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What does it actually matter that the Fed dropped rates 25 or 50 basis points? Ricky Mulvey: What does it actually mean? To me, it is a signal that the risk party might be back on.
[10]: 176–189 The trade-off between the unemployment rate and inflation implied by Phillips thus holds in the short term, but not in the long term. [78] Also the oil crises of the 1970s causing at the same time rising unemployment and rising inflation (i.e. stagflation ) led to a broad recognition by economists that supply shocks could ...
In a 401K the contribution limit for this year, $23,000, but if you'll be 50 or older by the end of the year, you can contribute another 7,500 for an IRA that's 7,000 plus another hundred if you ...
The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature. Surface heating can happen from an internal heat source as in the case of Jupiter, or from its host star as in the case of the Earth.
The word tonga is cognate to the Hawaiian word kona meaning 'leeward', which is the origin of the name for the Kona District in Hawaiʻi. [ 15 ] Tonga became known in the West as the "Friendly Islands" because of the congenial reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773.
By 1944, the U.S. was producing over 1.5 billion barrels (0.24 × 10 ^ 9 m 3; 8.4 × 10 ^ 9 cu ft) a year (67 percent of world production) and the petroleum industry had built 122 new plants for the production of 100-octane aviation gasoline and capacity was over 400,000 barrels (64,000 m 3; 2,200,000 cu ft) a day – an increase of more than ...
A 50% discount is also offered to people who are registered blind or severely visually impaired, [128] and the licence is completely free for any household containing anyone aged 75 or over. However, from August 2020, the licence fee will only be waived if over 75 and receiving pension credit.
The proportion of council housing rose from 42% to 50% of the total, [25] while the number of council homes built increased steadily, from 119,000 in 1964 to 133,000 in 1965 and to 142,000 in 1966, with hundreds of blocks of multi-storey flats (mostly built in the cities and larger towns) being among these.