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At present, ten-year Treasuries offer more than three times the yield on three-month Treasuries.
Historically, flat yield curves have been associated with tight money and high-interest-rate policies.
Fish are more efficient than pork and beef, because they require fewer inputs to yield the same amount of protein.
Connecting kids around the world in shared on-line curricula, and facilitating “social networks” of kids around the world at an early age, will yield far-reaching educational benefits.
For China, rebalancing and slower growth go hand in hand – and yield the additional benefits of less intensive resource demand, a more subdued rise in energy consumption, and related progress in addressing environmental pollution and income inequality.
Meanwhile, prolonged low interest rates contributed to a “chase for yield” in the financial sector that resulted in disregard of credit risk.
For starters, the removal from Syria of the Assad regime’s stockpile of chemical weapons shows that joint efforts can yield positive results.
If a point of true “full investment” – that is, a situation when the supply of capital increased to the point at which it would yield no net return above its replacement cost – were ever reached, it would signify that the human race had solved its economic problem.
On closer inspection, the idea that the market will yield a real 6.9% a year in the future appears suspect.
Adjusted for inflation, interest rates have been falling for three decades, and their current low level encourages investors, searching for yield, to take on additional risk.
Structural concentration of incomes at the top is combining with easy money and a chase for yield, driving equity prices upward.
Such a search for yield will depreciate the exchange rate further – and increase the risk of competitive devaluations that leave no country better off.
This does not require privatization, but rather that assets could yield a reasonable return, freeing more resources than most cities currently have on hand.
After accounting for the market value of municipal assets, the next step toward sound asset management is to understand the yield that a city earns from the revenue and rising market values of its assets.
Using Boston as an example again, let’s cautiously assume that the city could earn a 3% yield on its commercial assets with more professional and politically independent management.
A modest yield of 3% on a portfolio worth $55 billion would amount to an income exceeding its current total revenues, and many times more than Boston’s current capital plan.
Even with a modest yield, Boston could more than double its infrastructure investments.
One type chooses, for non-economic and non-scientific reasons, a political stance and a set of political allies, and twiddles and tunes his or her assumptions until they yield conclusions that fit their stance and please their allies.
The other type takes the carcass of history, throws it into the pot, turns up the heat, and boils it down, hoping that the bones will yield lessons and suggest principles to guide our civilization’s voters, bureaucrats, and politicians as they slouch toward utopia.
It is likely to yield little cushion for employment and income per dollar spent, while servicing the large debt accumulation will impede long-run growth, either by forcing substantial future tax increases or spending cuts, or by forcing central banks to inflate.
Fiscal consolidation was put on hold (although some did occur, owing to the balanced-budget rules of most US states), and monetary policy was geared toward flattening the yield curve.
Sound policies in developing countries, a price for carbon, and risk-sharing and co-financing with MDBs and other national and international institutions can yield private flows that are many times the public resources involved in fostering them.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve’s unusual activism, including an ever-expanding list of experimental measures, will yield fewer benefits and entail growing costs and risks.
The West must not succumb to illusions about redrawing borders or shaping new countries; such efforts will yield only disaster.
Finding a description of gravity that is compatible with our understanding of quantum physics would revolutionize cosmology, yield new insights into the first moments of our universe, and provide a deeper understanding of the theories on which all of modern physics is based.
In January 2001 the then new Premier Ivica Racan faced a sharp choice: swiftly purge state bureaucracies of Tudjman's partisans or yield to the obstructive ploys of HDZ loyalists.
But applying the static, linear, and closed analyses of conventional macroeconomics to open, non-linear, dynamic, and interconnected systems is bound to yield flawed results.
The key will be to capture the oil revenues and invest them wisely, thereby converting below-ground assets into above-ground assets that yield an adequate rate of return and stimulate economic development.
I, for one, yield only to the travel writer Bill Bryson in my passion for English country walks and pubs.
German ten-year bond prices are extremely high, reflecting a current yield of less than 0.5%.
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