Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.
The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the three-month interest rate, but on other interest rates as well.
Our growth rate continues to be staggering.
As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.
But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
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 hi...
Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it'...
Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another...
In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant ma...
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.
No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.
