To put it in perspective, if a website like Amazon were to increase their conversion
rate by a fraction of one percent, it would contribute millions of dollars in extra revenue each month.
So for a $ 200,000 mortgage, a point would cost $ 2,000, and buying the point would generally lower your interest
rate by a fraction of a percentage point.
Wealthier Democrats («limousine liberals») have the luxury of being able to care passionately about solving the problem, whether or not it slows economic growth
rates by a fraction.
Not exact matches
Moreover, the
rate of growth in the
fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run
by women has been higher than the
rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.
Holographic video has been held back
by requirements for ultrafine screen resolutions and staggering data
rates — a crisp, moving, holographic image can burn through terabytes of data in a
fraction of a second.
Because nominal wage growth for a large
fraction of workers has been held to zero, a somewhat higher
rate of inflation would grease the wheels of the labor market
by allowing real wages to fall (Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry 1996).
But a large
fraction of the Reserves has been «sterilized»
by the device of this trivial interest
rate paid on them.
Any external upward pressure on interest
rates beyond a
fraction of a percent will have to be rapidly offset
by a large reduction in the outstanding monetary base in order to avoid a deterioration in the value of money relative to goods and services (i.e. inflation).
Without hiking the amount that the Fed pays banks to hold idle bank reserves, the Fed would have to contract its balance sheet
by about $ 1.4 trillion before market forces would raise
rates even to a
fraction of 1 %.
Apple, for example, pays taxes at a small
fraction of that
rate on its offshore profits, according to calculations
by The Times based on the company's securities filings.
It's the absence of productive real investment, which since 2000 has slumped to a small
fraction of its historical growth
rate, along with the encouragement of rank yield - seeking speculation
by the Fed, that has repeatedly injured the U.S. economy, and is likely to insult the economy with further crises before any durable lessons are learned.
List - building is usually a game of incremental victories and losses — trench warfare, not blitzkrieg — and cutting your loss
rate by even a small
fraction helps.
The tax cut for middle - class wage earners amounts to a
fraction of 1 percentage point and will be funded
by an increase in the
rate for married taxpayers making more than $ 2 million a year and single taxpayers whose yearly income exceeds $ 1 million.
The overwhelming
fraction of undergraduate science courses are taught
by a professor lecturing to students, even in the face of many hundreds of studies showing that alternative teaching methods demonstrate much greater student learning and lower failure
rates.
«A very surprising
fraction of the amount of variation in the death
rate is explained
by one single variable — namely, income per capita.»
Flow cytometric technique provides a method for assessing the cells nuclear DNA content and proliferation
rate by using the value of S - phase
fraction (SPF)[12].
Adding latrines also decreased dropout
rates, reducing the
fraction of students who dropped out
by 5.3 percentage points in the middle schools and
by 12.2 percentage points in primary schools.
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«For unit
rate they've been seeing whole numbers and basic
fractions; but the first three questions on that standard [from the assessment] are
fractions divided
by fractions.
The incidence of teacher absences is regressive: when schools are ranked
by the
fraction of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch, schools in the poorest quartile averaged almost one extra sick day per teacher than schools in the highest income quartile, and schools with persistently high
rates of teacher absence were much more likely to serve low - income than high - income students.
When you withdraw at a
rate WR with an interest rate of r and a TIPS Equivalent Safe Withdrawal Rate of TESWR at year N, the remaining fraction rf, which is the balance at year N and the initial balance, is given by this equation: rf = [TESWR — WR] / [TESWR — r] Here are some examples when r is 2 % and N = 10 or 20 ye
rate WR with an interest
rate of r and a TIPS Equivalent Safe Withdrawal Rate of TESWR at year N, the remaining fraction rf, which is the balance at year N and the initial balance, is given by this equation: rf = [TESWR — WR] / [TESWR — r] Here are some examples when r is 2 % and N = 10 or 20 ye
rate of r and a TIPS Equivalent Safe Withdrawal
Rate of TESWR at year N, the remaining fraction rf, which is the balance at year N and the initial balance, is given by this equation: rf = [TESWR — WR] / [TESWR — r] Here are some examples when r is 2 % and N = 10 or 20 ye
Rate of TESWR at year N, the remaining
fraction rf, which is the balance at year N and the initial balance, is given
by this equation: rf = [TESWR — WR] / [TESWR — r] Here are some examples when r is 2 % and N = 10 or 20 years.
The annuity increases your withdrawal amount
by the negative Safe Withdrawal
Rate formula times the
fraction of you initial investment that you use for buying the annuity.
pv is the present value of the loan c is the periodic repayment amount r is the periodic interest
rate n is the number of periods x is the
fraction of a period
by which the first period...
A plain and simple rule like that will block the efforts of lobbyists, lawyers and contribution - hungry legislators to keep the ultrarich paying
rates well below those incurred
by people with income just a tiny
fraction of ours.
Your interest
rates can get significantly reduced with consumer credit counseling, sometimes from 30 % down to 8 %, or if you have an extreme hardship you may get your balances settled for a
fraction of what's owed, or debt validation will ensure your creditors are reporting accurate information on your credit and abiding
by all the federal laws.
Although credit cards for bad credit tend to have high APRs compared to other credit cards on the market, those 25 % to 35 % interest
rates are often a small
fraction of the fees charged
by cash advances.
The idea that you could ever replace the
rate of utilization of energy from fossil fuels, which has been estimated as consuming 400 years worth of photosynthesis per year, with a
fraction of the annual photosynthetic harvest that does not impinge on food production is part of today's magical thinking, along with reducing deficits
by cutting taxes while continuing to increase spending.
At faster emission growth
rates and in warmer temperatures, the
fraction absorbed
by the earth drops, so it becomes more linear.
Yes, the same amount of energy has to get out into space at the same
rate, over the long term, but the absorption
by greenhouse gases requires the surface temperature to be higher in order to radiate at a sufficiently higher
rate (than would otherwise be the case) to make up for the
fraction absorbed.
In the UK we recently had a scandal where bankers were found to have been fixing an interest
rate figure called Libor
by a
fraction of a percent.
(This is setting aside oxidation of organic C that has settled to the seafloor; there is a significant amount (about 50 times the marine biota) but the flux is very slow — the total C added to the sea floor each year is about 0.2 Gt, which is a tiny
fraction of the 50 Gt cycled through marine biota; even if that were all organic C (I think it is actually mostly inorganic), the
rate of oxydation of organic C in the ocean would still have to be almost equal to the
rate of organic C production, which is the approximation I used before in calculating the
rate of O2 uptake
by that process.
We can estimate the potential magnitude of the ice mass biases
by noting that if the average velocity prediction bias of ~ 5 mm / yr evident in Figure 5 is developed over ~ 2 × 10 ^ 6 km2, an area somewhat smaller than that of West Antarctica, this would cause an apparent but spurious ice loss of ~ 33 Gt yr - 1, which is a significant
fraction of all published ice mass
rates derived from GRACE [Velicogna and Wahr, 2006; Chen et al., 2006; Ramillien et al., 2006; Sasgen et al., 2007a].
Globally, the utilization
rate (defined as the
fraction of fibre feedstock supplied
by recovered fibre) was about 44 % in 2004 (IEA, 2006a).
Although the interest
rate has been decimated from 10 % to a small
fraction by the legislature, rendering prejudgement interest not as useful to keep big insurance in check.
A simple Google search for «file for divorce» reveals an abundance of online software companies and «non-lawyer» document preparation services advertising
rates that are a mere
fraction of typical legal fees charged
by an attorney.
We are charging a
fraction of our normal hourly
rate to give you critical feedback about your federal resume, provided
by a former federal Human Resources Specialist!
That
fraction, called the residential assessment
rate is recalculated regularly
by the state.
This Activity Sleep and Heart -
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by monitoring daily activity, calorie consumption and distance covered.