Quarter
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In Dutch you say: als je voor een dubbeltje geboren bent wordt je nooit een kwartje (when you are born as a nickel you'll never become a
quarter.
His pant were so tight that he could squeeze 2 dimes and a nickle out of a
quarter.
But piggy banks are for saving, and in the first
quarter
of this year, America’s net domestic saving rate was just 1.5% of national income.
Some Romanian officials, including President Traian Basescu, have bandied about the idea of distributing Romanian passports to as many as a million Moldovan citizens, a
quarter
of the entire population.
Revised data for the US indicate that real GDP grew at an annual pace of 4.1% in the third
quarter
of 2013, while the unemployment rate finally reached 7% in November – the lowest level in five years.
The EU’s trade significance for Iran is huge, accounting for 40% of Iran’s imports and a
quarter
of its exports.
The State of Netherlands, in which a Dutch court ruled, in 2015, that the government must ensure that the country’s emissions are cut by one
quarter
within five years.
For example, in 2001, it took just one
quarter
for output to recover, but 38 months for jobs to come back.
To achieve this leadership position, it needs less than a
quarter
of US per capita GDP, because its population is more than four times larger.
But such accounts still number less than a
quarter
of active M-Pesa users, and M-Shwari still supports only small 30-day loans.
China’s working-age population peaked in 2010; by 2050, more than a
quarter
of its people will be over 65 (today, just 8% are).
In Japan, where a
quarter
of the population is older than 65, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has championed a major effort to bring more women and older workers into the labor market.
But the fact that earnings beat estimates by a penny a share every
quarter
is itself only a sign of quarter-to-quarter manipulations of earnings, not of their wholesale fabrication.
British consumer confidence is down, with spending in the second
quarter
of this year falling to its lowest level in four years.
The value of stocks is almost twice GDP, far more than ever in history and at least a
quarter
higher than at the peak of Japan's bubble a decade ago.
Former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, the world’s leading financial regulator of the past
quarter
century, seemed to have little faith in either regulators or the need for regulation.
Fund managers who are under constant pressure to post profits or defend short-term results cannot afford to invest with entrepreneurs building businesses that are optimized for the next ten years, rather than for the next
quarter.
Yet, in the fourth quarter, growth was down to 2.6%, and initial estimates suggest that overall growth for the year will not surpass 2.3%.
From the third
quarter
of 2009, growth was positive in every quarter, save two.
By 2030, Germany, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands will be the oldest countries, with over one
quarter
of their populations elderly.
In those countries where the problem makes the biggest headlines (the eurozone’s south, with Greece and Spain supposedly the worst cases), youth unemployment accounts for less than a
quarter
of overall unemployment.
By some estimates, China’s growth stalled almost completely in the first
quarter
of this year.
Of course, because China’s population is more than four times larger, its per capita GDP, at $12,900, is still less than a
quarter
of the $54,700 recorded in the US, which highlights America’s much higher living standards.
Growth in inflation-adjusted US personal consumption expenditures has just been revised down to 1.5% in the second
quarter
of 2012, and appears to be on track for a similarly anemic increase in the third
quarter.
From the first
quarter
of 2008 through the second
quarter
of 2012, annualized growth in real consumption spending has averaged a mere 0.7% – all the more extraordinary when compared with the pre-crisis trend of 3.6% in the decade ending in 2007.
And retail spending grew at an annual clip of 10% in the first
quarter.
Credit growth, known in China as “total social financing,” grew at an annual rate of 13% in the fourth
quarter
of 2015 and again in the first
quarter
of this year – that is, double the rate of annual GDP growth.
With nonfinancial corporations’ debt currently standing at 150% of GDP, the book value of the bad loans could be a
quarter
of national income.
It is the average annualized growth of US consumer spending over the past 14 quarters – calculated in inflation-adjusted terms from the first
quarter
of 2008 to the second
quarter
of 2011.
From the first
quarter
of 2008 through the second period of 2009, consumer demand fell for six consecutive quarters at a 2.2% annual rate.
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