• And it does it all without an exchange-rate graph in sight.

    ECONOMIST: Economics

  • They found that it made sense to buy long bonds in almost all interest-rate scenarios but one: when rates are low (so the risk that they will revert to the mean, thus undercutting the value of the bond, is high) and the yield curve a line drawn through the interest rates on government securities with different maturities is flat (so there is little extra reward for taking that risk).

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • But this is not to say that either version of the fix-at-all-costs approach resolves the dilemmas inherent in the choice of exchange-rate regime.

    ECONOMIST: No more peso?

  • All the actors involved turn in first-rate performances, but much of the success of the film depends on the believability of Allen's character as she discovers passion and dares to be different.

    CNN: Review: 'Pleasantville' more than pleasant -- it's brilliant

  • Our gross domestic product -- the sum total of all that our economy produces -- fell at the fastest rate in a quarter century.

    WHITEHOUSE: Job Creation and Economic Growth

  • The U.K. 10-year bond yielded all of 1.68% in mid-August 2012, well below the rate of consumer price increases.

    FORBES: Mr. Market Will Get His Pound Of Flesh...And Then Some

  • The club also has the Rocky Mountain region all to itself and a first-rate facility in Coors Field, which opened in 1995.

    FORBES: Sports Business

  • While all banks will suffer in a Greek-like interest rate environment, smaller banks and thrifts are least prepared for the economic doomsday scenario.

    FORBES: Bank Rate Bomb Will Destroy the Smallest and Weakest

  • BBC, the harder it becomes to justify the flat-rate licence fee (in all but name, a regressive tax) levied on all the country's television owners to pay for the corporation.

    ECONOMIST: Digital follies

  • Homeownership rate is at an all-time high in America.

    NPR: Transcript of Second Bush-Kerry Debate

  • The report also cited an accompanying decline in poverty, saying that between 1996 and 2000, 5.4 million fewer Americans were in poverty -- with the poverty rate for all individuals falling from 13.7 percent to 11.3 percent.

    CNN: Bush pushes stricter welfare work rules

  • The before and after parties were lavish, the course in exceptional condition, and all the handling was absolutely first-rate.

    FORBES: Love Golf? You Need To Play In a Pro-Am ASAP

  • Our lending rate is the lowest in India, on an all-cost inclusive basis. we lend at 26.5% reducing balance and there are absolutely no other charges.

    FORBES: Microfinance Or Loan Sharks? Grameen Bank And SKS Fight It Out

  • His push comes as investors of all stripes have hungered for higher-yielding investments in a low-interest-rate environment and have pursued creative variations of financial products that can generate yield.

    WSJ: Einhorn Presses Case Against Apple

  • The FOMC members, who were unanimous in their verdict, took the view that the interest-rate cuts made last year 11 in all, between January and December should be enough to deliver a continuing improvement in the business climate in the next few months.

    ECONOMIST: Greenspan keeps his nerve | The

  • Mr MacAskill retorted that crime in Scotland was now at its lowest level in 35 years, the clear-up rate for all recorded crimes was at its highest level for over 30 years and that the risk of being a victim of crime in Scotland is lower than in England and Wales.

    BBC: Scottish Labour: Justice debate

  • In April, fully one-half of all new mortgages were variable-rate the highest total on record.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • It was a response to the country's growing divorce rate, which hit an all-time high of 50% in 2006 - indeed, 66% of marriages in Vienna end in divorce.

    BBC: Opening the doors on divorce

  • What should matter, in the view of most economists, is what all this means for our rate of growth and our national income per head - in other words, what should matter is how our relationship with the EU is likely to affect our national prosperity.

    BBC: EU costs and benefits: an impossible balancing act

  • For example, when former President George W. Bush lowered the maximum long-term capital gains tax rate to 15% in 2003, all gains generated prior to May 6, 2003 were subject to a 20% rate, with all gains derived after that date taxed at the lower 15% maximum.

    FORBES: Business Owners Could Find Their Tax Deferral Backfiring

  • But many families can wring even more tax savings from a 529 by investing it all along in taxable bonds--whose interest would otherwise be taxed at a federal rate of up to 40% (including the effect of an itemized deduction clawback)--and holding index funds or individual stocks in their taxable accounts, says Yale School of Management professor Matthew Spiegel.

    FORBES: Early Decision

  • And with financing rates at near record lows, automakers should continue to build showroom traffic with cut-rate loans and affordable lease deals throughout 2012 on all but the most in-demand models.

    FORBES: Best New-Car Deals For January

  • "At the root of the euro upheaval is a balance of payment crisis caused by the cumulative effects of a 13-year-old one-size-fits-all monetary policy and a fixed exchange rate for a collection of disparate countries in very different stages of economic and structural development, " he argues.

    WSJ: Fiction of the EU Summit's Accepted 'Facts'

  • At the same time, the monthly personal savings rate scratched an all-time low, a negative 0.2% in July.

    FORBES: Busted

  • These principles were in place all the way through the LIBOR scandal, the mis-selling and interest rate swaps.

    FORBES: Is Barclays Going To Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is On Performance Incentives?

  • It is curable in almost all who are treated, but the rate of recovery from multi-drug-resistance is far lower, although studies vary widely.

    WSJ: Tuberculosis Strain in Mumbai Doesn't Respond to Main Treatment

  • In particular, mortgages to prime borrowers and fixed-rate mortgages to all classes of borrowers continue to perform well, with low rates of delinquency.

    NPR: Bernanke: U.S. Growth 'Moderate' as Inflation Rises

  • The move up in yields will be substantial enough over the next few years that all interest-rate sensitive securities will be affected (utilities, preferred stock, etc).

    FORBES: Is PIMCO's Bill Gross Right About Bonds?

  • Even if it were to remain in place over the entire coming decade (as all large-number commentaries unrealistically assume), it would only reduce the rate of growth in future spending, not cut spending.

    FORBES: Why The Fiscal 'Sequester' Scheme Is Actually Bullish

  • Banks can deposit all kinds of collateral with euro-area central banks in return for cash without paying a penalty rate, while, until the latest joint operation, the Fed still demanded a penalty rate as did the Bank of England, which also accepted only high-quality collateral.

    ECONOMIST: The ECB dishes out ��350 billion

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