Alternative indexes have higher risk than market-based indexes and therefore provide a different return path relative to the risk.

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Notice that the effect of sequestration by a multiplier calculation is relative to the path that GDP would otherwise have been on.

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Serving as a psychological canary in the coalmine of your life, warning you to re-evaluate the wisdom inherent in following one particular path relative to alternative ones.

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One can easily debate the relative merits of either path, but the point is largely moot.

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Douglas is in the midst of a path from relative anonymity to superstardom in what seems like no time flat.

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The outcomes will not be evenly distributed, and the path and relative success of people and ideologies and nations is anything but certain.

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Not only does an entrepreneurial path place immigrants in a non-competitive position relative to the existing wage-seeking labor pool, but their ventures that are employer businesses actually create jobs, increasing demand for labor and thereby pushing up wages.

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