Sentences with phrase «optimistic assumptions»

The comptroller says the budget is based on overly optimistic assumptions about revenues the city is counting on.

Not only were the previous withdrawal rates based on overly optimistic assumptions for portfolio returns in today's low interest - rate world.

Even under optimistic assumptions about timing and baseline scenarios, it's clear that little if any large - scale production of biofuels or biomass anywhere in the world even approaches carbon - neutrality.

Most analyses use models that have very optimistic assumptions about the implementation of carbon pricing globally and the availability of key technologies like carbon capture and storage.

Even on the basis of wildly optimistic assumptions about improvement in the quality of teachers, the quality - based wage declined by 6 percent for women and 3 percent for men.

Looks like they've never made money and the fairness report seems to use some fairly optimistic assumptions regarding future earnings.

Based on fairly optimistic assumptions about technology progress and cost reductions, electric and fuel cell vehicles are expected to cost around USD 6 500 more in 2050 than conventional vehicles.

The measures discussed above don't require optimistic assumptions about a quick recovery in profit margins.

Under optimistic assumptions, maybe you can earn 4 % on your money without touching the principal.

Yes the example I've given is a bad investment with overly optimistic assumptions.

This has led some homeowners to take out loans larger than they could afford based on overly - optimistic assumptions about the future performance of the housing market.

«That's true under even the most optimistic assumptions for clean technology advancements in vehicles and power plants,» said study lead author Sarang Supekar, a mechanical engineering postdoctoral fellow at U-M.

Much of this was created by optimistic assumptions of what could be earned from equities over the long run, much of which is now being slowly repudiated, as markets fail to live up to expectations.

On three - quarters of the world's land, PV systems today can generate more than 100 times the useable energy per hectare than bioenergy is likely to produce in the future even using optimistic assumptions.

«The Russian budget now is including $ 100 per barrel for the next three years and some more optimistic assumptions on economic growth, which are probably over-optimistic,» Guriev, who is currently a professor of Economics at Sciences Po, a French public research and higher education institution, told CNBC at the UBS European Conference in London.

To my mind, to go below 2 percent measured inflation as currently calculated requires highly optimistic assumption about tax benefits and sacrifice ratios.»

The most optimistic assumption by the Tax Foundation estimated that even with new growth, the bill would increase the deficit by $ 448 billion over 10 years.

If legislators enact a budget that relies on what we view as optimistic assumptions or one - time sources, we would likely lower the rating.

We correctly estimated at the time that the 10 - year total return of the S&P 500 was likely to be negative even with optimistic assumptions about the valuations that might prevail at the end of that 10 - year period.

The problem is when investors adopt theories and models that embed the most optimistic assumptions possible, run contrary to historical evidence, or embed subtle peculiarities that actually drive the results (see, for example, the «novel valuation measures» section of The Diva is Already Singing).

Even so, only optimistic assumptions and Hong Kong's tech fever can justify the eye - popping valuation.

No justification for theses optimistic assumptions has been given.

The team introduced various optimistic assumptions, including a carbon price of $ 573 per ton and a material extraction tax, and assumed rapid technological innovation.

In a note he wrote to himself as he drafted the final opinion and looked to its aftermath, Blackmun revealed a rather optimistic assumption: «It will be an unsettled period for a while.»

Plots assume optimistic assumptions for missing trait information.

Bear markets reveal optimistic assumptions and accounting chicanery.

In an echo of Campbell's reckless optimism in 2006, the 2014 plan was also based on a host of what the attorney general calls «unrealistically optimistic assumptions», including the idea that new contributions to the endowment would pour in at unprecedented levels, despite the fact that large numbers of students, faculty, and alumni were up in arms at the end of free tuition, and were less likely than ever to support Bharucha's administration.

Using many optimistic assumptions about technology developments and energy efficiency, they estimated that the cost:

In the case of Energy [R] evolution there are, unsurprisingly, a fair few pro-renewable assumptions, not to mention optimistic assumptions about technology and a fixed ambitious target for carbon - dioxide emissions in 2050.

It is about students believing the law degree guarantees lucrative employment — and law schools doing little to temper those unduly optimistic assumptions.

«Even under optimistic assumptions regarding corals being able to rapidly adapt to thermal stress, one - third (9 to 60 %, 68 % uncertainty range) of the world's coral reefs are projected to be subject to long - term degradation (next few decades) under the RCP3 - PD scenario (Frieler et al., 2013).

As a result, relying on Ramsey's likely overly optimistic assumptions of 12 % compounded returns in mutual funds, and 8 % annual withdrawals, may prove to be a bad approach to your retirement planning, particularly if you take into account taxes.

Using more optimistic assumptions about the fiscal multiplier effect and spending plans, we could see this rising to 0.7 %.

At the peak of the real estate bubble in 2006 and 2007, some deals were done at even lower rates: for instance, New York City's Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment buildings sold at a cap rate of 3.1 % based on highly optimistic assumptions.

We are concerned that the Board and its advisors are utilizing overly optimistic assumptions regarding Optima's ultimate market share gains and consequently embracing an intrinsic value which is not achievable.

Why do they present plans that contain wildly optimistic assumptions about the peak in global emissions and yet a high probability of overshooting the 2 degrees C target?

On most of the world's land, PV systems today can generate more than 100 times the useable energy per hectare than bioenergy is likely to produce in the future even using optimistic assumptions.

This is a very very optimistic assumption and while Ben wrigglesworth found Mahrez and Kante and they have indeed become champions, we have found in the past equally potentially talented youngsters (re previous article Wellington Silva) and Guess what??? we have offloaded almost all of them and there have been NO real world class players who have gone on to win anything.

«There is no doubt that battery prices are falling, but even if we make some fairly optimistic assumptions about performance, prices would have to fall by another 50 % just to break even.

Even with optimistic assumption about the peak year for global emissions and rates of emissions reductions thereafter, the best estimate is for warming to reach 4 °C in the 2070s or 2080s, well within the life - spans of children born today.

But the government projects it will surge 4.2 per cent annually on average from now until 2021, «led by strong U.S. demand» That may prove to be an overly optimistic assumption.