Sentences with phrase «more real dollars»

In other words, the federal government is today spending nearly 50 per cent more real dollars per citizen than it did a decade ago.

Not exact matches

The rupee joins the rupiah (which had fallen more than 13 % against the U.S. dollar as of August), and Brazil's real in a spate of tough economic times for developing nations, particularly those with large current account deficits.

You're probably not going to get more than 50 cents to a dollar per item as far as real earnings.»

In fact, a million - dollar home in Dallas is more than twice the size of a similarly priced house in Los Angeles, according to real estate listing site Trulia.

I think old - school tactics like the Three Cs of sales, pushy car salesman stuff doesn't work any more, especially not if you're selling a lifestyle or a dream, or millions or billions of dollars of real estate.

His statement followed one of the most chaotic sessions for the country's financial markets since the global financial crisis, with stocks on its benchmark Ibovespa falling more than 8 % and the real plunging 7.5 % against the U.S. dollar, the most since 1999, despite the intervention of the central bank of Brazil.

The problem is that the bankers» solution — the inevitable result of Mr. Greenspan's policy of shifting central planning onto Wall Street — is that it will culminate in the anarchy of debt deflation, deepening unemployment, more real estate foreclosures, and capital flight out of the dollar.

So Europeans and Asians see U.S. companies pumping more and more dollars into their economies, not only to buy their exports in excess of providing them with goods and services in return, and not only to buy their companies and commanding heights of privatized public enterprises without giving them reciprocal rights to buy important U.S. companies (remember the U.S. turn - down of Chinas attempt to buy into the U.S. oil distribution business), and not only to buy foreign stocks, bonds and real estate.

Ultimately, we see the dollar weakening against the euro as real rates in the Euro Zone become more positive and strengthen versus the yen because inflation in Japan is picking up due to accelerating wage growth.

Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs in March and capped their third straight quarterly gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases in 2018 than previously projected.

«The problem is, when you have no real purpose for your money other than chasing a lifestyle, you end up using every extra dollar you earn in the pursuit of more.»

SYDNEY, May 3 (Reuters)- Asian shares slipped on Thursday as hopes waned for real progress in Sino-U.S. trade talks, while the U.S. dollar consolidated recent bumper gains after the Federal Reserve reaffirmed the outlook for more rate hikes.

But it does mean foreigners have more dollars to buy U.S. real estate, which makes foreign investment more likely.

But there's more to it than that, because the size of the Fed's footprint is ultimately determined, not by the dollar - value of the Fed's assets, but by the real demand for its liabilities.

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Measured in real dollars per capita — the more meaningful gauge — it will be 12 per cent higher.

That said, I would be more bearish on the US Dollar if it had some real competition.

Before now, a gold bear market persisted not because the metal had lost its status necessarily, but because of the strong U.S. dollar and, more significantly, positive real interest rates.

As Vancouver and Toronto continue to mull over the positive and negatives of real estate investment from international buyers, Alberta is happily embracing Chinese buyer dollars, reports The Globe and... Read more >

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The most important fundamental data (i.e., the ones that are currently most closely correlated to gold prices) have actually slightly improved since we last discussed them (they're still in more or less neutral ranges, but slightly better — such as real interest rates, the relative performance of bank stocks vs. the SPX or the US dollar...).

But it is more important to make a statement with little real value and kiss a few million dollars in palm frond sales goodbye.

And then there is the game in the stock exchanges of the financial markets, global speculation, more than 2,000 billion dollars is exchanged every day and scarcely 5 % represents the real economy.

Are we more secure for spending a trillion + dollars (nobody knows the real figures!)

Mansion Tax is imposed on each conveyance of residential real property when the consideration for the entire conveyance is one million dollars or more and the premises is being used in whole or in part as a one, two or three family house, or a condominium.

In this conversation, she describes her «Green New Deal» platform, explains why she thinks that spending more public dollars could actually lower the nation's debt in the long run, and contends that only the Greens are offering real solutions to the environmental challenges facing the nation and the world.

With a vast real estate empire and a billion - dollar art collection to divide, one of the more salacious details to emerge from their split was that Harry's then - girlfriend (and now fiancée) was living at 737 Park Avenue — his condo conversion several years in the making that's only now -LSB-...]... [more]

That's hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more, that could power media, GOTV and other facets of a real campaign.

When employment figures begin going up, and real affordable universal health care is soon to be available, and wasteful Bush fantasies like Star Wars are back to being experimental programs on the fringes of public awareness and costing only hundreds of millions of dollars a year, when all of our long term allies are back to being on speaking terms with us, those 25 % ers will get their 25 % s and Congress will be even more democratic Party than now.

According to the indictment, Skelos supposedly persuaded a New York real - estate executive to pay commissions to Adam, helped Adam get a consulting job for which he was unqualified at an environmental firm, used his office to help the firm get a multimillion - dollar government contract, and leaned on the pollution - control company to pay his son more or risk losing Skelos's support for the contract bid.

Before going into public service, Cuomo was making more than a million dollars a year as an advisor to a real estate mogul.

The price of rotors has fallen tremendously in inflated dollars and more so in real dollars.

He told The Real Deal he would like to make the city more business - friendly, complaining that his company's delivery trucks incur thousands of dollars in parking and traffic tickets near his warehouse in Hunts Point, and that regulations should be eased on large employers.

A group of scientists in the future far, far away may be able to design and develop a real - life Millennium Falcon with a hyperdrive that could take us beyond the limits of our solar system - one that would probably cost us a hundred years of research and more than trillions of dollars.

Just more proof that people who know what they're talking about (like nurses and other REAL health professionals) recommend a healthy, sustainable approach to nutrition instead of trendy, pointless things like juice fasts that cost hundreds of dollars.

Now trust me, even at $ 129.99 — which I'll admit is a far cry from the $ 1,350 price tag of the real deal — I was still hesitant to shell out more than a hundred dollars to a website I have never ordered from, knew nothing about, and in the hopes that the boots didn't look totally cheap.

And I know I already have a reputation here as someone who cares more about pork chops than the Oscars, but out in the real world people still put stock in them so it'd be a nice pat on the back for these billion - dollar industry ambassadors to get a little recognition for their efforts.

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Hamm's character, J.B. Bernstein, is a real person, and the plot of Million Dollar Arm — which is based on Bernstein's involvement with a reality TV competition in India to find pitchers and turn them into MLB prospects — is more or less true.

It's true that New York charters get several thousand dollars less in operating funds per student than the city's district schools do — and, even more important, they do not get separate capital funding for facilities in Gotham's extremely pricey real - estate market.

According to the goals outlined by the district's multi-million dollar Secondary Schools Reform plan, the academies will offer more personalized instruction to students and will give students more chances to apply academic concepts to the real world.

There are no efficiencies, economies, or new qualities to be found in «design breakthroughs»; greater spending is the only way to improve education (disregard more or less flat education results after two decades of real - dollar annual spending increases).

More importantly, the policy effort would increase the real dollars available to support students without an increase in overall spending, and these dollars would be available to increase services targeted toward low - income schools that improve outcomes for low - achieving students.

And it's even more difficult when the Mayor, the City Council, the current Schools Chancellor and the city's leading newspaper do not have any real interest in knowing whether principals and teachers received hundreds of thousands of dollars in undeserved bonuses, or whether hundreds of children were inappropriately promoted or denied remedial attention, or whether their school system's dramatic improvement was a hoax and a lie.

While leaving Connecticut's real public schools without sufficient funds, Malloy and Democratic legislators approved a deal to divert more than $ 100 million dollars this year to the companies that operate Connecticut's charter schools.

In real inflation - adjusted dollars, California spends $ 27 billion more a year than it did in 1970, when the current National Assessment of Educational Progress exam began.

Now more and more Connecticut parents are learning just how standardized tests are being misused and how the education reform movement is diverting millions of dollars and thousands of hours away from real leaning.

With $ 30,000 in «Dark Money» from a New York - based entity called Real Reform Now Network and thousands more from Connecticut's deep - pocketed charter school players, a political action committee in Connecticut is funneling tens of thousands of dollars into its effort to promote the election of a handful of candidates running for the Connecticut General Assembly.

Without real pension reform, hundreds of schools across those districts may have to cut programs, increase class sizes or lay off teachers as more and more new state dollars are directed away from operations toward retirements.