Quotes About Rate

the rate was virtually unchanged from the start of the year.

Our September rate cut drew the usual mix of praise and criticism.

an inflation rate low enough that households and businesses did not take it into account when making economic decisions.

In any case, the funds rate, by itself, is relatively unimportant.

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

Even when safety guidelines and regulations are in place, the rate of chemicals acceptable by law may be far higher than what is genuinely safe.

Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such, the elderly poverty rate could be overstated.

Integral to it is the parallel assumption of gradualism, namely that "the present is the key to the past" and that the rate of change observable today is an accurate guide to rates of change that prevailed in the past.

GPS fleet management system—for companies with more than 350 vehicles, the adoption rate is approaching 60 percent. The worldwide fleet management industry, valued at $12 billion in 2014, is on track to be worth more than $35 billion by 2019

First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.

I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

I think we have to be very careful when we toss around terms like 'cut health care costs.' We would do very well to expect a cut in the rate of increase.

I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax.

En las naciones industrializadas, la tasa actual de muerte materna durante el parto es de 9 mujeres por cada 100.000 partos. Hace solo cien años, la tasa era más de cincuenta veces más alta.

Figure 10-1 shows that the world population growth rate peaked at 2.1 percent a year in 1962, fell to 1.2 percent by 2010, and will probably fall to less than 0.5 percent by 2050 and be close to zero around 2070, when the population is projected to level off and then decline.

States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a quarter of the average death rate of nonstate societies, and less than a tenth of that for the most violent one.

This uneven rate of evolution of different properties of an organism is called mosaic evolution , and it may create difficulties for classification.

If change can be catalyzed by emotion, the rate of change should be astronomical.

In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.

fifteen-year-old stepson, Christian, quite adored them—and his collection was growing at a problematic rate. Christian's

More than a hundred new airlines went into business around this time, although the casualty rate was extremely high: in 1994 alone, fifty-seven new airlines opened for business, of which thirty-seven closed within two years.

I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

I stared at the screen, aware that my heart rate had sped up. Sped up? I was so angry I wanted to ram my fist into the monitor, as if by doing so I could somehow ram it into Paul Slater's rock hard abs. -Suze Simon

Our study of the various methods has led us to suggest a foreshortened and quite simple formula for the valuation of growth stocks, which is intended to produce figures fairly close to those resulting from the more refined mathematical calculations. Our formula is: Value = Current (Normal) Earnings × (8.5 plus twice the expected annual growth rate) The growth figure should be that expected over the next seven to ten years.