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In terms of my point about grandad's jalopy, I will defer to Steven Matthews» post «Technology as a pure efficiency driver» above.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the term «unicorn» seemed to get bandied about as if $ 1 billion was the starting point for valuations and not a benchmark of achievement.

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

Instead of worrying about bargaining for a few percentage points off the rate, spend time negotiating the lease's term and thinking about the company's true needs for the future.

In most deals with convertible notes or value - added co-investors who «want into the round» the negotiation re-opens after the term sheet and this is a source of frustration at a point where the founder and the lead investor should be feeling great about each other.

On Wednesday, the Fed raised its key short - term lending rate to a range of 0.50 % - to - 0.75 %, or about two percentage points below where we said it would be.

MT: What I love about Apple Pay — I don't use it in terms of presenting my phone at the point - of - sale — but the cards that I have are on my phone — the transactions can be pulled up right away.

Mortgage rates, which track the movements of long - term Treasury yields, rose by about a percentage point during the summer.

This marks a modest increase since 1999, when 23 % of moms were home with their children, but a long - term decline of about 20 percentage points since the late 1960s when about half of moms were at home.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

Hirschman too became far more pessimistic about long term convergence, and began worrying about the nature of these constraints, even pointing out how misguided optimism itself could lead to highly pro-cyclical policies that reverse the convergence process, in part by encouraging the kinds of inverted balance sheets that I discussed in my blog entry of two weeks ago.

The BofA Merrill Lynch high - yield index is trading at roughly 600 basis points versus government bonds, but if energy, metals and mining is excluded, it's about 80 basis points less in terms of spread.

Those borrowers, who had an average of $ 56,202 in student loan debt outstanding, will realize those savings through interest rate reductions of 1.71 percentage points on average, and shorter loan terms on their new loans (about 5 years on average).

More importantly, executives had encouraging things to say about Sanmina's near - term future, pointing to new initiatives that could help push the company forward more aggressively during the remainder of the fiscal year.

Of course, the point about duration still stands — regardless of what drives returns, long duration means that even small changes to those drivers of return can be amplified into very big changes in prices in the short terOf course, the point about duration still stands — regardless of what drives returns, long duration means that even small changes to those drivers of return can be amplified into very big changes in prices in the short terof what drives returns, long duration means that even small changes to those drivers of return can be amplified into very big changes in prices in the short terof return can be amplified into very big changes in prices in the short term.

In the US, they are up by about 180 basis points since their safe - haven related lows in October last year following the Russian default, the near collapse of Long - Term Capital Management, and subsequent problems in Latin America (Graph 6).

«Part of our Sector Weight thesis longer term has been the view that at some point, investors might start to care that a significant portion... of the company's gross profit pool was no longer growing, and so while investors largely care about Model 3 for the moment, that S / X continue to point toward these trends makes multiple expansion arguments more challenging,» analysts Elliot Arnson and Brad Erickson said in a Wednesday note.

«If I were concerned about anything from a long - term housing market point of view it's the supply of housing in Toronto and Vancouver,» Evan Siddal, the head of the federal housing agency, the Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation, told Reuters.

The point articulated here is admittedly cumbersome, and it might seem out of place to think about the process in terms of the need to pay for «research.»

Despite lots of talk about the bull market nearing its end and signals pointing to a correction in the near - term, stocks were up strongly in 2017 and have continued those gains this year.

Thank you for pointing out that our individual opinions regarding what may or may not have happened at some point in human history about two thousand years ago, that our individual opinions regarding the credibility (or lack thereof) of gospel accounts in terms of their accuracy and historicity, do not trump what actually happened (or didn't happen) in human history about two thousand years ago.

* My point, again, as I understand it in terms of our 1st amendment, and freedom of speech, was to (build in) a «wall» of separation of church and government... (because) of «Christianity,» since you are talking about our country, so as not to have - anyone's freedom of speech and their civil liberties trampled on.

Yet even while it ventures to talk about this man in terms of the God - language of faith, the New Testament does not hesitate to describe this Jesus as a real man and one who points to Him who sent him.

The point is that remarks about the potentially distorting and demonic effects of actions» locatedness do not need to be added extrinsically, as it were, to analyses of human inquiry — here theological inquiry in particular — cast in terms of «action»; such remarks are entailed in the very concept of action.

«In any group of young people there will probably be people who will at some point experience gender dysphoria so a respectful and caring discussion could make all the difference in terms of them feeling accepted, and could help them open up about how they feel,» he says.

the point made about free will [albeit not in those terms] made by Doug [while misusing a word and placing it in incorrect context... which goes to show, a small amount of dross doesn't ruin the whole] is accurate.

Another point about the common tradition that requires note if we are to make progress toward sorting out the relation between authority and office is that, within it, authority is a term that is applied in a proper sense only to persons, either the divine Persons of the Trinity or human persons who act on God's behalf.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

It is the central point in terms of which all other doctrines about God are formulated.

All that Bergson really says is that we can not know disorder without making it into an order of some sort first, and points out that the relation between the «two directions of order» is really a continuum that we distinguish on the basis of its extremes (completely free activity and geometrical mechanism, or integration and differentiation, to use the terms Gunter recommends) for the purposes of talking about this issue.

what's absolutely hilarious about this is that there is literally no point to becoming an Atheist in terms of benefit, what has Atheism ever contributed, maybe you can say the same about religions but i just don't believe your going to «convert» people to Atheism there is no reward, no promise, and no hope, its basically like yea we are all in trouble lets all believe it together, people already know that Atheism doesn't need to tell them, stop destroyed people's hope

man oh man, you are all missing the point of life on lifes terms and being alive vs. just living.seems like everyone has the need to be right about their way of thinking, which by the way is where we ALL get into trouble.

One of the important points about the new spirituality is how to read the biblical materials in terms of a dominant concern of our times namely the removal of present oppressive structures.

Is this any more than a rather romantic way of pointing to the traditional difficulty of speaking about the holy God in human terms?

Using examples from mythology, Scripture, theology, and philosophy, Rollins shows how mankind has long been interested in speaking of God in these terms, to the point that «instead of thinking about our understanding of God as a poetic utterance arising from an encounter with God, it was thought that our understanding of God directly matched up with the very nature of God.

DE: If you are talking about sense - awareness, as he does far more in The Concept of Nature than in The Principles of Natural Knowledge, which is more abstract, then you are talking in terms of durations, where you have points from which you are aware.

With all due respect, though, I find your second point about a relational God to be somewhat unsatisfactory because it is limited to four - dimensional terms of time and space.

And if «postliberal» Christians accept Rahner's main point about religious pluralism, even if they reject his terms and theological defense of it, can they still be so comfortable about their satisfaction with Christian particularity?

What irked Macintosh was that Wieman talked about God as «the growth of meaning and value in the world» and saw no evidence pointing to God as a person; Wieman thought that Macintosh, though starting with empirical evidence, proceeded to interpret God in terms of human wishes rather than in terms of the facts.

«I saw a lot of this in the submissions... this moment in time is that pivotal point in which sustainability and e-commerce are coming together [with] people looking to reduce use of materials and thinking about innovation in terms of e-commerce.»

I don't think he's better than Theo, certainly not in terms of finishing, maybe better with the pass but not a fast, he's certainly not better than the Ox, ability or mentality, not better than Ozil, I just don't see the point of signing him, especially if every time he is about to sign a new deal we get all this rubbish.

Every club still has needs at this point, some more glaring than others: Tottenham won't stop going on about the lack of a left winger, Arsenal can't finish and still miss Vieira's presence, Manchester United need a long term partner for Michael Carrick and Newcastle need someone who isn't a 40 year old Nigerian.

In terms of known knowns, however, letting Ohio State go up 21 points in the first place told us as much about Nebraska as their comeback did.

The only negative thing that has been said about Giroud this term was his celebration when levelling the scores after being 3 - 0 down to Bournemouth in the Premier League, when the team should have been chasing that fourth and winning goal, but the sheer emotion of earning at least the point from such a deficit would have been hard to contain.

Well there is nothing that we or Arsene Wenger can do about that other than to get on with things and try to ensure that it does not damage us in terms of Premier League points this weekend.

If you think about their fixture, they had a difficult start to the season, I mean they played against Everton and managed to beat them 6:3 on their home, they played City at the Etihad and they managed to take a point and they also played against Arsenal and took three points.So in terms of fixture it is the same as Arsenal.

scholes is looking out for England he sees what most see unlike most fans on here his not ignorant of wheelchair's short comings as his short history point out other wise it may be a case of the more things change the more there stay the same for willchair and 22 is not young in footballing term 9 to 19 is young and where potential should only be talked about in terms of whether or not a player will be good or great to complement a group / squad.

This is 100 % wrong, we are third in terms of injuries this season; last season we ended as 1st by a mile with 289 injuries (1 player out for 1 weeks = 1 point)(about 80 extra weeks of injuries more than # 2).

Less sure about Auba but I like him too in terms of finishing ability... Anyway there's no point talking about him this season as he has been quoted to be biding his time for a transfer to RM.

I guess not.Olivier Giroud is an ordinary player and please lets forget about his stats for a moment.What's so special about him?I for one think he's good enough for only midtable clubs and I doubt even a team like Everton will like to use him as a first choice cf.What people don't know here is that if Arsenal had a manger who was ruthless in terms of management Giroud would not have been an arsenal player by now or would nt be getting many games.I'm not here to insult him or to point figures or anything.But hey why don't you guys for once accept that he's an average player.I just don't get it.Why can't you guys accept that?