The idea is to
reduce uncertainty about future income and capital values, but without reducing returns, which is what would happen if you just held more cash.
What that means is that, on average, one or two children in every elementary school classroom in the country is coping with
huge uncertainty about future family stability.
Their model also considered other factors that might affect the decision, like the impact of closing costs,
uncertainty about future interest rates and likelihood of moving to a new home.
Additionally, housing may no longer be viewed as the secure investment it once was thought to be, given
uncertainty about future home prices and the economy more generally.
«The city adopts the Fiscal 2018 budget at a time of
great uncertainty about the future of critical programs and services that help many of our most vulnerable populations,» said Council Member Julissa
(Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope, 23) From Auguste Comte to Karl Marx, philosophers have made repeated efforts to eliminate any profound
uncertainty about the future by placing it within some scheme of inevitability or determinism that might calm our vexation about its destiny.
Despite adverse economic conditions as well as
uncertainty about future Federal energy policy, wind generators continue to represent a significant share of capacity additions in the electric power industry, which totaled 16,409 MW in 2010.
«As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end
uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current law for at least three years,» reads the letter, which was released by the Partnership for New York City.
Those arguments are flawed because, if anything, greater
uncertainty about the future evolution of the climate should compel us to act with even greater urgency than if there were no (or less) uncertainty.
The strong dependence of ecosystem function on moisture balance (Baldocchi and Valentini, 2004), coupled with the greater
uncertainty about future precipitation than about future temperature (Christensen et al., 2007: Section 11.5.3), further expands the range of possible futures for North American ecosystems.
Unconventional monetary policy, macro-prudential regulation, and the lack of any monetary rule have
increased uncertainty about the future of monetary policy and, thus, have had a negative effect on private investment.
However, he added: «The police perform a difficult and dangerous task on behalf of the public and the
continuing uncertainty about the future of many of the bodies involved in policing has the potential to be very damaging.»
It is possible that a large part of the decline in implied volatilities of interest rates can be attributed to reduced
uncertainty about the future path of monetary policy at that turning point.
Sir Michael was also asked how universities could improve the quality of teacher training when there was
such uncertainty about the future of teacher training in higher education — when the government has been shifting the emphasis towards more schools - based training.
Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and
unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve.
Given the potential importance of West Antarctica to future global sea level and our current knowledge of glacier instability, why is there so
much uncertainty about its future?