Sentences with phrase «other than inflation»

If interest rates rise due to reasons other than inflation (for example, due to changes in currency exchange rates), investors in these securities may not be protected to the extent that the increase is not reflected in the bond's inflation measure.

If they want room for short term rates above 0 they will have to get long term rates up and I don't see any control input other than the inflation target to move them.

Not exact matches

«Prospects for renewed gains, other than a relief rally following the election results, would require somewhat larger wage increases and continued job growth as well as the maintenance of low inflation.»

Retirees also tend to spend more on housing than other groups, and cost increases in that sector have slightly outpaced inflation, the study found.

The market is focusing on inflation, but it's missing other signs a rate hike could happen sooner than it expects, Mohamed El - Erian said.

Other than that, it's the, well, we're moving now into a period where we're essentially where we would like to be: inflation at 2 % — full employment, over full employment.

debt obligations of the U.S. government that are issued at various intervals and with various maturities; revenue from these bonds is used to raise capital and / or refund outstanding debt; since Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, they are generally considered to be free from credit risk and thus typically carry lower yields than other securities; the interest paid by Treasuries is exempt from state and local tax, but is subject to federal taxes and may be subject to the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT); U.S. Treasury securities include Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, zero - coupon bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and Treasury Auctions

In fact, if I were RS, I'd worry more about financial and other sectoral (housing) bubbles ending expansions more than I'd worry about full employment driving wage - push inflation.

Within program expenses, major transfers to persons were up $ 1.1 billion, primarily due to higher old age security payments, reflecting an increase in the number of recipients and higher inflation, as benefits are indexed to quarterly changes in the consumer price index, major transfers to other levels of government were up $ 0.6 billion, reflecting legislative increases; while direct program expenses declined by $ 0.2 billion, as lower «other transfer» payments more than offset increases in departmental / agency operating costs.

However, the intent of this language is that the target is a «thick point» rather than a range, or in other words, the desirable rate of inflation for the Australian economy is «2 point something» (Stevens and Debelle 1995).

Before discussing the asset price issue, again it is worth repeating that the issue is whether inflation targeting itself led to monetary policy settings being easier than would have been the case in other frameworks.

In other words, the median asking rent is $ 184 higher today than it would be if rental rates had risen only as fast as inflation over the past two decades.

Sometimes, inflation has been a bit higher than expected, other times a bit lower.

Other than the recent housing bubble, real estate is a relatively safe asset class that appreciates along with inflation and the economy.

«On a 12 - month basis, both overall inflation and inflation for items other than food and energy have moved close to 2 percent,» the Fed's statement said.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Investing in currency involves additional special risks such as credit, interest rate fluctuations, derivative investment risk, and domestic and foreign inflation rates, which can be volatile and may be less liquid than other securities and more sensitive to the effect of varied economic conditions.

As readers of PAR's holiday card may have noted, I now view cash the way Buffett's biographer believes Buffett views it: Cash is an option on thousands of companies and each option has no strike price, no expiration date, and no premium cost other than the lost purchasing power due to inflation.

Australia, for example, recorded more sustained growth in employment in the 1980s than any other OECD country, but generally higher inflation.

This measure has typically been more volatile than other underlying measures, for example showing a higher peak in inflation (adjusted for the effects of tax changes) in 2001.

As we have witnessed since April 2009, the central banks around the globe have created more credit (counterfeit «money») than in any other period in history and now that inflation is starting to once again emerge, they are threatening to raise interest rates to get ahead of the curve.

This is not unlike the dilemma facing many retirees and other individual investors: holding ultra-safe interest - bearing investments is wise past a certain age; yet when yields are lower than the inflation rate, this strategy erodes buying power and undermines long - term financial security.

Other English - speaking countries with a long - term history of high inflation — such as Canada, the UK and New Zealand — also have long - term real interest rates higher than the average.

In addition, many companies in those lands financed their domestic businesses by borrowing Swiss francs, euros and other hard currencies at lower rates than in their own inflation - prone countries.

Neither light reading nor cheap (it's hard to find online for less than about $ 75), this book is the most thoughtful and objective analysis of the long - term returns on stocks, bonds, cash and inflation available anywhere, purged of the pom - pom waving and statistical biases that contaminate other books on the subject.

It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light within less than a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second — less than 10 ^ -35 of a second — of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity but never detected before — of the Inflation of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.

This discovery is superior to the current redshift — hence the Doppler Effect — approach of detecting the expansion of the universe, since some scientists speculate that other unknown reasons can cause the redshift while Gravitational Waves are unique to the Inflation of the Universe — expansion at faster than the speed of light at the beginning.

Um pesonal experiments sorry nobody gave him 150million pounds to sign eonaldo or messi or 100 million pounds to sign a player oh plus another 400million to fill out the other ten sorry he was given ants and has still won our record signing 55million i mean other teams are able to spend more on bench sore pine slivered second strings than hes been on starters over the years and hes still won only manager invincible oh and then when the other clubs new we were low on cash and winning started injuring our star players and do nt say it does nt happen cause it does um he still won whole given ants to spend hes done amazing extend please one or to bad seasons compared to twenty great seasons and had our strikers finished their chances this year in 5 or six key matches we'd be sitting pretty reall only 3 or two and a draw or saw and we'd be sittingin the thick of itextend now that the board an owner are willing to spend snails for him finally atleast a little more than ants cause of inflation

But higher world prices can not explain why over the last three years the UK has had a higher inflation rate than every other G7 country.

But the rise in oil and commodity prices pushed up inflation in the UK more than in other countries, demonstrating the downsides of a policy of deliberate devaluation to which much of the British economic policy establishment remains committed as an article of faith, despite little evidence that it has done much long term good.

Aides to Cuomo, on the other hand, said the cap in its current form has succeeded in curbing growth in school taxes that used to increase regularly each year by more than twice the rate of inflation.

Miliband says we have the highest inflation of any EU country other than Estonia.

The previous Labour government gave an undertaken not to review the # 3,000 cap until 2009 at the earliest, and to permit increases above this level, other than raising it in line with inflation, only with the approval of both Houses of Parliament.

MTA's Prendergast said no MTA fare hikes, other than those normally indexed to inflation, would be required.

Under rent regulation, the maximum rent for an apartment can increase no more than a certain percent every year, based on inflation, improvements to the building or apartment, as well as other costs.

It would allow schools, counties, towns, cities and other local governments outside New York City to raise their property taxes by no more than 2 % a year or the inflation rate, whichever is lower.

Ehrhardt says he believes that the decline in NIH - funded studies can be traced to two things: Flat NIH funding (the 2014 budget was 14 percent less than in 2006, after adjusting for inflation) and greater competition for these limited dollars from other, relatively new research areas such as genomic research or personalized medicine studies.

Although the findings don't rule out traditional inflation theories, they do open the door for other theories about how the universe began, including the idea that the universe began with a splat rather than a bang (ScienceNOW, 9 April 2001).

Well, in fact it is a generic feature of inflation, more generic than many other things, in fact, I've argued for 20 years it's the most generic feature that we should look for.

If it is smaller than 1 [percent], another might be right, but then just to add and as I often try and do, I muddy the water, we've also argued recently that, unfortunately, there are other mechanisms in the early universe that could also produce a gravitational wave signal that would mimic that due to inflation.

«[A] ssuming roughly current funding patterns, research funding adjusted for inflation would reach its lowest levels since 2002,» the fact sheet notes, «other than when sequestration was in full effect in 2013.»

This may suggest that more than one radius - inflation mechanism is at work for Kepler - 12b, or that it is less heavy - element rich than other transiting planets.

West Virginia also did better than most other states in keeping spending above the rate of inflation from 1992 to 2002, with an average annual increase of 2.7 percent.

I explain that 25 years of research has shown that score inflation is common, that it is often very large, and that the limited research on its distribution suggests that both inflation and bad test preparation affect disadvantaged students more than others.

This includes actions such as test papers being incorrectly opened, pupils cheating, over-aiding of pupils by test administrators, changes being made to a pupil's test script by someone other than the pupil or «inflation / deflation of teacher assessment judgements».

Examining data on more than 15,000 children born between 1955 and 1985, it found that poor children whose schools were estimated to receive and maintain a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending (adjusted for inflation) before they began their 12 years of public school were 10 percentage points more likely to complete high school than other poor children.

Florida and 28 other states are spending less on education now than they were before the 2008 recession after an adjustment for inflation, according to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Meanwhile, the tuition inflation that all that fuels appears likely to scare low - income people away from higher education more than any other group.

The other three states increases in education therefore are marginal, with two of the states — Nevada and Indiana — raising education budgets less than 2 %, which when one includes inflation, isn't an increase at all.

With an average annual salary of slightly more than $ 36,000 for new teachers and slightly more than $ 58,000 overall, most teachers are compensated less than they were 30 years ago, when adjusting for inflation.69 In addition, teachers earn 60 percent of what similarly educated professionals earn, which is much lower than in other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries.70 This has made it harder for schools to attract young people to the teaching profession and for high - need schools to attract excellent teachers.