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He did better with the sublime Madeline Khan in "Blazing saddles " and curbed the excesses of Gene Wilder in "Young Frankenstein" so perhaps "The Producers" was the start of a sharp learning curve.
One assumes the part was created to afford a little feminine light relief, since the central character is -- inconveniently for the standard narrative curve -- already happily married as a young man when we first meet him, and omits to look elsewhere...
Director Jonathan King is clearly aiming to be the next Peter Jackson, but he has started far behind the curve.
Todd's openness and vulnerability contributed to his steep upward learning curve, and was essential to his success there.
Moreover, the cost curve for health care – a main driver of long-term fiscal deficits – has bent down.
But the Phillips curve fared poorly in the 1970’s, when many countries experienced “stagflation” (high levels of both inflation and unemployment).
This vindicated criticism by Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps, among others, who had already begun to argue that the Phillips curve represented merely a short-term relationship.
As for the price-stability mandate, the oil-price collapse has naturally affected headline figures over the past year, but the trend in core inflation (excluding the energy component) suggests that the Fed is falling behind the curve.
If Yellen and the Fed feel beholden to financial markets, the risk of sharper rate hikes further down the road, as the Fed increasingly falls behind the inflation curve, will rise.
This gives rise to a debt-relief Laffer curve.
Reducing the face value of the debt is good not just for debtor countries on the “wrong side” of the curve; it is also good for creditors, who stand to get more of their money back.
But, while this neat theoretical construct clarifies the problem, figuring out where a country lies on its debt-relief Laffer curve is no easy matter.
The second lesson is that the two slope coefficients in the algebraic equation that is the Phillips curve – the link between expected inflation and current inflation, and the responsiveness of future inflation to current unemployment – are both much smaller than they were back in the 1970s or even in the 1980s.
It has been behind the curve since 2011.
Yet unless the rising curve of annual emissions can be reversed, the CO2 concentration will irrevocably reach a truly threatening level.
The US has been behind the curve from the moment the turmoil sparked, trying to play catch up as two authoritarian governments were toppled by popular protest and more regimes try to cling to power as long as they can.
This has never been more true than today, and if America is not seen as an avid supporter of a two-state solution, it will stay well behind the curve and damage its own interests in the Middle East.
For starters, the same forces that led to an upward shift in the global savings curve will soon enough begin operating in the other direction.
Moreover, these bonds are priced as spreads on the government-bond yield curve, implying that QE will have an immediate impact on enterprises’ financing costs.
But whether the Fed tries to counteract it by raising interest rates more aggressively than its current forecasts imply, or decides to move cautiously, keeping short-term interest rates well behind the rising curve of price growth, bond investors will suffer.
The dollar weakened, in this view, because the Fed fell behind the curve and risked losing control of the inflation process.
Currently, the fear in the markets is not that the Fed is behind the inflation curve but that it will raise interest rates even faster than expected in order to preempt overheating.
In fact, there is an increasingly compelling argument that a forward-looking Fed is actually “behind the curve,” because its policy rate currently is only just equal to the backward-looking core inflation rate.
Part of the segmentation of online markets involves web companies testing price points to estimate precisely the demand curve and its links to household characteristics.
With inflation – both headline and core – now on an accelerating path, Asian central banks can’t afford to slip further behind the curve.
Even Canada, a country that generally welcomes diversity and values human rights, is behind the curve on innovative approaches to refugee health.
First, the relationship between inflation and economic slack – the so-called Phillips curve – has broken down.
Outsourcing via these supply chains dramatically expands the elasticity of the global supply curve, fundamentally altering the concept of slack in labor and product markets, as well as the pressure such slack might put on inflation.
The novel twist today is the ever-expanding global supply curve.
Yet it is crucial to “bending” the sector’s cost curve, because it enables the delivery of quality health care in cost-effective ways.
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