Sentences with phrase «likely point of no return»

Even if we were to scale back a little, matching the recent average growth rate of 1.92 ppm / year, that puts us at 450 ppm around the year 2042 — 450 ppm signifying the likely point of no return, when the climate will trigger anywhere from 2 - 5 degrees centigrade bump in global temperatures.

Not exact matches

Amid fresh reports that Canadians have finally «got the message» and are trimming consumption and debt, it seems likely we're already past the point of no return.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

They also warn that because of extended zero - interest policy by the Fed, security valuations have advanced to the point where prospective nominal total returns on a conventional portfolio mix are likely to average well below 2 % annually, with negative real returns, over the coming 12 - year period.

Diversification strategies appeared to have «worked» during the golden years of the 1980s and 1990s, simply because US stock markets were returning 17 % to 18 % every year on average during those two decades and Stevie Wonder could have pointed to a bunch of stocks from a newspaper listing the components of the US S&P 500 during that period and likely would have fared very well.

Conflicts of interest likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on the retirement savings of middle - class families, according to a recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

Because freezing inevitably degrades food's quality over time, starting out with a questionable product is just asking for trouble: By the time you thaw and unwrap that fish, ground turkey, or milk, it'll likely be past the point of no return — and you'll probably wind up tossing it anyway.

One of the Terrapins» two touchdowns came on a 100 - yard kickoff return by sophomore William Likely, though that only cut Stanford's lead to 28 points in the fourth quarter.

Lucas Perez is likely to leave Arsenal for # 13 since teams are failing to meet the asking price.Arsenal want to also offload Jenkinson and Gibbs before the window shuts.He wants a return to Spain actually.Jadon Sancho deal is done.Lemar deal is still on but it's all the fault of Monaco and Arsenal at a point who have been stubborn.Still no news on a CM though genuine interest is held in the likes of Seri and Jankto.

I think, however, that if we are raising our children with empathy from the very beginning, starting with birth, we are less likely to get to the point of no return and have to resort to spanking.

Yet, both the «nuclear» option of cutting assistance for good and the «wait - and - see» option might similarly lead to a point of «no return» for Moldovan rapprochement with the EU considering the likely outcome of the November 2018 elections.

The data also suggest, however, that the accountability movement has likely reached a point of diminishing (or perhaps even no) returns.

Many of us had witnessed a «feature» (one I maintain was likely unintended) where books that went free and received a lot of downloads leaped up the paid sales charts when they returned to their usual price point.

A move of five percentage points would now require a 50 % return or a 50 % loss, both of which aren't likely to happen very often.

From my vantage point, oil is likely to stabilize and inflation could return to more normal levels in the back half of 2015, pushing inflation expectations to come up from today's very low levels.

But the point is this: If returns do come in lower than in the past — which seems likely given the current low level of interest rates — the more you stick to low - cost index funds and ETFs, the better the shot that you'll have at accumulating the savings you'll need to maintain your standard of living in retirement, and the more likely your savings will last at least as long as you do.

My point is simply that it's very likely that if you are moving money in and out of stocks based on volatility, you're much less likely to get the full market return over the long term, and might be better off putting more weight in asset classes with lower volatility.

All of this is to point out that reaching for massive returns on every trade is not worth the risk of losses when a steady options - based strategy can earn you a retirement that is likely to begin more than 10 years earlier than over 90 % of the population.

There are plenty of other smart moves that investors can make to boost their lifetime returns, but if you act on one or more of these three suggestions, you'll likely add more than a half percentage point to your return.

Balancing all of this out over the long - term, wherever your entry point may be when averaged out, will most likely have less impact on your returns than the other three components of this section.

... The key point of this article is that relying solely on a passive strategic portfolio designed to produce near - benchmark returns in a secular bear market will do nothing but guarantee that clients will underperform long - term expectations for an extended period of time and make it likely that they will fail to achieve their financial planning goals.

Credit card point churning is not for the faint of heart — and if you really want to try it, sooner rather than later is likely your best option for maximum return.

Given such a high discount rate, there's no point in saving, because no investment is likely to have such a high rate of return.

So each dollar that Buy - and - Holders put in stocks was likely to cost them 5 percentage points of return for each of 10 years running.

At that point, the national animal rescue and sheltering organizations would obediently strike their tents and leave, turning custody of the disaster - affected animals in their care back to local animal control agencies, who would hold them for return to their owners or adoption or, a more likely scenario, would eventually have them killed.

Two of the most common ways to lose rewards are returning an item, in which case you likely will lose the points, miles or cash back earned on that purchase, or by closing a card before using or transferring your points.

While it's natural for a Kirby game to not have challenge as one of its selling points, Return to Dream Land is likely the hardest game in the series (though that's not saying much).

It's also crazy destructive to, let's say, preventing it or at least slowing it down, which is much more likely the case given our 20th Century slide past the point of no return.

Now today, 2018 is critical and the next couple of years as well are far above «truly critical» tipping point of no return — that «battle / argument» has already been lost with the most likely outcome being inaction, denial and ongoing minimisation by those with the only institutional political power to engender change leaving nothing much more and a reliance on a forlorn unrealistic impractical hope» alone.

Talk of a tipping point, a point - of - no - return, etc. is only too likely to encourage this fallacy.

If inflation rises to 3 percent by 2015, which is more likely than not, mortgage rates will have to rise by a full percentage point to compensate lenders for the loss in purchasing power of the money returned to them.

«Before we see that expected pullback in square footage and price, we're going to have to see a significant return of the first - time buyer,» who is more likely to buy a smaller home at a lower price point, Quint says.

Mortgage Rate Predictions for 2015 Several months ago, James Bullard of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis predicted that interest rates will rise in quarter one of 2015, at which point we can likely expect mortgage rates to return to pre-recession levels as well — around the 6 percent mark last seen in 2006.