This is especially relevant when we try to establish how smart apes are relative to children.
The lower inflation is, the lower government outlays are relative to what they might otherwise have been.
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These estimates are relative to what people would pay under 2012 tax rules (the current policy baseline).
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The lower liabilities are relative to assets, the greater is the equity cushion.
Siting challenges are relative to the selected screening criteria and values.
Attribute some of the dissatisfaction to what economist Milton Friedman dubbed "Permanent Income Theory, " which assumes that people measure where they are relative to where they expected to be a few years ago.
For instance, when guaranteeing home loans, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, America's giant mortgage companies, could be required to demand higher down-payments as a proportion of the purchase price, the higher house prices are relative to rents.
All of these numbers are relative to the tax rules in place in 2012 with a patched Alternative Minimum Tax and the payroll tax cuts still in place but with the Obamacare tax increases not yet in effect.
Of course, there are significant provisos to get through first -- it's only one machine, running on Apple's drivers, testing mostly Apple applications, and the two systems default to different versions of QuickTime -- but we can still glean some indication of where the two heavyweights are relative to one another.
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The correlation is obvious: When prices are low relative to dividends, subsequent seven-year returns are likely to be high.
In any case, it is important to keep in mind that the net numbers we will be watching for on Friday morning are small relative to the much larger gross gains and losses they are derived from.
Greenblatt's idea: Buy 20 to 30 firms that are cheap relative to earnings per share and have relatively high returns on investment.
On 2-D screens, it's difficult to see where the robots are, relative to other deepwater objects, he says.
It will ultimately come down to how reported earnings and guidance are perceived relative to expectations and sentiment about what is, and is not, already priced into stocks.
They include raising stamp duties by five to seven percentage points, increasing down-payment requirements, and lowering the amount some home buyers are allowed to borrow relative to the value of the property they are purchasing.
Therefore I was anxious to look at my monthly and weekly scan of stocks where they are ranked relative to their upper and lower Starc bands.
However, many do not pay enough attention, in my opinion, to the size of the company and how companies of the same capitalization are doing relative to the broad market.
U.S. stock prices are attractive relative to alternatives like corporate bonds and U.S. Treasuries.
Today, arguments are often trotted out that stocks are cheap relative to forward earnings.
This means that prices are lower relative to rents than they were a year ago.
The ratio also does a better job telling us where valuations are today relative to historic norms.
ETFs are a great deal for investors because the fees are low relative to traditional funds that pay 12b-1 fees.
People are less concerned about absolute levels of wages or standards of living, compared with how they are doing relative to others.
There is quite a mix of patterns with the way there stocks are trading relative to their 50-day and 200-day simple moving averages.
In contrast, stadiums in neighborhoods that are inexpensive relative to the metro area tend to be at least a few miles outside of downtown.
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While those regions are stable relative to some parts of the world, Apache is effectively diversifying and lessening risk through these acquisitions off the Southern US Coast.
Reporting back from the front, the House is Occupied by generally delightful, smart, publicly spirited people who are underpaid relative to the level of responsibility they shoulder.
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Approximately 1, 700 stocks are ranked relative to one another, based heavily on measures of earnings momentum and price momentum, and given a "timeliness" grade of 1-5 (the lower the better).
For de Waal, these experiments complement research showing that people are less concerned about absolute levels of wages or standards of living, compared with how they are doing relative to others.
There is also the potential for positive developments in Europe, Japan and the Middle East. (I know some of these are long shots.) Plus, valuations for large-cap stocks are cheap relative to projected earnings.
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