Quotes About Rate

Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because monetary policy will need to respond to whatever disturbances may buffet the economy.

If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

China became the second biggest economy in the world by pegging their currency to the dollar at an artificially cheap rate.

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion to the population figures.

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections.

Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'

If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.

After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.

Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.

I really do think I can make a contribution in helping eliminate the disparity here in Australia and doing my small bit to help eliminate slavery around the world. These are huge issues for our fellow countrymen and our fellows in the world, where slavery is growing at an alarming rate, and it needs to be arrested.

Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall.

We want to keep a preferred rate for capital gains - we think it is important to encourage investment.

Our whole lives, did any of us actually think a quarter of a percent was actually an interest rate?

Lending rate is a function of both liquidity as well as credit demand.

Once we see stars with three times the metal content of our sun, the planet detection rate goes up to 20 per cent.

The violence in New Orleans is erupting and it's continuing to grow at an alarming rate.

I'm very experienced in four-round fights because of my amateur career, and I've got a high work rate.

Since the time of the Founding Fathers, and since they added the Second Amendment to the Constitution, our guns have developed at a rate that leaves me dizzy.

I enjoyed my time in Germany, I definitely rate the league as it develops well and you have quite a lot of teams that play good football.