Sentences with phrase «very average years»

The French international moved to St James» Park after two very average years at Man United only to lose his first team place to rejuvenated winger Hatem Ben Arfa.

Was another very average year for me as a PS4 owner.

Not exact matches

When I look at what's happened to Canadian manufacturing over the past five, 10 years, I would say a big concern is the fact that the average manufacturer has one big customer — the United States — and it hasn't been doing very well.

By far, the oddest thing about Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns, a portion of which was published by The New York Times on Saturday, is not the massive $ 916 million loss — some 9,385 times as large as what was taken by the average filer who claimed a similar loss — but this: 1995 was actually a very good year for Trump, perhaps one of the best of his career.

The non-partisan Tax Policy Center has analyzed both candidates» tax plans and concluded that Trump's will cut personal taxes for everyone, with the very top earners — more than $ 699,000 a year — seeing average annual tax reductions of about $ 215,000.

«If you invested in a very low - cost index fund — where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90 percent of people who start investing at the same time,» Buffett said at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

During the first part of 2008, this average declined very slowly, but then fell off a cliff in the last couple of months of the year to a low of just over 110,000 vehicles in December.

But once I got over that, I was able to go from a kid at 18 years old that was always like a very average, underperforming student and then fast forward almost to the day 18 years later, I flew in space for the first time.

A few years ago, Microsoft did some research into this problem and found that people spend on average 5.6 hours each week in meetings, and that 71 percent of American employees reported that these meetings «aren't very productive.»

I would say a good above average measure would be 15k or less in total debt (combined student and car loans), makes $ 60,000 a year starting out (mostly engineers; average BS starting salary in most feilds is 30 - 40,000, so 60k is very good).

Only 35 percent of HR professionals rated their organization's bench strength — the supply to fill critical leadership positions over the next three years — at any level of strength (slightly strong, strong, or very strong) and, on average, only 43 percent of positions could be filled by an internal candidate immediately.

I also believe saving $ 5,000 - $ 15,000 a year in after - tax income is very realistic for the above average person, and probably very easy for many who earn more than $ 85,000 per person.

Indeed, the very large moves in those years mean that simply comparing the average March vs. February change is somewhat naive and biased.

With India having imported a phenomenal 525 metric tons in the first half of 2017 alone, Teves writes that «we expect gold demand in India this year to be around historic averages,» which would be very supportive for prices.

If a franchisor claims that its franchisees earn an average income of $ 75,000 a year, that tells you very little about how individual franchises performed.

In other words, the average consumer is hardly using the system and 2015 may very well be a make - or - break year.

Survey measures of business confidence have lifted from the very low levels seen at the beginning of the year to be close to their long - run average.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

Though we don't use the Coppock indicator in its popular form, the 29 signals in this measure since 1900 have been associated, on average, with market returns of 19.6 % over the following year, and only 3 yearly losses among those signals (one because of the entry into World War II, and the others because the signals were driven by the reversal of a very weakly negative reading, as was the case for the latest signal).

With a 3 - years average around 8 % this looks very good!

The former term refers to the fact that stocks on average tend to perform significantly worse in the summer months than in the winter months, the latter term describes the typically very strong advance in stocks just before the turn of the year.

«The kind of departments are very similar to our members, the average age is 30 to 35 years old, everyone wants to create life's work... We're saying we're keeping a close eye on it, there's definitely a cap — no question there's a cap.»

Our best estimate is that potential output will rise by an average of 1 1/2 per cent per year over the next few years — that is not very impressive relative to history.2 We are counting on gains in productivity to deliver fully two - thirds of that growth.

«Over the past 25 years, accounts that we manage have achieved average annual returns of very close to 19 %»

Due to my very average expectations ever since senior year in college, I'm easily satisfied with what I have.

US large - cap stocks returned more than 9 percent in the first half of 2017, the most since 2013, and although prices are close to all - time highs, analysts are of the opinion that valuations are not very expensive for a majority of these stocks, as stronger earnings upped the price - to - earnings ratio, which has generally remained above average for quite a few years.

In fact, even a several - year span can be misleading, as a manager may be able to achieve above - average results by owning very high - risk stocks in a generally rising market but be virtually wiped out in the same class of stocks in a bear market.

Property management is usually very quiet as my turnover average is once every 2.5 years.

Diversification strategies appeared to have «worked» during the golden years of the 1980s and 1990s, simply because US stock markets were returning 17 % to 18 % every year on average during those two decades and Stevie Wonder could have pointed to a bunch of stocks from a newspaper listing the components of the US S&P 500 during that period and likely would have fared very well.

Even though the industry is only four years old, the top 10 bitcoin casinos have processed a combined 27 billion bets (most of these are very small bets; average size is about 5 cents).

In fact, they are very close to the all - time historic low that occurred in November 2012 (when the 30 - year average fell to 3.31 %).

Still, they are an option; the average hedge fund return in 2008, a very difficult year for the market, was -18.65 % compared to -37 % for the S&P 500.

The company's cash flow is a better metric to use for profit and valuation, and investors are paying much less for cash flow now (even though it's very likely to rise considerably in the near term) than they've been paying, on average, for the last three years.

However, State Farm was also very affordable, at an average of $ 124 per year.

Business centres are turning the very idea of the office upside down, and their model is proving very attractive, with growth in customers averaging 28 % each year between 2013 and 2016.

That compares very favorably to both the broader market and the stock's own five - year average P / E ratio of 27.0, but the latter metric shouldn't really be considered due to numerous adjustments.

That means if you take a very long term moving average, that that moving average over 10 years, because it's not increasing over time, you take the average of that, the average is gonna be a lot lower than the current earnings on average.

The only significant problem is that the maximum CPP benefit is very modest, just $ 1092.80 per month, and the average benefit is less than one half of that amount due to years of earnings below the maximum amount and years spent outside of the paid workforce.

I learned that one of the funds I had significant money in was taking 2 % per year, a very high fee relative to the average.

Dr. Lacy Hunt: If you calculate the average growth rate in the expansions since 1790, this is a long - running expansion, but it's the slowest and in the last 10 years the household sector lagged very, very badly.

Their consolidation loans usually have a three year term, and their average APR of 7 - 13.5 % is very reasonable.

But emotionally and behaviorally, you know, we're totally fine if the dollar - cost averaging over the next amount of months, or even quarters, even years, if that keeps you from hindsight bias and doing something, you know, stupid,» because a lot of people become very emotionally wedded.

Their consolidation loans frequently have a three year term, and their average APR of 7 - 13.5 % is very reasonable.

This was broadly in line with average quarterly issuance in 2004, but below the very strong issuance seen in the first quarter of last year.

This, in spite of crude - oil prices averaging about $ 43 per barrel during the year, which is very close to all - time lows for the commodity.

They also tend to be very safe investments, with an average of 0.03 percent defaults over the past five years, according to research from Moody's.

Overall, despite these regional divergences, the world economy has expanded at above - average rates over the past few years providing a very favourable backdrop to the Australian economy.

So market returns over a small number of years can experience enormous swings, but average annual returns appear much more stable when we examine a very long investment horizon.

On a very basic level, as a sort of cultural trend, weddings themselves are becoming smaller and smaller affairs: They are increasingly getting cheaper and people are inviting fewer guests (in 2009, 149 came to the average American wedding; last year, that number fell to 141).