes next» makes this one seem a lot
less scattershot.
Admittedly, I have a soft spot for the horror genre, but based
on the film's unforgettably tense and borderline - gothic trailer, it seems like it will be an atypical genre flick: relying
less on sudden shocks and more
on an atmosphere of dread and
uncertainty to affect its viewers.
Since the time for assignment completion is
less, student's have
uncertainty if the writers will be able to achieve the assignment
on time or not.
Interest rates
on personal loans are typically lower than those for personal lines of credit, because there is
less uncertainty involved for the lender.
The ECB has also relied
less on signalling their intentions than the Fed, a consequence of which is greater
uncertainty.
Not only would developers get the security of being able to develop for one ecosystem in an x86 architecture without having to deal with obstacles like NDA's
on new consoles etc. but there would also be a lot
less worrying over the
uncertainty over new generations.
Given that the
uncertainties in the sea level budget are
on the order of 0.1 mm / year, that implies that the «latent heat» loss to space has to be some many times
less than what I first postulated.
Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research made this point powerfully last year in an important piece in the journal Nature Reports / Climate Change warning that more
uncertainty, not
less, would likely result from a push to enrich climate models used for the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change:
You say that this
uncertainty is used «to argue that environmental policies based
on concerns over global warming are not even worthy of support», but it seems to us that it is
less the case that your objection is based
on an argument made as much as the fact that they outlined a difference of opinion.
It puts you
on the right path, asking the right kinds of questions, taking the right kinds of first steps, and avoiding getting lost in the confusion, mistakenly thinking that
uncertainty means
less to worry about.
Bob D. wrote: «As long as the trend from global GISS is still positive for the last 10 years, what is all the fuss?It is still warming, the trend for the last 10 years may be
less that what the contributors to the IPCC predicted, but the
uncertainty for a 10 year trend is quite large n'est pas?Isn't that what you have been going
on about?»
However, Hegerl et al. (2001) show that inclusion of observational sampling
uncertainty has relatively little effect
on detection results and that random instrumental error has even
less effect.
We know from earlier work that
uncertainty is no cause for inaction —
on the contrary, greater scientific
uncertainty should make us worry more, not
less, about the potential consequences of climate change.
The random component will certainly be an important contribution to the
uncertainty if we want to know what the SST was at a particular point
on a particular day, but it will be
less important if we're looking at the trend in global average temperature.
They also are inclined to integrate the whole of the evidence for AGW as advocates for mitigation and be
less likely to dwell
on the
uncertainties of separate issues.
I've done this (
on different but similar data) and I find that the parameter
uncertainty is plus or minus a tenth of degree or
less.
In fact, forecasts for
less annual rainfall in years to come have cast
uncertainty on the very future of California and its rapidly growing human population.
But a point you raised gnawed at me, and I tentatively reached a result that is an argument for your point of view: if you start with our atmospheric pressure at ground level, the difference in kinetic energy Velasco et al. specify for an altitude difference of, say, 10 km would not be measurable with a time
uncertainty less than a second even in principle unless the gas - column width is
less than something
on the order of 100 nitrogen - molecule diameters across.
The SSTs should be free of UHI and much
less susceptible to
uncertainty due to lack of complete coverage, i.e. something we could hang our hats
on — then Steve M opens this can of worms.
On the other hand, investment subsidies and technology standards provide immediate incentives to change behaviour, and are
less sensitive to long ‐ term market
uncertainty.
On the cost side, at wind penetrations of up to 20 % of system peak demand, it has been found that system operating cost increases arising from wind variability and
uncertainty amounted to about 10 % or
less of the wholesale value of the wind energy [2].
Despite decades of persistent
uncertainty over how sensitive the climate system is to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, we now have new satellite evidence which strongly suggests that the climate system is much
less sensitive than is claimed by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC).
So, the Administration policy, egged
on by Lindzen citing supposed
uncertainties, is asking for greater certainty (actually, they mean higher confidence), but providing
less and
less funds for doing the necessary research.
Remove the 11 questionable reconstructions and you're left with a lot
less model
uncertainty; I expect that might be reduced further if they used the more appropriate inverse (proxies
on temperature) calibration.
The resulting estimates are
less dependent
on global climate models and allow more realistically for forcing
uncertainties than similar estimates based
on forcings diagnosed from simulations by such models.
Second, the
uncertainty of Anthro is substantially
less than the
uncertainty of the other four (including Natural forcings (Nat), and Internal Variability (Intern Var), which have an
uncertainty about that of Anthro, but centered
on, or very near zero) because their
uncertainties are not independent.
Note that quoteing the
less emphatic findings
on greenhouse gas contribution is misleading because there is a higher
uncertainty about the greenhouse gas contributions than about the total anthropogenic contributions as shown in Fig 10.5 and discussed extensively above.
Therefore, more priority should be placed
on reducing the
uncertainty in the Damage Function and
less on trying to improve the
uncertainty in the climate sensitivity.
In my opinion, the WORST aspect of this is that Judith Curry states unequivocally that «Our data show the pause,» which utterly ignores the extreme level of
uncertainty in temperature trends over periods as short as 10 years or
less, after she has so often indulged in self - righteous posturing
on her own blog about the «
uncertainty monster.»
energy budget is much
less dependent
on the shortwave scattering component which makes up the bulk of
uncertainty with cloud feedback.
Focusing
on these scientific
uncertainties and complexities may produce a
less familiar story, but a more revealing one.
Thereafter the agreement becomes increasingly
less certain and this increasing
uncertainty is indicated
on the graph by the graduated broken lines.
But as far as gryposaurus February 7, 2011 at 8:38 pm and dhogaza February 7, 2011 at 8:39 pm
on scientist climate scientists getting
uncertainty go read Trenberth, K. E., 2010: More knowledge,
less certainty.
They have focused
on looking at the warmer climates of the Cenozoic (the Pliocene, etc.) to avoid the confusion from the response of ice sheets to orbital forcing during the ice age cycles of the Pleistocene, but obviously have significant
uncertainties due to
less precision about ancient greenhouse gas levels.
The big issue with any election is
uncertainty, which is not good for business and, following the global political turmoil of the past few years, the public are
less certain
on opinion polls, so may be nervous of the outcome.
Interestingly, The Lawyer recently reported
on a study by career coach Edward Walker, which claims that lawyers are
less well - suited to coping with
uncertainty than other professionals.
The 2011 Gordon Osbaldeston Lecture — A Short History of the Erosion of Trust — Allan R. Gregg — From inauthenticity to an essay
on it: Gregg's target, though, is politics: «So even if we are now
less deferential to our traditional leaders, and more efficacious and cynical as individuals, it may also be that this cultural shift has rendered us more insecure and vulnerable to the larger
uncertainties that we can not control through technology and social media.»