The comparison with America aside, the absolute level of interest rates has fallen to unprecedented levels.
An incredibly common mistake made by market participants is to make decisions on the absolute level of an indicator such as employment, profits or sales.
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His point was that policymakers should not be preoccupied with the absolute level of national debt, but instead with our ability to sustain whatever level of debt we have.
Another caveat - surveys of expectations do not all, or don't necessarily measure the absolute level of optimism or pessimism, they just measure how much those levels have changed.
Furthermore, no absolute level of PSA will work.
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According to JP Morgan, the problem is not the absolute price level but the speed of the rise.
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Since what matters is not just the absolute temperature level but the rate of change as well, it makes sense to try to slow down the increase.
The AIG mess, then, is the result of denial about the level of risk, arrogance that the triple A credit rating is an absolute safety belt, greed about compensation that leads to reckless behavior and overall, a level of irrationality that approached insanity.
Rather than give an absolute number for what constitutes a low-level debt, the Zweig strategy looks for debt that is below the average for the company's industry.
Enrollment at the secondary level has grown, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of the student-age population, and attainment rates compare favorably with those of other industrial countries.
You can't be convinced of the absolute proof of the working at a 100% level of any technology.
He points out that the interest bite is only half the level of 20 years ago despite a rise in the absolute size of the debt.
Although the absolute volume of short sales is touching a record high, the confidence level of the short-sellers must be near a record low.
"Jens is someone at the very highest level who knows the difference in standard between mediocrity and the absolute top in the world, " says Maes.
Her stance was backed by the British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK, who said there was no safe level of smoke and that the ban on smoking indoors should be absolute.
Even though their numbers in absolute terms has declined, compared to over 900 instances between April 2006 and November 2007, the level of threats and attacks remain dangerously high.
Rather than craft a test with a dictated and absolute minimum score, creating a relative measure that allows institutions to compete against each other on a level playing field for funds would have been much smarter and aligned to market realities.
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