Sentences with phrase «so pointed this year»

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These days, I've gotten to a weird point, where — I mean, I've been doing it for like, seven years, so I sometimes feel like I have nothing left to say.

It's also important to remember that funding comes in at the end of the four year competition, if you win — so it's up to competing teams to fund their entries up to that point.

At one point, the game's outsourced code became so problematic that they had to scrap the whole thing, which delayed the launch by a year.

He points out so far there hasn't been «an avalanche of cases,» and that only about 12 were launched in the past two years.

Triggertrap has decided to do things a bit differently in 2015, designing a new four - point approach to vacations that significantly tweaks the simple «no tracking time off» policy that didn't work so well last year.

And so whether the 10 - year Treasury belongs at 2.7 or 3.1, it's close enough at this point.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

So while the time for VIX to fall back to 15 has, in the post-financial-crisis era, shortened compared with what was seen before and during the crisis, history still points to the likelihood that volatility will remain above what was seen in recent years.

Larson ranks second this year after being docked points by NASCAR for a violation on his car, but at this rate, he's at the front of the pack so often he has to be considered the favorite to win his first Cup.

KERNEN: So the year, all these things that you have pointed out.

«So as a consumer, I guess next year will not be a pleasant year from a purchasing point of view because you'll probably be seeing some inflation in all likelihood,» he said.

The Fed is trying to raise interest rates 25 basis points, four times a year every March, June, September, and December through 2019 to get to 3.5 % or so and bring down the balance sheet.

The issue of bond market liquidity has been a consistent theme over the past years or so with financial executives such as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks weighing in on the issue and generally pointing the finger at a lack of liquidity exasperating moves in financial markets.

Though podcasting has been around for over a decade, 2016 was probably the year of the podcast, with so many great ones hitting high points, with more and more terrific luminaries joining the medium.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

Even so, new projections released by the Fed show that officials expect three quarter - point rate hikes next year, one more than was forecast in the September projections.

But then as GQ pointed out, over the last year or so...

The Shanghai composite index is down 6 % so far in 2012 (as of mid-September) and at its lowest point in three years.

At this point, Dyson decided to go and work at his father's enterprise, and over the course of two years, he worked on a project from concept to just before manufacture - but it never went into production, because, as Dyson remembers it, it was too contemporary for the time (and it may be still be so today, he adds).

The study takes as its starting point a frightening statistic - the suicide rate for teen girls has doubled in the last ten years or so.

J.P. Morgan's provision for compensating employees who leave to serve in government — a practice so common on Wall Street that it has become known as the proverbial «revolving door» — has become a point of contention in recent years, not only at the bank but for the industry as a whole.

«I think the main reason the show got so much traction in the first few seasons was the original cast - we all knew each other, and had known each other for 10 years at that point.

From his vantage point of more than 20 years» experience as a business owner and investment adviser, Adams contends that «people in the investment business should run their own companies so they can appreciate profits and the bottom line.»

What's more, as Buffett points out, he's a long - term investor, so looking at the year - to - year investment and return on a given business doesn't make a lot of sense.

So, while Hilton says HHonors's changes match those made by competitors over the past few years, customers who see loyalty points as cash in hand are still indignant.

«People knew for over a year that Kayak was in the IPO process, so there was plenty of time for other people to step in at that point,» says Olson.

So, make it a point to give more unexpected gifts in the coming year by following these tips:

These inflection points change year to year — so be sure you know what's currently fundable.

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

As StatsCan researcher Philip Cross pointed out years ago in a paper on Canada's so - called underground economy, we have become «conveyers of crude and moilers of metals.»

So the next time you're writing your boss an email during a meeting, remember that your cognitive capacity is being diminished to the point that you might as well let an 8 - year - old write it for you.

Matt Yglesias raises an important point here about conservatives who can't abide any increase in tax rates but will entertain raising more tax revenues through reductions of tax expenditures — that cool trillion or so we forgo in tax revenue each year through various favored activities in the tax code, like the mortgage interest deduction or the... Read more

In a move that caught everyone off - guard, Canada Post announced a five point â $ œaction planâ $ last week that included phasing - out home delivery of the mail over the next five years, making Canada the only G7 nation to do so.

As was widely noticed, we also refrained from making the point we have been making for the past year or so about it «being unlikely that there would be no further rises in the course of the expansion».

As for my previously mentioned upper body issues, I am always reminded to keep a heavy tailbone and flat back for good posture, so those issues are long gone and my posture has improved immensely (which was apparently a problem for years before my previous physical therapist pointed it out!)

And so every time the market went up, people piled into that fund, when market went down, they pile out, when the fund outperformed, they piled in, when the fund underperformed they piled out and they took that 18 percent annual gain when the market was flat so that's great on an annualized basis over 10 year period to beat the market by 18 points, but for outside investors, they went in and out so badly that the average investor on a dollar weighted basis lost 11 percent a year and --

The $ 140 or so worth of points I earn a year is $ 40 more than my annual fee, and I also get 6000 points with my annual fee.

At that point annualized returns were lower than the average 7 % so you are already 1 - 2 years behind the curve.

With roughly 175 million gallons of sewage flowing into the city of San Diego, Calif.'s Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant (PLWTP) each day, the Metropolitan Wastewater Department (MWD) had so much excess methane gas that for a number of years... Continue reading →

Case in point: iShares bond ETFs have done so in the past 15 years.

It's a time - consuming process that sometimes takes months or years, depending on your sales cycle, so salespeople should make sure that they're only spending time with prospects whose pain points align with your product's solution.

With so little time left in the year, many wonder whether bitcoin can still break $ 800, a feat that still looks at least marginally possible at one point.

The Fed, however, has been signaling rate increases for quite some time now, so it might be a bit surprising that the markets would adjust that drastically to the recent changes in the 10 - year treasury rate, which has grown by 35 basis points over the past year.

As an example, Middleton points to the dozen or so new menu items that Tim Hortons adds every year — like lasagna and cheesecake donuts.

This point is so important that I am again presenting our 10 - year total return projections for the S&P 500 Index (standard methodology).

They were a real blue chip stock at on point no so many years ago.

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

It is completely appropriate to point fingers of blame at politicians and so - called «economic development agencies» — especially the failed Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. — that were asleep at the switch as the Kraft Heinz food - processing conglomerate prepared to shutter its almost 100 - year - old Oscar Mayer plant in Madison.

So, generally, the biggest deltas are, one, a little bit weaker on the handset side; two, a little more conservative modeling of what happens later in the year than what we had, which frankly is not, again, just to drive that point home, nobody knows how many people are going to buy a new handset when it's launched on the market — not us, not our customers, not analysts, or you name it.

Brands using emojis at this point is like politicians dancing to «Nae Nae» — It's so last year.»